I don't know what Edsall's ceiling at UConn was, or what it is at Maryland. There was a downward trend in his last few years and it has been reported that RE was frustrated with the process to get recruits cleared academically. This was at the same time that the APR thing was going down and, if stories in the papers are to be believed, the whole athletic department was dysfunctional and people (like... head coaches and administrators) weren't talking to each other under Hathaway's leadership - or lack thereof. There is an argument to be made that RE might have been able to improve on his accomplishments of program building of the early 2000s, and he'd be less likely to leave, if Hathaway had been showed the door, or not even hired to be Sweet Lew's replacement. We won't know the answer to that question, though we can judge his record at Maryland instead.
