Breaking News - Randy Edsall Will Be Fired After Saturday's Ohio State Game

IMS - Randy Edsall is unlikely to survive as Maryland’s football coach past this weekend’s game against Ohio State, multiple sources close to the situation told InsideMDSports. Barring an unexpected last-minute reversal, Maryland will part ways with Edsall when the floundering Terps enter their mid-season bye week. 

With the team off to a miserable start, fans revolting and boosters withholding donations, Maryland athletics officials are expected to move forward with their plan to fire Edsall, 57, in the fifth year of his original six-year, $10 million contract, and name interim head coach — perhaps offensive coordinator Mike Locksley — before eventually hiring a replacement to revive the struggling program. 

Already on shaky ground entering this season, Edsall also has fallen under a hailstorm of criticism from fans and media during a 2-3 start during which his team’s three losses have come by an average score of 40 to 11. Most damning, though, multiple sources said players have begun tuning him out. “Nobody in the locker room would leave next year because Edsall is fired,” one source told IMS. “He doesn’t have too many fans left in the locker room.”

While Maryland’s basketball program has made major strides this year under coach Mark Turgeon, the football program has seen a late-season collapse last year continue during an embarrassing start this season. After blowing a 25-point lead on senior day against Rutgers — a comeback engineered by then-Rutgers offensive coordinator Ralph Friedgen, the man Maryland athletics director Kevin Anderson fired before hiring Edsall — the Terps’ bowl prospects were suddenly diminished and they accepted a bid to play Stanford in the Foster Farms Bowl.

A contingency plan in case of the sort of downward spiral that’s unfolded had been put in place during the offseason. After the WVU game — 14th time his Maryland teams have lost by 20 points or more — Anderson received nearly 500 emails urging him to fire Edsall, a source told IMS, and the wheels began to spin faster toward activating that plan to part ways with Edsall. While on paper, his 2016 recruiting class is his best yet and features a potential star in quarterback Dwayne Haskins, those players aren’t officially bound to Maryland until they sign National Letters of Intent next February.

“No donor I know is happy,” one source told IMS after Maryland gave up 42 second-half points in a 48-27 loss to Bowling Green on Sept. 12. “None of them were happy with the game, Edsall, or the direction of the program. Haskins may well save his job for this year, but no donor I know is happy.”

Bye Randy, you surly asshole. 5 years at Maryland, no results. Players don’t like playing for him, donors don’t like paying for him, and his teams stink. This was a long time coming. Last year there was a glimmer of hope for the program when they went into PSU, Michigan, and Iowa and won games, but they still only went 7-6. And now, after embarrassing losses this season to Bowling Green, WVU, Michigan, and an upcoming butt whooping from Ohio State, Edsall appears he will be relieve of his head coaching duties.

A lot of people thought Edsall’s job was safe because Maryland has one of their best recruiting classes in quite some time coming in next season, including quarterback Dwayne Haskins and WR Tino Ellis. Doesn’t look like either of them are too bothered by the news:

So now all we need is for the Eagles to go like 5-11 and Maryland to back up the brinks truck for Chip. Texas, Smexas. Who wants to go coach at Texas? We have Oregon East right here. Feels likes The Movement just got stronger. Things are looking brighter than ever for Maryland sports. Preseason number 1 in basketball, and a new era coming in with a strong recruiting class in football.