Maryland dismisses Randy Edsall

Maryland’s last three losses have come by a combined score of 122-34, and that’s not including a 48-27 home loss to Bowling Green in Week 2, where the Terps led at halftime 13-6 before surrendering 42 second-half points to the Falcons spread offense.

The Terrapins got off to a 2-3 start, then they lost to No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday, 49-28.

“This was a good football team, and I believe it can be great”, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said before hiring Edsall, per The Washington Post.

With Edsall’s firing, Maryland will be expected to pay the remaining $2.1 million of his salary due in 2016, as well as a half-million dollar buyout.

Edsall did lots of good at Maryland, shoring up the academic achievements while running a program that largely avoided off-field issues while operating under the NCAA rules. They entered this season coming off back-to-back winning years for the first time since 2002.

Though OSU and Maryland came in as two of the worst teams in the country in terms of coughing up turnovers, each kept it mostly clean on Saturday. However, he could do without the never-ending discussion around his two quarterbacks. The Terps dropped the Military Bowl to Marshall and the Foster Farms Bowl to Stanford in consecutive years.

The dismissal, announced Sunday, comes in the middle of Edsall’s fifth season with the Terrapins.

“Have you been to any of the games since I’ve been the head coach here at the University of Maryland?”

The university has committed to upgrading the program and has embarked on the construction of a new indoor practice facility to bring its football facilities up to Big Ten standards.

But Ohio State showed a few familiar flaws: a defense susceptible to big plays, an inconsistent offensive line and a two-QB system that grows more complicated as the season progresses. A year after Maryland touted a 30 percent increase in season ticket sales in its inaugural season in the Big Ten, this season’s attendance dip is one of the five largest among the 65 programs that form the “Power Five”, the sport’s wealthiest and most powerful conferences.

The quarterback position has been at the root of Maryland’s on-field dysfunction since fall camp wrapped in August. “And Perry Hills, he was a warrior today”. It was the only head coaching job Locksley has held during his career, and it was mired in controversy.

When Maryland extended Edsall in the offseason, fans took to the Internet to decry the move.

They had been outscored 73-6 in their last two games by West Virginia and Michigan.

The Maryland Terrapins have reportedly fired head coach Randy Edsall after losing to Ohio State on Saturday.

And Edsall could be fun, in his own way. Before joining Edsall’s staff in 2012, Locksley was a Maryland assistant from 1998 to 2002. Edsall was just four months removed from signing a three-year contract extension, which at the time represented a measured vote of confidence from the administration.

There was little that went Maryland’s way from there, and as the Terrapins boarded buses outside Ohio Stadium following the game, players weren’t sure if Edsall would be back.