Now we know why Danny O can't transfer to Vandy

[BlueMAB]

What haters have posted in this thread? Besides, me, to ask who are the haters in this thread?

I said this board, not this thread.

 

[noeynox]

I said this board, not this thread.

Got you. As a hater, I've moved on. You can't help but rubber neck at the wreck sometimes, but it ain't even fun watching him duck up anymore. We need a big year of our own coming up. Here is hoping Chandler Whitmer is the answer to our problems, and if he ain't, that Mike Nebrich has improved by leaps and bounds.

 

[BlueMAB]

Got you. As a hater, I've moved on. You can't help but rubber neck at the wreck sometimes, but it ain't even fun watching him duck up anymore. We need a big year of our own coming up. Here is hoping Chandler Whitmer is the answer to our problems, and if he ain't, that Mike Nebrich has improved by leaps and bounds.

I'm just not interested in what Maryland or Edsall does anymore, and stay out of those conversations generally even though I read most of it. My main beef is how far people will go to diminish what we've accomplished just because they need to bash Edsall. If we can't celebrate our championships, then we're basically Rutgers without the Helicopter, and we should have higher aspirations for the program than to be on par with Rutgers Football. I wasn't implying people shouldn't discuss him, it was just an observation (not a complaint).

I'm looking forward, not backward. With the coaching transition, and re-alignment crap, I have enough concerns about UConn football to keep me from wasting time following the Twerps or their coach. Others don't, that's ok too.

 

[TRest]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...tered-waters/2012/02/16/gIQArzdAIR_story.html

I heard Joe D mention this on the way home. Sally Jenkins, of all people, tears a piece off RE.

 

[CTMike]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...tered-waters/2012/02/16/gIQArzdAIR_story.html

I heard Joe D mention this on the way home. Sally Jenkins, of all people, tears a piece off RE.

Yowza. Then again... hard to disagree with.

 

[businesslawyer]

The article is not completely fair or completely true, but I take my hat off to the writer -- it is very funny.

 

[whaler11]

The article is not completely fair or completely true, but I take my hat off to the writer -- it is very funny.

It was much less true when it first got posted and she wrote that Edsall made Todman tell his teammates he was transferring.

 

[Waquoit]

The article is not completely fair or completely true, but I take my hat off to the writer -- it is very funny.

She got the main point right, Randy is all about Randy.

 

[HuskyBarker]

Bahahaha! Now that is Funny, got that

Chief Petty Officer Rangoon ! ​

 

[TRest]

RE didn't realize his Opie persona would not play well outside of CT.

 

[uconnfan68]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...tered-waters/2012/02/16/gIQArzdAIR_story.html

I heard Joe D mention this on the way home. Sally Jenkins, of all people, tears a piece off RE.

Wow, how's life in the big-time Randy?

 

[MidTown Husky]

Got you. As a hater, I've moved on. You can't help but rubber neck at the wreck sometimes, but it ain't even fun watching him duck up anymore. We need a big year of our own coming up. Here is hoping Chandler Whitmer is the answer to our problems, and if he ain't, that Mike Nebrich has improved by leaps and bounds.

People talk about edsall because there's nothing else to talk about...team went 5-7

 

[metsfan2323]

People talk about edsall because there's nothing else to talk about...team went 5-7

We could have gone 13-0 and won the national championship and the Randy Edsall train wreck at Maryland would still be discussed, and rightfully so, he is a significant part of our history.

If you look at thread "views" as votes, the Randy Edsall threads are consistently voted as the more popular threads in the football forum. Anytime someone posts in an Edsall thread that they have "moved on" they are in fact proving the opposite to be true.

 

[BlueMAB]

LOL. Yes, anytime someone makes an observation about the boneyard's behavior, it's clearly an indication they weren't interested in the boneyard's behavior, they were actually more concerned with someone else.

What does it prove when someone decides to take 2 conference championships, and try to prove how they were actually ".84 conference championships"?

 

[BlueMAB]

People talk about edsall because there's nothing else to talk about...team went 5-7

We went 5-7 and there's nothing else to talk about? LOL

 

[metsfan2323]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...21/maryland-edsall-obrien-transfer/index.html

SI chimes in on the O'Brien transfer situation. It puts a new twist on the subject that is a bit of a defense of Edsall. It suggests that the AD may be behind the Vandy exclusion.

 

[UConn9604]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...21/maryland-edsall-obrien-transfer/index.html

SI chimes in on the O'Brien transfer situation. It puts a new twist on the subject that is a bit of a defense of Edsall. It suggests that the AD may be behind the Vandy exclusion.

Check out the charming first paragraph:

My media colleagues seem to be split in their opinions of Maryland football coach Randy Edsall. One camp thinks Edsall is a self-serving, hypocritical turd. The other camp thinks he is a shameless, ruthless disgrace to his profession.

 

[noeynox]

Check out the charming first paragraph:

My media colleagues seem to be split in their opinions of Maryland football coach Randy Edsall. One camp thinks Edsall is a self-serving, hypocritical turd. The other camp thinks he is a shameless, ruthless disgrace to his profession.

Or

Franklin arrived at Vanderbilt, energized all sorts of people, and took the Commodores from 2-10 to a bowl game.
Edsall arrived at Maryland, alienated all sorts of people, and took the Terps from 9-4 to 2-10.

Kid is getting boned. Plain and simple, they don't want to see him light it up at Vanderbilt and have Franklin look like a GREAT coach, knowing they pushed him out to bring in Edsall.​

 

[businesslawyer]

That is a great article. Not a good one, but a great one. And it will be a shame if people who read it can only focus on the parts about Randy Edsall.

 

[UConn9604]

That is a great article. Not a good one, but a great one. And it will be a shame if people who read it can only focus on the parts about Randy Edsall.

I thought the same thing myself, and it shows that when it comes to college sports, the biggest egos are frequently not even in the Athletic Department. The knee-jerk reaction is to label Edsall a control freak who doesn't want the guy who wanted his job to look better than him. When you dig a little more deeply, it's easy to see that those who effectively sent Franklin packing to Vanderbilt have a lot more to lose by Franklin's success than Edsall does -- especially Kevin Anderson, who hitched his reputation to Edsall by firing Friedgen and not hiring Franklin to replace him.