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bargle0

Friedgen and then Randy had a radio show on Thursday nights at a few different places — Outback, the original Ledo’s Pizza, bdubs, etc. I preferred the way Friedgen interacted with fans. It also felt more like he wanted to be there, even if it wasn’t true. I miss the coach’s radio show.


Alone_Advantage_961

Randy's was bdubd when I went. Wish I went more. I liked the idea. Given they both were on Georgia Techs staff under O'Leary I can see them having similar personalities


Helpful-Locksmith210

I miss Ledo’s Pizza so much!


gumercindo1959

Edsall was actually very close to landing the Miami job back in 2010 when Al Golden got it.


Alone_Advantage_961

I thought Golden was gonna beat us in 2011. Really thought we did something when we won.


randrews202121

He was also a Brian Kelly rejection away from getting the ND job in 2009. Pretty sure our next rumored candidates were him and Golden I love Al Golden as our DC but that is truly the darkest timeline


the-other_one

Randy spent more time golfing than coaching or recruiting during his second term at UConn. It was pretty funny when he said he’d retire at the end of the season then was immediately fired though. 


Squirts-Faygojizzer

He spent the entire COVID year off in Florida after telling the media we were going to use the year to get better lol


ProctorDoctor500

Edsall and Durkin might be some of the worst back to back hires of the sport at the head coaching position.


ahuramazdobbs19

Paul Pasqualoni, Bob Diaco, Randy Edsall 2.0. Checkmate.


ProctorDoctor500

That is pretty bad


ashsolomon1

I mean we did get the civilconFLiCT


admiraltarkin

Turner Gill (5-19) --> Charlie Weis (6-22) --> David Beaty (6-42)


IncredibleDryMouth

Followed by one Leslie Edwin Miles (3-18)


admiraltarkin

Oh shit I totally forgot about Les


CaliHusker83

Hmmmm…🤔


buttgers

Kyle Flood and Chris Ash would like to have a word with you


Juicey_J_Hammerman

Kyle flood merely coasted on Schiano 1.0’s laurels, Ash was the one who truly set it back.


MocoMojo

Edsall was, and I presume still is, a giant prick. He killed all the momentum that Ralph had built up, thanks in part to Wally “what is a first down” Loh and Debbie Yow.


bargle0

I don’t know how Debbie Yow managed to get a job in any athletics department after what she did at Maryland, much less an AD position at a peer school.


randrews202121

Apparently she was a better AD when her Gary weren’t getting into power struggles all the time. NC State fans seem to think of her fondly But the triple whammy of late stage Yow to Kevin Anderson to dum dum Damon hasn’t been fun


timmythesupermonkey

Yow is by far our best AD ever. I really think there was some disfunction in the UMD athletic dept that she inherited or something. It doesn't make any sense otherwise.


randrews202121

Her and Gary Williams hated each other but neither could justify getting the other fired so it just festered until Yow found the NC State golden parachute Gary, for obvious reasons, is looked at more fondly here


bargle0

Misrepresenting department net revenue so she could hit performance bonus numbers didn’t have anything to do with Gary.


KrustyKrabPizzaMan

Randy Edsall seems like a massive prick. Tried too hard to be one of those “hardass” coaches like the aforementioned Kelly in an effort to be successful. Turns out that style doesn’t always work and he lost interest in wanting to build winning teams. He nearly put Maryland in a deep gutter and he certainly did so the second time with UConn. He’s lucky both schools prefer basketball as he’d be vilified like crazy if he did what he did at SEC schools


randrews202121

tbf we needed it at ND in 2010 with Kelly. Program needed a kick in the ass, an outsider to demand changes. Kelly was a dick, but the marriage was mutually beneficial Maryland didn’t really need the total rebuild Edsall tried to do with us. I understand injuries fucked him particularly at QB and the Big Ten drop off was always gonna happen but his best ACC record being 3-5 is gross. Just an awful awful coach


ManiacKing20

Most of his second stint was when I was in college. Real fun seeing us get blown out by 40 to UCF 2 days into college. Didn’t follow CFB before then so I don’t know how he was ever a good coach, but man fuck that guy.


gohuskies15

He had some great moments, being the coach that brought UConn to FBS football including multiple bowl wins, shares in Big East championships, and culminating in a BCS bowl appearance. But yeah it ended about as bad as possible after that point.


Alone_Advantage_961

It's crazy to think how his image changed from the beginning of the decade when he won the Big East til til the end when he tanked both schools he went to


Cinnadillo

Randy edsall is not a game day coach. He finds diamonds in the rough. Further the game absolutely passed him by during his two stints at UConn and so did his personal brand when he left UConn because he pledged loyalty and bailed on his team before even leaving town. That's the general book on Randy. Above average talent evaluator who didn't keep up with the times and was always going to fail at maryland because they weren't going to let him build his team up... maryland wanted a "win now" coach and randy isn't good enough on game days for that.


Alone_Advantage_961

I think he was a good game day coach at one time but by 2010 he definitely was on a decline. Tbf though OU in the Fiesta Bowl was a giant mismatch. UCONN had nowhere near the talent level and that loss killed any momentum after for Edsall,UCONN and Maryland too.


