Mike Locksley Officially Introduced as Maryland Offensive Coordinator
by Ben Broman on Dec 22, 2011 11:44 AM EST
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PrintWell, that took long enough. We knew it was coming for a full week now, but it's taken until just now to get the official word from the University: Mike Locksley is Maryland's next offensive coordinator. Way to play the news cycle, Kevin.
InsideMDSports is the first with the full press release. It's standard press release fodder and of course contains no particularly interesting notes or quotes. Locks and Edsall exchanged pleasantries by way of predictable sound bites about how happy they both are to be in this situation, how much they admire each other, and so on and so forth.
All I care about: this means Locksley can legally recruit. I mean, technically speaking he could've been recruiting before this, but, uh, whatever. Start selling Ron Darby and Wes Brown hard.
This also means I can start publishing some stories I wrote over the weekend for publication post-Locksley announcement. The first will be heading your way in about an hour. Until then, rejoice.
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I say we pull a Ohio State
Just start throwing money around get some legit recrutis win a Natty and 10 years down the road lose some scholarships and maybe forfeit a bowl game for one year. I say if that’s all the NCAA is going to throw at OSU, then let’s do it.
by El Goodd Terps13 on Dec 22, 2011 11:58 AM EST reply actions
OSU boosters said forget the $100 handshakes
Reportedly, that one booster was slingin’ $200 shakes!
"A new era has dawned in Maryland Athletics..."
by bball purist on Dec 22, 2011 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
Wasn’t the punishment we received for practicing too long almost identical?!
by LowcountryTerp1 on Dec 22, 2011 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
Nah, OSU got 9 schollies, a bowl ban, and I believe probation
Our punishment wasn’t for practicing too long, it was for academic performance, and we got 3 schollies and a minor practice time reduction.
What did we get the time Sharpless
was trying to sling some Xboxes??
Spence
I don’t get why Spence committed to them with all this crap hanging over OSU.
Really?
These sanctions are nothing, he will most likely redshirt next year, so missing one bowl game really isn’t a big deal. Plus 9 scholarships over 3 years isn’t a big deal.
OSU with one year probation, 9 reduced scholarships (avg 3/year), and an extra year “probation” and Urban Meyer is still more attractive than UMD with Randy Edsall. Just they way it is.
True
Totally agree that Urban Meyer/OSU is more attractive than Edsall/MD. They are not even in the same ballpark. I was under the assumption that the sanctions were a little more still. Guess I am still a little disappointed we didn’t pull off the upset here. It’s only a verbal as of now right? Maybe Locks can work some magic :))
Wasnt the practice time reduction for the "supervised" off-season workouts
that were supervised by a few grad assts? And the practice time reduction was self-imposed, I believe? Has any other school had any type of sanction like that for supervised workouts?
OSU and their fans are ecstatic
that they got off with a slap on the wrist. This NCAA decision makes payola to players almost legal. The death penalty would have been much better.
by Snappin Terp on Dec 22, 2011 10:37 PM EST up reply actions
OSU got off lightly ...
The NCAA has yet to grow a pair of balls!
OSU should have received far stricter sanctions. But they didn’t. Isn’t it a coincidence that Urban Meyer took a week to formally announced he was accepting the OSU head coaching job. The week was spent getting assurances from NCAA about their show of leniency.
I guarantee you if UMD was caught in a similar predicament our punishment would be far harsher.
At the end of the day, NCAA ought to be ashamed of itself! They have sold out … and, it’s all about the money. How else can you explain universities like Ohio, Miami, USC, Florida, etc. committing huge infractions for years when caught get a simple slap on the wrist.
Thanks Ben
Waiting for some more Holiday nugget stories.
"A new era has dawned in Maryland Athletics..."
Another bitter disappointment!
Congratulations, Mike! Welcome back to the UMD family. I wish you the very best … and sure do hope you help bring UMD’s football program back to prominence. For X-Mas, like most alums, I am hoping you can recruit like crazy … and, fill UMD’s football talent pool with 4 and 5 star recruits. Anything less would simply be unacceptable.
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Now, having said that, if I had the choice, I would have hired Mike strictly for recruiting. As I previously posted, I would have preferred if we had hired a successful OC with stellar credentials. Unfortunately, knowing the 3 stooges – Loh, Anderson, and Eggshell see things differently.
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Kevin, are you listening? Are you reading these posts? If so, let me tell you that UMD’s football program is coming together nicely — good to laughing stock! Yeah! That’s how much we have regressed.
who are you? egshell isnt even a clever nickname..
this is a great hire, you really think someone would come here if we told them they suck at coaching so we’ll only let them recruit? his job as OC was good enough to lead me to believe he could do even better here in his backyard
by Maryland1206 on Dec 22, 2011 7:08 PM EST up reply actions
we love you too Heather
“Let me get this straight:
In order to improve Maryland football and the dreadful perception of it right now, coach Randy Edsall hired an offensive coordinator who has more baggage than Santa’s sleigh."
http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/34558/locksley-hire-a-gamble
HD sucks
I stopped reading her blog a long time ago. She constantly hates on whatever team/conference she’s covering. She hated MD the entire time at the Baltimore Sun and now hates on the ACC at ESPN.com. I read about sports for enjoyment and I get zero joy from reading anything she writes.
by TerpFan2001 on Dec 22, 2011 7:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
We need Wes Brown badly
Hope Locks goes after him hard.
Does anyone know for certain....
….who was initially responsible — Anderson or Edsall — in hiring the coordinators? Is Edsall now rebuilding a staff foisted on him? Or vice versa?
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