Maryland to fire Edsall
It looks like Maryland will fire Edsall going into the Bye week after Ohio State. Maybe the players will send him out with a bang and upset OSU, or they'll lose by 50. It'll be interesting to see who they target as their next coach.
Link:http://maryland.247sports.com/Article/BREAKING-Maryland-to-Fire-Randy-Edsall-40044257
October 8th, 2015 at 12:51 PM ^
Yeah, let's look at the pros & cons here:
Pros of adding Rutgers:
- Better chance of landing elite NJ recruits like Jabrill Peppers, Ahmir Mitchell, and Rashan Gary
- Probable easy W on conference schedule every season
- Road game within rubber-band-shooting distance of NYC every other year
Cons of adding Rutgers:
- Strength of schedule metric ticks down
- Can no longer make fun of Sparty for being the most felonious B1G team
- Do not have a free spot with which to add a more attractive 14th team
Personally, since I dig the NJ recruiting and to me the most important factor is "if I attend a road game against this opponent, where will I be," I don't mind the Rutgers addition at all. But I can see how others might disagree.
October 8th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
You forgot Con: We have to play Rutgers in football every year. EVERY year.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
With Under Armour money they will be able to go after a true top-flight head coach. Let's see if it's an appealing enough job for one to take it.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
#chipkelly4terps
October 8th, 2015 at 11:17 AM ^
Edsall's downfall reminds me of Remember the Titans. Sometimes you just cannot get everybody on the same page.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:17 AM ^
He's from the Northeast, he can do whatever he wants, they have a big apparel booster that might be willing to spend money on hi,.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
Maryland, Crab Cakes and Football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 8th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
There are some attactive things about the position. Lots of talent on the east coast, Under Armour, new facilities. They could either hit a home run or hit another Edsall. I'm hoping for another Edsall. The Big Ten East is strong enough.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:38 PM ^
The Big Ten East is a killer for them though. They could be a quality team and finish fifth every year. The locals have decided in their own minds that they are above that. Their expectations are misaligned with reality.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
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October 8th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
leaves Mich St and Penn St continues to flounder, I could see Maryland challenge for 3rd place in the division. It wasn't that long ago that Mich St was a tire fire. If Mark Hollis leaves Mich St, Dantonio has another health event and there's not a ready-built replacement in the wings, Michigan St could easily drop back down in quality.
October 8th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
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October 8th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
Makes for an interesting comparison with Nebraska. Like MD, Nebraska fans seem to think the way things went in the 90s (with TWO national championships) should be their norm--hence their dissatisfaction with Pelini. Given their past success it's at least understandable why they would feel that way, but the difficulties of recruiting in that area of the country are pretty difficult to overcome.
October 9th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
I don't think the "locals" give a shit, frankly. They care more about the men's soccer program than this football team. (That's a stretch, but I can gaurantee it is the case for basketball.) The women's basketball team is routinely featured on the local news (in the 8th biggest tv market). There hasn't been any buzz around this football program since the early Friedgen years.
The Bobby Ross era had some sizzle and folks here probably don't remember that MD and Clemson routinely battled it out for the ACC title through most of the 70s and 80s. But after Ross, the program suffered through a very long period of mediocrity. Friedgen started rebuilding but his last three seasons were erratic and he absolutely lost the boosters at some point.
But I don't know any MD fans who have this elevated self-worth of which you speak.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
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October 8th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
If Kelly wants to go back to college, he can do better than Maryland. Texas would drop Strong in a heartbeat to get him.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:42 AM ^
October 8th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
If I'm Chip Kelly, there's probably no worse spot for me than to ride a clunker like Maryland into the same division where Dantonio, Meyer and Harbaugh are (hopefully) already in full stride.
Getting housed 3 times a year minimum seems like a bad way to build. I'd follow the RichRod (Arizona) formula. Go somewhere warm and attractive and out-spread some cupcakes.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^
If he wants to continue living in a major city, Maryland is a perfect spot for him. Texas isn't firing Strong and South Carolina is in just as bad a spot as Maryland without the leeway for him to build or the money. If Kelly wants to live in a city near where he's from, Maryland's it. Maryland is basically the Arizona of the Big Ten and Arizona is probably in the toughest division on college football.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
If he wants to go to the Northeast, he should go to Boston College.
October 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
As a closet BC fan, I would LOVE for Kelly to fail in the NFL and come back to college at BC.
October 8th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
I can't say I'd hate it either, cuz if I'm still in Boston, I'd consider getting season tickets. Why wouldn't I want to see a highly entertaining Chip Kelly team?
October 8th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
Don't know why anyone would think Maryland has a lot of money to throw at a big name coach. Their AD has had severe budget problems for years. They would need UA to pay him.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^
The Rich Rod formula's days are numbered. He's looking at getting housed 3 times a year minimum too with a recovering USC, a resurgent UCLA, and Utah stepping up. And then ASU is always going to play them tough too. The only thing he has going for him is the AZ fanbase expectations are not out of line like Maryland's are . . . yet.