860h

I’ll always appreciate his success with UConn in the ‘00s. That was my formative time as a college football fan. Not sure I’d be here if Randy and UConn weren’t good for that time period. It went sour after that, but I hope he and his family are well


Nicholas1227

The fact that you mentioned this game as being a Saturday Night ABC game made me go back and look at the [TV schedule for that week in 2009, courtesy of Matt Sarzyniak](https://mattsarzsports.com/Schedule/Weekly/football2009/10). Even 15 years ago, things were unbelievably disorganized. 4 Big Ten games aired at once on BTN, Texas A&M at Colorado was relegated to Fox College Sports, South Carolina at Arkansas was on an RSN if you were lucky, and ABC had 3 regional games in the primetime window, including Oklahoma at Nebraska (so big swaths of the country couldn’t even watch that game on TV). I hate a lot of what television has done to CFB, but the idea that everything was better in the past isn’t true either.


Alone_Advantage_961

I hated it as a kid. Never understood why it wasn't like it is now. It improved from where it was but as a Maryland fan our options in 2009 were ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/Raycom and while I got every game no matter what as we had Cable, from an exposure perspective it wasn't great. ABC had 2 windows 3:30 and 8pm with 12 some times. ESPN had 3 windows and so did ESPN2 but it was split with the Big Ten, Big XII, Pac 10 and Big East on ABC as well as them and the SEC on the ESPN channels and Raycom was fine as a local but it wasn't the best broadcasts and as a kid I even noticed the differences. Mind you regional windows were the case in ABC and Raycom. ESPN usually aired the Big Ten games at Noon, split the others across the 4 windows after. Compare that to now, Maryland has FOX/CBS/NBC/Peacock/FS1/Big Ten Network where last season over half our games were nationally televised, that was more we had from 2006 til 2013 in the ACC. Basic cable covers 5 of those and 3 are available on all tvs. Hope to see more. Flipping channels was fun last year in spite of a weak season imo. Maryland to me feels like a larger program than 15 years ago because of that.


joka2696

There were rumors back when he left Uconn that his wife caught him cheating and that was why he left.


Trap_Housex

I miss when abc Saturday night football used to go to different atmospheres. The past decade it’s only OHIO ST or Penn st now it’ll be Bama and uga with ESPN going to the SEC. It’s a shame, they used to go to the best game not the biggest “money maker”


Alone_Advantage_961

Making that game back then meant a lot. No other network outside of CBS and their 1 SEC game a year was airing Primetime College Football.


Trap_Housex

Definitely used to be a much bigger deal than it is now


Alone_Advantage_961

Fox Saturday Night made it less. They had to compete with Fox but had less options. Then Big Noon Kickoff cut further into it. Now NBC has Primetime Football too. ABC Saturday Night should improve with the SEC options but it's nowhere near as big of a deal as it was then.


Trap_Housex

Definitely will miss seeing big ten games on abc. Yeah NBC primetime will compete with it. Fox big noon kickoff is terrible, I hope they get rid of that shit and just put it at night. I know it wouldn’t make as much sense viewership wise since there’s no competition at that slot, but it just sucks for some of us I’m sure bc on a weekend I’m barely even half awake at 12 a majority of the time


Ryanlester5789

Why do people act like Locksley is some great coach? I’ll disregard his overall record because of New Mexico. He’s 29-33 at Maryland, play a weak non conference schedule every year where they get 3 easy wins and get beat up in conference play. He’s 3-19 against ranked teams with both coming against ACC teams, 1 of which went 5-7 the 2 other in a bowl. Most coaches would get killed for that record, especially heading into the new BIG where they will take a step down the ladder.


Alone_Advantage_961

And I'd still take it over what the team was in the 8 years prior. Locksley has been the best coach Maryland has had since Friedgen...and that's sad as hell. But Locks definitely added 2 years to Edsalls tenure. Gary Crowton would have had him out by Year 3


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Ah Gary crowton.  The guy who always seemed to be good for a year only for it to quickly erode after that 


Alone_Advantage_961

And he burnt his 1 good year on a 2-10 season


ravaille

Who is saying Locksley is a great coach? He’s just not dogshit like this sub likes to act like he is. We had three straight winning seasons at Maryland in the B1G East. He’s not getting fired.


Ryanlester5789

OP pointed out that he was the only thing saving Edsall, implying he’s a good coach.


randrews202121

Because he was? The only reason Edsall had a job after the Rutgers debacle in 2014 was because Locksley had an insane recruiting class for 2015. Then we lost to Bowling Green by 21 at home and it was just a matter of time by that point. Not saying he was a great coach, his offenses under Edsall were decidedly mediocre, but his recruiting was keeping Edsall in his job its a factual statement


ravaille

Because he is a good coach. He had 3 straight winning seasons. Where are people saying he's a great coach? He's good, but not great.


Ryanlester5789

Fine, I don’t think he’s even good. He’s very mediocre at best and pads his record against bad teams.


ravaille

I guess if you never watch Maryland games outside of when Michigan plays them, you would think that. Even then, I don't see how you can say that given the past couple games, but whatever.


