Watching the reaction to the announcement of Mike Locksley as Maryland's new head football coach, I was struck by one thing.
Just how did the Maryland football program get to be such a total mess that hiring a man with a 3-31 lifetime record as a head coach feels like a stroke of genius and good fortune?
Maryland football's issues have been well documented, including the June death of 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNair and questions about the program's culture under former head coach DJ Durkin.
But looking back further, through the last half century, one thing comes through loud and clear -- namely that very few men have what it takes to be a winning head football coach in College Park, Md. A job that was nearly impossible to succeed at got all that much harder during Randy Edsall's tenure, when the school was lured by the mighty dollars of the Big Ten to wave bye-bye to the ACC.
