Randy Edsall

Men, there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: the right way, the wrong way, the Navy way and my way — the Randy Edsall way. Let me say this: We do things my way and no one else's, because Randy Edsall is all about one thing, and one thing only. And that's Randy Edsall. Now, I realize there has been some discussion about my methods. Some of you misguided sailors think I'm small and vindictive. You may even accuse me of sounding like Captain Queeg from that 1950s movie, "The Caine Mutiny," with...

In Gilman School football parlance, it's called recruiting fatigue. After guiding the Baltimore-based Greyhounds for 16 years, Biff Poggi can immediately recognize the symptoms. First, the college coach calls, wondering why Recruit X switched off his cell phone's voice mail, or why his Facebook account lay dormant for several days. Poggi then approaches the player, asking about a broken phone. "No," the player typically responds. "I'm just tired of talking. " Thursday, the NCAA Board of Directors will meet in...

University of Maryland football fans still are waiting for Coach Randy Edsall to prove he's right for his job. You can't expect them to be happy after Edsall went 6-18 in his first two seasons combined in College Park. But perhaps Edsall's encouraging performance in recruiting should inspire at least a little confidence. Off the field, Edsall has won. In the Terrapins' 22-man recruiting class announced Wednesday, there are 14 players from Maryland and the District , including several of...

University of Maryland football fans still are waiting for Coach Randy Edsall to prove he's right for his job. You can't expect them to be happy after Edsall went 6-18 in his first two seasons combined in College Park. But perhaps Edsall's encouraging performance in recruiting should inspire at least a little confidence. Off the field, Edsall has won. In the Terrapins' 22-man recruiting class announced Wednesday, there are 14 players from Maryland and the District , including several of...

Major changes were needed in Maryland's football program after the team went 2-10 in Coach Randy Edsall's disastrous first season , and Edsall wisely made some. He hired new coordinators and instructed them to overhaul the offense and defense. Edsall pushed for a new synthetic field at Byrd Stadium and approved redesigned uniforms with player names on the back as part of the makeover. He remodeled as much as he could, essentially painting, upgrading the carpet and hanging new drapes.

On Saturday, in the wake of his football team's final humiliation of 2011, a 56-41 loss to North Carolina State in which the Wolfpack outscored his team 42-0 in the last 21 minutes , Maryland Coach Randy Edsall told reporters he was heading out to recruit for a couple of days and would then begin reevaluating his team and his program . Edsall's boss, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson, should cancel that recruiting trip. And Edsall's reevaluation. Anderson should do the reevaluation.

There are all kinds of coaches, and all kinds of ways to coach. We're certainly seeing that play out in Washington this fall. There's whatever is going on with the Redskins — but it's time to take a booted foot off the neck of the Shanahans for a few days and let them work on their problems, which are legion with the 49ers (6-1) on the way to Washington. There's Randy Edsall at Maryland , whose weekly utterances bring joy to the hearts of local sportswriters, and puzzlement to...

Maryland football coach Randy Edsall knows he has a problem, and it's much more extensive than the 2-10 record the Terrapins finished with in Edsall's first season in College Park. As Maryland struggled on the field, the school's football community fractured off it. Eight players have left the program for various reasons since the season ended, making the total 20 since Edsall was named coach in January. Some parents grumbled about what was lost in the transition from former...

While applauding the ACC for being proactive in adding Big East schools Syracuse and Pittsburgh , Maryland Coach Randy Edsall expressed general concerns about the unprecedented level of tumult and uncertainty that pervades the current college sports world. "There is nobody in charge," Edsall said. "To me, there are a lot of things that have to change. Ultimately, I don't care what anyone says, it's still all about these student-athletes. That's who it's about. "How they...

Randy Edsall lost an asset Monday, a team player who wore his uniform proudly and everyone respected during his long, storied history as a Maryland Terrapin . That's right, Testudo is transferring. The school mascot is going to the Galapagos, where tortoises are allowed to wear their shell backward, have diamond-studded earrings and be themselves, not just robotic mascots for by-the-book taskmasters. "I'm disappointed in Testudo's decision," Edsall said in a statement. "He...

