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Originally Posted by charder30
fair point(s) on the second two things, but his w/l record is irrelevant. He took a terrible job on sanctions. He can recruit the DC/MD/VA area literally better than anyone. He got Stefon Diggs (the #1 WR recruit in the country) to go to MD. He got Vernon Davis, Shawn Merriman etc (basically the list of best Maryland players the last 15 years to go to Maryland.) Oh and Dwayne Haskins would be at Maryland right now if he didn't get let go when MD fired Edsall. Can he coach? thats TBD but he will get kids to go there.
LOL.
It wasn't some sort of dire circumstances that lead to his disaster. He was just an absolutely terrible coach at New Mexico. Like the epitome of terrible. In a weak-ass conference his teams were consistently blown out by everyone. His only two wins (in back-to-back 1-11 seasons plus an 0-4 start before getting ****canned) came in games where they lucked into huge turnover margins and he only had a handful of games that were even close--one of them being a close loss to an FCS school. Those penalties amounted to 5 fewer scholarships total on his freshman and sophomore classes; in other words pretty much irrelevant for those years. They just looked totally unprepared week after week. Even a moron came in after him and won 7 games in 2 years with those sanctioned upper classes.
It wasn't even a terrible job *before* he took it. They had just had their first losing season since 2000, ffs.
I think you're being pretty silly to brush that off. The best you can say about it is, "He learned everything NOT to do--and I DO mean EVERYTHING.", LOL. It's funny because, personally, I would have thought he'd have picked up a thing or two just walking around let alone being an assistant coach.