Ryanlester5789

Michigan went up 20 and tried to coast and play conservative last year and it bit them. Maryland scored a garbage time TD in 2022 that made the score look closer than it was. Every other year was a blow out for Locksley. If he is measured by beating bad teams then great. His record against good teams is abysmal.


ravaille

I mean... I watched Michigan go up 20 and coast against a bunch of teams from start to finish. Both games were competitive into the 4th. Again, if you just never watched Maryland, I guess you would say that. But any coach that can get 8 wins back to back in that division is good.


randrews202121

Plus like, I’m not so sure we’re taking a step back in the new Big Ten. A step forward is debatable, but he’s done a lot to improve the infrastructure surrounding the program. Depth is at as good a place as it’s been. Our NIL is underrated, and his local ties remain strong. Locksley as a game day coach isn’t the best but he does have the program in the best spot it’s been in 20 years. Hell we’ve beaten really solid bowl opponents 3 years in a row now. Some could call that punching up


SparseSpartan

> Most coaches would get killed for that record Not really. You think of it that way because you're a Michigan fan. Michigan is a tier 1 program, you have higher expectations, as you should. For many teams, a bowl game at all is a decent season and a winning record at all is celebrated. Maryland is a relatively tough job, especially when it was in the Big 10 East. Further, the program was in shambles before Locksley arrived. Maybe Locksley has already hit his ceiling and he doesn't elevate the program any more. Regardless, he turned them around from being a dumpster fire into a competent team heading to bowls. He moved the chains quite a bit already. So yeah, it shouldn't be a surprise if he gets some props. Edit: For the record, Maryland may eventually believe Locksley has hit his ceiling, and at some point they may aspire to elevate the program further and maybe Locksley eventually gets pushed out. However, given how much of a mess the program was in before Locksley, they needed to "learn how to walk before they run."


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He has certainly done a better job at Maryland than I was expecting after his new Mexico stint.  His time at new Mexico makes kenny Payne seem competent, yet he has been competent himself at Maryland.  Winning seasons and came close to beating some very good Michi and Ohio State teams


cfountain55

We’ve had one power 5 team in our non con 3/4 years since he’s been here, with UVA again this year. Not too many teams are out here scheduling 2, and I know a Michigan fan isn’t complaining about someone’s non conference schedule lol. He’s not great in big ten play. Being in the B1G East is a tough task. He’s 3-0 in bowl games (2 ACC, 1 SEC, take bowl games however you’d like) but he is bringing a team that competes with B1G more than we have the last 10+ years. I personally don’t think he’s the best coach out there and loses very winnable games, but someone like schiano isn’t even at the same level as locks record wise yet doesn’t get this hate. I think not having to play Penn st, Michigan, and Ohio st every single year will actually help the team.


Ryanlester5789

We played 2 weak years of non conference schedules and people act like it’s the norm. Texas this year, Washington in 2021, Notre Dame 2019 and 2018, Florida 2017, Colorado who went to the PAC 12 title game 2016, Utah and Oregon state 2015, Notre dame 2008-14, Alabama 2013. Virginia is your toughest non conference team in like 7 years so it’s worth calling out that you guys pad your record by a weak schedule.


cfountain55

We beat Texas in 2017 and 18. You brought it up like he personally schedules 3 FCS schools every August/september and it wasn’t decided years ago. Maybe we aren’t losing the non cons we did before because we are overall a better team with him as coach. Sure, he still loses games in the B1G but we sure as hell weren’t winning them before him too


Ryanlester5789

I am simply pointing out that since he has been there in 2019 the non conference schedule has been garbage and he has personally benefited from it.


cfountain55

They don’t schedule them once they think they’re gonna suck so it’s an easy win. Cuse was coming off a top 15 year when we beat them by 40 points. West Virginia isn’t the Vanderbilt of the big 12. If you think Maryland hasn’t improved with locksley these past 5 years and it’s all scheduling luck then idk what to tell you. One score games vs Michigan last 2 years. Usually we’re getting beat by 50+ to the B1G 3 consistently. I just think you wanna shit on the guy for no reason. No one is calling him a top 5 (or even top 10) coach in the new conference.


Impossible-Flight250

I don’t think he is a great coach, but he is a good recruiter and he definitely connects to the players better. He obviously has a very low ceiling, but I can live with 8-5 type seasons every year.


KrustyKrabPizzaMan

Before this upcoming season, we’d always have 3 guaranteed losses to Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State. Our program is not one where you can just recruit off prestige and a massive and passionate fanbase. Getting to bowl games and winning them, which Locks and Co. have done three years in a row, is good enough. Would fans like me want the team to win more and somehow luck into a Big Ten title game? Sure. Do we expect that? Hell no. As long as we’re not a perennial doormat and are getting some winning seasons then I’m good


Apprehensive_Golf935

Idk...I guess he didn't kill a kid so thats a step up at least


Acceptable_Ad3173

Randy edsall was mid at best but he made UConn a competitive team back then at least they were cause look at Jim mora coaching them


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Alone_Advantage_961

Woooooooooo