October 8th, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
(removing the "edge" off the post - sorry!)
I'm just saying the Big Ten East is probably one of the toughest divisions in football. I don't know why a coach would take a dogsh** program like Maryland and drive his coaching career off into 4th place obscurity.
Arizona's division is having a good year, but Utah is 19-18 the 3 years prior to this year's hot start. And USC under anyone since Carroll has been a roller coster of middling success. UCLA's been pretty good under Mora, but they haven't been any better than the friggin' Alamo Bowl.
None of these programs have been nearly as good as MSU - and MSU hasn't been as good as OSU, and all of us feel Harbaugh has the ability to trump them all.
There's going to be "competition" everywhere. I'm just saying I probably wouldn't voluntarily take over a perennial doormat and march into the same division as (again, hopefully) 3 of the hottest college football programs in the nation.
Hell, he can probably take Oregon back in a few months. Or Miami when they fire Golden. You're Chip Kelly and you'd rather take over Maryland than Miami? And recruit to South Beach and try to topple a division currently being run by Duke Football? Or Texas, or even wait for Nebraska, or take your pick of which SEC team opens up next (Arkansas? Tennessee? Auburn? South Carolina?)
If you want to take on a tough division, at least take a program that has a pulse.
(sigh)
Friggin' Maryland.
October 9th, 2015 at 9:57 AM ^
I had a booster/donor guy float this today. Guy is plugged in, but he also might just be helping float rumors. Though, it was on a text group with other dialed in MD guys, so... Maybe?
October 8th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
Wasn't Edsall decent at UConn? (He was at UConn, right?)
I wonder who lands at Maryland.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
Hopefully OSU's newer DC who actually knows how to do his job unlike Fickell.
It could actually be a good job if you get a good coach. By the way I wonder if this impacts Haskins at QB - he is one of the top Qbs in the country and shocked many by going to MD. Would look great in Maize and Blue. ;) Unfort OSu was his 2nd choice so if this pushes him to flip to OSU that would suck.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/tracking-the-terps/bal-dwayne-…
October 8th, 2015 at 11:25 AM ^
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October 8th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
Yeah. Maybe not the greatest tenure (10-2, 11-3, 10-3, 5-6, 5-6, 9-4, 6-7, 8-5, 2-10, 9-4) but I don't see the Terps as a football school.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:56 AM ^
I think that is pretty good for Maryland. Six of the nine years with 8+ wins? Solid.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
Yeah, that's even better than I thought it was, and I always thought it was too good for those asswipes to begin with.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
have guessed Michigan State, just scrambled out of chronological order.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^
October 8th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
That's what I recall, I remember being confused as to why he would leave UConn when it seemed like he may be building something.
Weird that Maryland passed by Leach and Rodriguez (though I don't know the timing, exactly, of the search and everything).
October 8th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^
and the UA founder who's a Maryland alum wanted Leach since they had formed a relationship from Leach's Texas Tech days (TT was an early adopter of UA's football equipment / uniform package). Maryland's administration scuttled the idea because Leach was still in the afterglow of the scandal with the Son of the Guy Who Allegedy Killed Five Hookers at SMU and thought he was toxic.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
There was much grumbling about that team going to the Fiesta Bowl because they were unranked. But BCS rules stated they HAD to accept a Big East team so UConn went.
Stat wise, Michigan had their worst defense in school history that year and we still held UConn to 10 points. Although I do remember them losing a fumble from the 6 in that game.
But your overall point is still right. Edsall got that program from 4-7 to a consistent 8-5 every year with a 9-4 year in-between.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
He was ok. Only two winning Big East seasons in seven seasons. Granted, that was only four years after transitioning to FBS. Only got a couple non-conference wins of note (bad Notre Dame and South Carolina teams). Only beat one ranked opponent while at UConn (a USF team that climed to #2 before dropping three straight and ultimately finishing out of the polls).
I would guess that he left UConn because he felt like he was a good coach and the best he could do at UConn was beat the teams he was supposed to beat but never be talented enough to really do anything special. Turns out, he just wasn't a very good coach.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
Hire a MAC coach! Great results.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
Delaney probably wasn't sure about adding Maryland to the conference since they made a move to hire a good mid-major coach. I'm sure he's coaching the Maryland AD right now to see how promising Toledo looks this year
October 8th, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^
October 8th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
Randy Edsall reviews Falling Down: "Great movie. I mean, I'd be angry like that too if I got laid o...wait, what's that...since when?"
October 8th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
Michael Douglas' character pretends he's still going to work each day after he's laid off and then becomes a candidate for your next serial shooting incident.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
October 8th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
he left at a time when the Big East as a conference was crumbling and UCONN was left without anywhere to go.
I'm sure he saw leaving for an ACC, soon to be Big Ten school as an upward move.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:22 AM ^
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October 8th, 2015 at 11:22 AM ^
October 8th, 2015 at 11:25 AM ^
He's been a great recruiter in the Big Ten. If things turn around a bit, my money's on him, despite his failure in New Mexico.
October 8th, 2015 at 11:29 AM ^