The board has been awfully quiet with actual football talk. I won't start Edsall threads, but I'll jump in headfirst to any already going.
Just curious, why do you think he has flopped so bad his first year?
That's a good question. I probably should refrain from answering it because, to be frank, I have not followed the maryland situation closely enough that I put any weight whatsoever in what I'm about to say. If, however, you want my WAG, totally uneducated, I would guess that a team coming off a very good year didn't understand why they had to start on ground level one, and couldn't build on what they accomplished, and that Edsall was not flexible enough to realize that walking into a short-term successful ACC program was not like starting with a mediocre Colonial program. I'm sure he would have gotten off to a much better start had he, with the players, been more modest with the changes he made and change from the Fridge's ways to his ways more gradually as he brought in young men who bought in to his ways.
And I do credit P and staff for struggling with how to do this, and to move things from a way that was, in the whole, working to a different way that you coach. I don't think P and staff have done this perfectly, but they've at least struggled with how to do this. Edsall was more determined to do it his way then to win over the next three years. And, while I absolutely believe Edsall, given time, can be successful at Maryland, his single focus determination (or, if you don't like him, arrogrance) to do it his way and his way only may not give him the time he needs at Maryland to tear it apart and then build it back up.
I think I'm largely agreeing with Jacobs (without the enmity). I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
