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Lack of talent in the AD position...

Unless the talent is swindling schools for 10 million dollars.

there are those who justified losing to clemson (up 35-17 with 13:06 left in the third quarter to lose 56-45) with the talent gap. either game, one side adjusted to seize victory and one couldn't maintain/protect at least a three score lead.

no doubt the players are botching plays, but we don't need to blame them here...Rangoon will take of that.

Here's evidence that it's mostly coaching: we are bad in all phases of the game. We have guys all over the roster making mistakes including the freakin longsnapper interfering with a punt returner. Everyone is screwing up because it's in everyone's head. that's coaching. this is what drill instructors do, they strip you down to train you and that's what Edsall did to the players.

Exactly. They break you down and build you up again.
Rangoon broke them all and told them 'you suck' and they all believe it.

edsallllllllll has spent his entire time here building himself up. that's the purpose of one voice. make himself the focus. that way he controls the message.

exactly. come in with BS rules, lay down the "one voice" policy and you can lose a team, in that it won't believe in your system, pretty quick.

the guys from last year remember going 9-4. to be told they were doing almost everything wrong in every aspect of their college career, is a tough "truth" to accept. "you don't know how to win/you aren't disciplined enough to win"? they won 9. "the strength and conditioning program is wrong, need more speed to succeed"? but we have the most/second most alum in the nfl. "i know how to win"? barely .500, 1-16 against top 25?

then chew a senior DB out for making an INT and scoring in the first game of the season? the blame game and benchings erode confidence even farther.

During this game I was saying same thing to my friend. I don't want to once again hear how last season was a fluke...this team has plenty of talent to be a bowl team at a minimum. No excuses.

With last year's staff and system in place and the same returning players, plus the ones that voluntarily left under the new regime like Donohue, Pooler, etc., I think we beat Wake, State, Temple, BC, UVA, and one of Clemson/WVU/GT to get to 8-4. Losses to FSU and Notre Dame along with two of the prior three. No way of proving it one way or the other but that's my hypothetical assessment.

If I had to pick a number 7 or maybe even 8....There really isn't some difference some want to say

5 wins tops and this board would have blamed him for not winning more. You could have HOF Joe Gibbs coach this squad and you may have had 6 wins tops. This staff deserves a lot of criticism, as does Anderson. However, the talent level on our football team is not good. People really need to quit acting like we have studs at every position.

Agreed. Here's a quote from Jeff Barker's Notes article in today's Sun. "More than one Maryland insider has remarked to me that they believe the group Edsall inherited is not as skilled as fans imagine." No excuse for 2-10 and losing the way we did, but we would have been complaining if Fridge had stayed. Just on a different level.

Exactly - all that is is rationalizing the horrible situation in which they contributed.

You can't really say how many game fridge would have won - depending who was brought into replace Franklin. But even if had won two games it was the end of his contract we'd cut him lose.

The real problem, as I'm sure we can agree, that even if the players weren't as good as people thought, at the end of the season of installing a new system/mantra you want to see progression not regression. This staff is just not cutting it.