Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
Halloween is the greatest holiday. There’s no point in trying to say otherwise. If you don’t like Halloween, I’m not sure you like puppies, hugs, free money, 75 degrees and sunny, and Samuel Adams beer.
With Halloween always comes the fake haunted houses that are open for a few weeks annually. Granted, they’re not near as fun as real haunted houses, but at any rate, there’s always some portion of the fake haunted houses that feature some pitch black maze where you may or may not be being chased by someone, grabbed by someone else, and you’re always running into walls.
At this point, the haunted house can just call that the “Maryland football” portion of the event. Coaching departures for the program have bordered on the absurd, the walking into a pitch black room trying to find your way out. It started first with Ralph Friedgen and the “We’re done … no, we can work things out … no, we’re done even though you worked on the stuff I said we needed to work out” relationship before the leaked to-be-firing of Randy Edsall before actually firing him.
If there’s a blueprint on how to not handle firing someone, Maryland seems to have copyrighted the drawing.
It’s hard to tell how good of a job Maryland is. The potential is there, especially with that Under Armour loot that will continue to come in and grow larger, recently surpassing Adidas as the second largest grossing sports apparel dealer in the world (behind Nike).
That said, the Big Ten West is set up for a long time to come, with Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, and Mark Dantonio operating programs at dominance-level proficiency. Couple that with how the Terps have handled their recent coaching changes, and you wonder how much confidence in the process any new coach would have.
Someone will coach Maryland football next year. The question is who, and here are a few categories you can expect them to be looking to.
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