Edsall's strict approach

Me like.

I wanted to give you credit for your comments the other day but got caught up. You made good points in your argument and you didn’t sound like your an apologist. Your stance on Edsall is basically the same as mine and i couldn’t have said a word you wrote any better. Especially about Edsall on the recruiting trail and local recruiting. IMO, local recruiting is in better shape than it was in the last regime. So, there is the Dematha and EJ Levenberry thing, but lets be honest. who wouldn’t trade a bad Dematha relationship for a good relationship with Good Counsel, Quince Orchard, Damascus, Dunbar, Gilman, Calvert Hall , Friendship Collegiate Academy, etc ? And then again lets discuss the Dematha/Levenberry situation. 1) Edsall did build a good relationship with DM earlier this year. WAPO or the sun had an article talking about how hes been hitting the trail hard and how often hes been to DM, GC, and QO. In fact, UMD was top 2 for DM starting DE Brent Wilkerson before he popped for Penn st, and Sam Lebbie was in serious consideration before his grades were found out. 2) DM’s head coach quit and left for some job at Gilman which helped us now that i think about it. 3) Ej Levenberry transferred from DM to early for Edsall could recruit, because there were rumors after last season that the coach was leaving. Another thing I’d like to talk about is this perception that Edsall’s strict approach doesn’t relate to recruits of today, which is completely FALSE! It seems to be only a problem with fans because contrary to popular belief he has been well received by kids , coaches and parents . If this were true, why are recruits saying thing like " i like his style" or " he’s trying to build something down there". Wes Brown tried to shake his hand after a TD during the GC/Gilman game for Christ sake, DURING A GAME!!!!! He has had at least 2 visitors to each home game. and lets talk about the parents and coaches . On ims they were talking about Cyrus Jones’ and his top 5, some asshole said " why would Cyrus want to play for a hard ass like Edsall". Well, Cyrus Jones’ father is a hard ass, and so is Gilman’s coach. Eddie Goldman’s father is strict, and so is his coach. Hell, Noah Spence’ s father is 100% military. here is Stefon Diggs ,“my mother loves Randy Edsall”. On friday he payed yet another visit to QO to see Marcus Newby a hard hitting 2013 LB. Here is QO’s coach on Newby, “hes been down here in the spring , visited in the summer and was down at one of there 2 a days before the season”. Cyrus Jones said that Bama is his favorite, but lets be serious even if we went undefeated would you have expected different. good news hes down to 5 and UVA is out, he will take all his visits, i think, and we will have our shot. Stefon Diggs , i wouldn’t say a leader for him cause hes very different and is going through the process as such. Eddie Goldman to fsu, sorry cant win them all. Noah Spence,? UMD is definately still in it, where are they ??? Penn st seems like the leader , is it true , like i said? Someone said that DJ Reader was a ‘runaway" UMD lean, but now Clemson and UNC are gaining. well, he will be on his official visit this weekend or next, and the only reason those 2 are as high as they are is because he wants to play baseball. UNC and clemson have good baseball programs, but we do have a pretty good coach so i here. Abner Logan will officially visit in december. Now of course like Ben has said, recruiting is a result based game. Thats fair and this recruting class needs at least on of those big fish to pop for us. He is putting in alot of work and continues to do without the credit he deserves for it. I likes Fridge but i seriously doubt we’ d be this far with him. I mean when Don Brown left everyone thought that Florida recruiting was over, well he has 3 Florida prospects considering UMD hard. I also want to express some feelings about Mike Leach. Now Edsall was not my first choice either, but can we please bury this Leach thing. I can’t stand when someone says that he’d be doing ten times better , recruiting would be better, the fans would be more excited. 1) please give me evidence to support this theory . Like fear the turtle said, our offense and Leach’s arent that different. The difference is Leach basically doesn’t use RB’s, so if you dont think DJ likes being on thbench alone now then hire Leach and he’ll have company. 2) How would recruiting be better , Leach’s recruiting reputation wasnt good either. Actually if he did get hired Tyler Cierski wouldn’t be here, Marcus Leak and someone else would have left. 3) maybe he would have brung a bit more excitment to the fanbase, I’ll take that. But if he did get hired , and his season turned out like this , would people feel the same way? Another thing i want to ask is about KA. Besides the Edsall thing and his public speaking, what has he done wrong? He left his booth to ride with Andrew Gonnella to the hospital and spent the night with him in Georgia, and contacted his father. How many AD’s would even consider that, and people actually gave him grief about being on the field. He has put threw plans to renovate the team house , new football fields turf, and an indoor practice facility. I think he got a new deal with UA done. He addresses the fanbase directly, and shows how committed he is to all the sports. He hired the Turg and that wasnt even his first choice. So , can someone fill me in on why he should be fired , please thanx.

Like I said in a previous post, after the temple game, there are a few things that I don’t like. The DJ Adams not playing, Kenny Tate at linebacker, Not adjusting to in game situations . And the recent comments about DOB are discouraging. No do rags and names on the back of jerseys imho are petty and meaningless things that shouldn’t even be taken into consideration during coach analysis , so i don’t pay mind to those things. He did say something negative about not having enough talent , that is a little far . But he is right and didn’t Turge basically do the same thing so no big fuss from me. Him yelling at Nick Ferrara after he turned away from him, that needed to be done. I’m sorry but if a coach is addressing a player and that player turns his head , why shouldn’t the coach jump down his throat? Edsall does have to grow out of some of his ways and fast if he wants to succeed at UMD. With that said , so do the players and need to have some pride. Sometimes you just have to pull it together, stop griping, motivate yourself and others around you. If Dj Adams was walking up and down the sideline trying to fire up the team, into the game from the sidelines instead of sulking on the bench, do you think he’d still wouldn’t get time , i don’t. if Wuj or Moten was on this team the defense would be alot better. Not just from a performance stand point, but motivational as well. They would be talking trash, keeping people into the game. A team without any vocal leaders in my book is not good by no means.

In Edsall we trust. Aka, long term results>short term results

Leach has played with and beaten the big boys, Edsall has not. Leach’s hiring would have brought instant credibility to the program and the seats in Byrd would have been filled. Get ready for mediocrity for the next 3 plus years.

Your post is way too long. Seems like you are going to publish this as a book and not a fansite post.

I’m not a pro-Edsall guy (yet), but I do appreciate getting all sides of the story. This is an important aspect of coaching that we have neglected to discuss at length on this site.

Posted this an hour ago:
Senior defensive lineman Maurice Hampton on the culture this year around the team: "Just the rules. He’s [Coach Edsall’s] doing everything right. Take your hat off when you come in the room. Don’t wear earrings in the building. You never know who you are going to meet in life and whether you are rubbing them the wrong way. Show someone that you have character and are not just another guy. I get it. But everyone doesn’t get it. They are mad because, ‘Oh, I have to take my earrings out’ or ‘I can’t wear this in the building or I have to pull my pants up or tuck my shirt in.’ None of these things are wrong. They are all right."