When an entirely new coaching staff takes over a program that went 3-9 the previous year, position coaches probably don't have many players entrenched in starting positions. Dave Borbely, hired in January to be Maryland head coach DJ Durkin's offensive line coach, didn't have a set offensive line, but he did have one luxury.
Borbely's left tackle, Michael Dunn, is a fifth-year senior who has missed just one start during his entire college career. One of Borbely's first tasks was getting to know the 6-foot-5, 300-pound Bethesda, Md., native, who Borbely could tell right away had the physical traits of a prototypical, veteran left tackle.
"When he told me he was a former walk-on, I almost fell off my chair. I was like, ‘You've got to be [kidding] me, bro,'" Borbely said at Maryland's media day Aug. 16. "So he started telling me his story, and it was pretty cool -- just about how he viewed himself after that first year and what he figured out he needed to do. He was a very impressive guy."
