The article is not completely fair or completely true, but I take my hat off to the writer -- it is very funny.
It was much less true when it first got posted and she wrote that Edsall made Todman tell his teammates he was transferring.
We could have gone 13-0 and won the national championship and the Randy Edsall train wreck at Maryland would still be discussed, and rightfully so, he is a significant part of our history. If you look at thread "views" as votes, the Randy Edsall threads are consistently voted as the more popular threads in the football forum. Anytime someone posts in an Edsall thread that they have "moved on" they are in fact proving the opposite to be true.
LOL. Yes, anytime someone makes an observation about the boneyard's behavior, it's clearly an indication they weren't interested in the boneyard's behavior, they were actually more concerned with someone else. What does it prove when someone decides to take 2 conference championships, and try to prove how they were actually ".84 conference championships"?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...21/maryland-edsall-obrien-transfer/index.html SI chimes in on the O'Brien transfer situation. It puts a new twist on the subject that is a bit of a defense of Edsall. It suggests that the AD may be behind the Vandy exclusion.
Check out the charming first paragraph: My media colleagues seem to be split in their opinions of Maryland football coach Randy Edsall. One camp thinks Edsall is a self-serving, hypocritical turd. The other camp thinks he is a shameless, ruthless disgrace to his profession.
Or Franklin arrived at Vanderbilt, energized all sorts of people, and took the Commodores from 2-10 to a bowl game. Edsall arrived at Maryland, alienated all sorts of people, and took the Terps from 9-4 to 2-10. Kid is getting boned. Plain and simple, they don't want to see him light it up at Vanderbilt and have Franklin look like a GREAT coach, knowing they pushed him out to bring in Edsall.
That is a great article. Not a good one, but a great one. And it will be a shame if people who read it can only focus on the parts about Randy Edsall.
I thought the same thing myself, and it shows that when it comes to college sports, the biggest egos are frequently not even in the Athletic Department. The knee-jerk reaction is to label Edsall a control freak who doesn't want the guy who wanted his job to look better than him. When you dig a little more deeply, it's easy to see that those who effectively sent Franklin packing to Vanderbilt have a lot more to lose by Franklin's success than Edsall does -- especially Kevin Anderson, who hitched his reputation to Edsall by firing Friedgen and not hiring Franklin to replace him.
