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Yea I totally understand what they've been trying to do which is why I was all the more surprised they didn't hire Leach. I was rooting for him to get that job but they totally blew it IMO. Edsall was a wimpy hiring. He's not an awful coach but he's not an upgrade over Friedgen AT ALL. If they weren't going to go all in they might as well have just kept Friedgen; he did go 9-4 last year.Originally Posted by DoubleJs07
Originally Posted by 5am6oody72
@ Edsall but I can't fault him for it. IMO if he does that it's probably because he'll be forced to because all the in state kids know how terrible that program is, not a lack of talent. Just in the recent recruiting cycles there are kids like Diggs, Cyrus Jones, Wes Brown, Kendall Fuller, Stefon Colbert, Darius Jennings, Jelani Jenkins, Tavon Austin etc etc. Winning is part of it, but in the case of Jennings and Phelps MD lost them to UVA. A lot of kids don't wanna stay local and since MD wasn't at all successful when they were growing up they don't really have much loyalty to them at all. Hell, kids from that area had a better chance of playing for Locksley at New Mexico than the Terps
I agree with what you're saying....and they're trying to fix things with the big UA push and make the facilites/unis appealing to recruits. Trying their hardest to become like Oregon of the East coast with the UA connection (and ya...they got a looooong way to go). But it's a start. Where they messed up was with the hire of Edsall. Would things have been that bad had Fridge stayed on? With him being fired, everyone thought Leach would have been the guy. Who knows...maybe Edsall will get things turned around. Personally, I don't see it happening as I believe he'll get the ax within the next 2 years.