Maryland chooses Alabama OC Mike Locksley as new coach

Yes, please keep trying until he is gone from Michigan. 

He was their OC before Durkin was hired. Also probably the best recruiter Maryland has ever had. Maryland did not hire Locksley because of his success at Bama.

Aside from that, how was the guy who was the interim HC all season an odd candidate? The only one who seemed an unlikely choice was Pep. 

Locksley was an obvious choice for them. A. He's been at Maryland before and went to Towson. He's going to recruit the hell out of the DMV. B. He learned under Brian Daboll, who is now back in the NFL, last year at Bama, and yes, was the coordinator of their elite offense this year. Yes, he is largely responsible for Bama's offense going from mid-20s in S&P (where ours is now) to top 10. 

He's as good a hire as Maryland could get, IMO.

 These are the kind of diagnostic skills that make you the physician of choice around here. 

Got to believe there are a few egos bruised over the Day hire. There are some seasoned coaches on that staff. Wouldn’t surprise me to see a few jump ship including schiano. 

Locksley and Johnson would dominate dmv recruiting. If he learned to coach a lick from saban this could be a great hire for md 

That actually makes sense.  He left PSU because he was passed over and took a lateral to tOSU with AHC title added.  DC would be a promotion to a position he always wanted,he's from the DC area, and still recruits there.

Wouldn't you say he already went through his rehab at Maryland from 2012-2015?

His time at New Mexico probably already cost him the HC job once. Ironic that it was Durkin who was hired instead. 

I like Canada and he obviously had success against OSU this year but I think we need someone more passing-oriented to replace our passing game coordinator

Go figure.

That everything is the offense's fault, always. The OC is the worst person in Ann Arbor at all times, and the backup QB is the best. Pep is screwing the program, and only Dylan McCaffrey can save it by killing Pep and Shea with a single bullet.

I have mixed feelings. We ended up with 39 against OSU like you said which before the game we all would have taken in a heart beat. A lot of those points came late when the game was seemingly over, but if the D could have stopped a nose bleed we were always in striking distance to make it a game. The loss to OSU to me is on the D and Brown.

That being said the inability to finish drives and score early on when the game was still close was an issue. As was the continued insistence to run Higdon up the gut on first and second down getting 1 yard a carry, putting us in 3rd and long. There was seemingly nothing creative saved for OSU and no wrinkles to try and get an undisciplined OSU D out of position.

He's the OC and play caller so that's all on him. But he's also an extension of Harbaugh. He may be the play caller, but he's calling the plays Harbaugh's approved. The idea that we'll fire Pep and get a guy like Kingsbury or Canada seems like a pipe dream to me. Harbaugh doesn't want to run those offenses, so he's not going to hire those guys. Pep's an issue, but he's a symptom and not the main problem. If a major change is going to come offensively it will because Harbaugh is going to accept a change in scheme, which seems unlikely.

* I personally don't think a major change in scheme is necessary. Like you said, we scored 39 against OSU. If we have any sort of defense that offense is good enough to be in the playoffs right now. And this was a young offense too. If we brought back Pepe and changed nothing, we'd still have some very frustrating offensive playcalls, but we'd probably end with a top 10/15 offense IMO.