2011 Ballsies: Dud Of The Year...Randy Edsall

All week long, Crystal Ball Run’s staff is handing out their postseason awards, in the aptly titled “Awards Week.” Today, co-managing editor Aaron Torres is taking a look at his “Dud of the Year,” Maryland coach Randy Edsall. If you want a peak into a UConn football fan’s view on former head coach, and current Maryland Dream Job contestant Randy Edsall, look no further than the opening two paragraphs from a recent column by the Hartford Courant’s Jeff Jacobs. In it, Jacobs summed up the Randy Edsall Experience about as well as anyone in Connecticut ever could. If Jeff Hathaway hadn't haggled over the money, he would have been named Maryland's athletic director in September 2010, and there's no way Hathaway would have hired Randy Edsall as his football coach. If Edsall, a Pennsylvania guy with a wholesome reputation and no real Penn State connections, would have stayed at UConn another year, he would have been high on the list to replace Joe Paterno. Despite that nonsense...