Joe Krivak, 77, the University of Maryland's head football coach from 1987 to 1991, died Dec. 25, the university said in a statement. Current head coach Randy Edsall said on Twitter that Mr. Krivak had leukemia. No other details about his death were released. Mr. Krivak was known as an outstanding coach of quarterbacks. As Maryland's quarterbacks coach under Bobby Ross in the 1980s, he worked with future NFL players Boomer Esiason, Frank Reich and Stan Gelbaugh. "He tutored some of the most prolific quarterbacks to...

Tom Coughlin saw the signs six years ago, when his New York Giants players tuned him out because of a fundamental disagreement. They recoiled at Coughlin's emphasis on details, which seemed like minutiae to many of them but essential to their coach. He heard the whispers a year later, when new General Manager Jerry Reese and Giants ownership wondered aloud whether the team could win with Coughlin as coach, and might its chances be better with someone else? And he was...

When the C8 bus arrives in College Park, Joel rushes out and scurries across the University of Maryland campus. He's late, and he hates being late. The students don't seem to notice him — just another backpack and Terrapins cap — but when he reaches his destination, the gates open to one of the most exclusive spots on campus. In order to watch Maryland football practice, you need to be one of three things: 1) a player, 2) a coach, 3) Joel Ryerson, the 51-year-old...

The three lessons Randy Edsall learned from his forgettable first year in College Park, he said, come from an old Clint Eastwood movie: " ‘Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.' I don't remember the name of it, but those are the three things," he said, leaning back in a leather recliner in his office at Gossett Team House. The movie was 1986's "Heartbreak Ridge. " The plot, as summarized at IMDB.com : a hard-nosed Marine gunnery sergeant "clashes with his superiors ...

The question, innocently enough, was about uniforms. Just jerseys. Nothing more. Maryland fans, Coach Randy Edsall was told, are curious about which uniforms the Terrapins will wear Saturday against Connecticut . His response? A perfect deadpan. "I don't know if I have any fans," Edsall said before breaking into a wide grin. "Do I?" Edsall's curiosity is understandable. Emotions will swirl among Huskies fans still bitter over Edsall's unceremonious departure two...

Major changes were needed in Maryland's football program after the team went 2-10 in Coach Randy Edsall's disastrous first season , and Edsall wisely made some. He hired new coordinators and instructed them to overhaul the offense and defense. Edsall pushed for a new synthetic field at Byrd Stadium and approved redesigned uniforms with player names on the back as part of the makeover. He remodeled as much as he could, essentially painting, upgrading the carpet and hanging new drapes.

So now Randy Edsall wants Maryland fans to believe he was brought in to rebuild Maryland's football program . "This is a process we are in," he said after the Terrapins' humiliating 38-7 loss to Temple on Saturday. "It was not going to get changed overnight no matter how much I want it to. " Maryland was 9-4 last season under Ralph Friedgen. Like most college teams it lost some key players and returned some key players. As has become evident since his firing last fall, Friedgen...

Al Golden and Randy Edsall, two self-described value-driven, process-oriented coaches with reputations for breathing life into dormant or downtrodden programs, last stood on opposing sidelines a year ago, when Golden's Temple team beat Edsall-coached Connecticut, 30-16, in Philadelphia. Since then, each has inherited his share of adversity after accepting ACC head coaching jobs last winter. That is where the similarities end. In the eight months since replacing the...

From the first-year coordinators to updated uniforms with name plates on the back and a new synthetic turf field at Byrd Stadium , the Maryland football program has an unmistakably fresh feel under second-year coach Randy Edsall. And why not, considering the Terrapins are trying all they can to put last season in their rearview mirror after going 2-10 and absorbing two dozen transfers, including starting quarterback Danny O'Brien to Wisconsin. "The thing is, everybody understands the process in terms...

It's been another bang-up week of bad pub in College Park. Maryland football coach Randy Edsall, a $2 million-a-year hall monitor, finally let his transferring players go where they wanted — albeit after he was pilloried nationally for holding quarterback Danny O'Brien and other players hostage from choosing the school they wanted. Kevin Anderson, the athletic director who hired Edsall, made his own headlines by drawing a line in the sand with Georgetown : Until the Terps and Hoyas schedule a men's...