I think it shows a bigger person to be able to acknowledge a mistake or overreaching / self-serving decision and then correct it. Whether or not the motivation to do so is genuine, it appears FHCRE has done the right thing.
Ehhh... I don't know if I'd give him credit for being a bigger person... Like you said, is the motivation genuine, or was the university just feeling the heat from many directions to change?
I would agree with this. I have a hard time believing Edsall actually owned up to a mistake on his own versus being pressured to do it by the media and University.
One has to really hate someone to criticize him for doing something, and then criticize him again for taking your advice and doing what you purported to want him to do in the first place. Normal, rational people don't act that way.
what about the TD pass to Mike Ryan that was called back b/c he wasn't ruled eligible. i think it was @ND. you know it's a tricky play when the refs don't even know the receiver was eligible
Rutgers at home. In the first home game after Jazz Howard's stabbing (the Tim Brown game). It is certainly fair to say that Edsall didn't believe in trick plays. You could count on your fingers the number of trick plays we'd run in any four or five year period.
Danny O'brien should get on his hands and knees and be thankful he won't see that train wreck but on Espn.He should look to the left coast and get as far away from Maryland as possible.
The thing is, one of the coaches from MD ended up at Vandy, and it is pretty well rumored that the coach illegally communicated with OB. And RE stood up to him, and wouldn't condone it. So, if that's the real story, I'm with RE on this issue. You can't just poach players against the rules. RE does enough things wrong, but this wasn't one of them, if that's the story.
I believe a player should be free to go wherever he wants to go if he leaves school. Coaches do it constantly.
That is not how RE should stand up to such an alleged act. I'm sure there is an avenue through the NCAA. Using the athlete as a pawn is not the right answer.
Basically, it seems that Edsall was mad that he suspected that O'Brien was leaving Maryland in the same fashion that he left UConn. The difference was that he could hold the kid up whereas UConn could only hold him to his buyout. He had leverage and used it until the Washington Post made a sport out of beating him over the head until he cried 'uncle'. He's just tone-deaf to the rest of the world at times. I don't think he has any idea how some things will be perceived and he's genuinely surprised when there's pushback. He's not stupid by any stretch, he's just wired differently. It didn't help him at UConn, but it didn't hurt him much either. No one gives a f*** if the Shawn Corchesnes of the world are twisted at you. If anything, it is somewhat endearing. The Washington Post is a much bigger animal than he dealt with here, though, and they've decided that they don't like him in the same way that the NY papers decided they didn't like Ray Handley or Rich Kottite. He'll pay for every misstep or even every perceived misstep. I think he'll learn, but he should probably do it quickly.
Because in your universe, only people who agree with you are "rational". Seriously, that Dyson vacuum cleaner guy wants to study you in order to understand how you can suck up to Randy Edsall so well.
Old coach that the player likes leaves to go to Vandy, turns out to actually be a good coach and gets Vandy to a bowl game. Player decides he has irreconcilable differences with Rangoon and wants to play for his old coach. Seems straightforward unless there actually is proof that old coach reached out poached Rangoon's player. If Rangoon has proof that the old coach did something wrong then he should present that evidence. Otherwise he is just completely full of it. There is a big difference between doing the right thing and being directed to the right thing. Edsall is just incredibly stupid. He has some real malcontents. Got it. Instead of letting them leave in order to turn the page and move on, he drags it out and draws more attention to it. If he actually does find a way to win 8 games next season, everyone will still remember that he is a total douche.
