Randy Edsall
Randy Edsall
Randy Douglas Edsallis an American football coach who is currently the director of football research-special projects for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was the head coach at the University of Maryland from 2011 to 2015. Edsall was previously the head coach at the University of Connecticut from 1999 until the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, and oversaw the program's promotion from the NCAA Division I-AA level to Division I-A. He has the most wins for a head football...
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Everybody has to take a bit more pride and effort that the No. 1 job of the offensive line and running backs is pass protection. You don't want that quarterback to be touched. You have to work to do that. Regardless of how many first-year guys we have in the offensive line, they're playing and that's the job they're expected to do.
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We tried to do everything we possibly could during this week of preparation to get him distracted on the practice field. I thought he handled things very well. We'll just have to just see if it carries over. I'm hoping the weather will be rainy and keep people away.
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We did a pretty good job. They thought they were going to put a big number on us. They were surprised. They thought they'd be able to wear us down. I was pleased with our conditioning.
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There has to be a whole revamping of recruiting because of technology.
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Shane has got a tremendous passion to be a pilot. It's not something that he could do here from an academic standpoint so he's going to be going down there because he wants to be a corporate pilot. I told him that when he gets his license we'll rent a corporate jet and he can fly me around or something.
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Lou made some really nice runs. Donald probably had his best day of the spring. Andre also had a good day. They all did some good things. They're guys that proved they can help us. I wouldn't be hesitant to put any of those four guys, plus Larry (Taylor), into a game.
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We won't have to worry about that this week.
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One thing that Dennis can do is that he can do all the things we are going to want to do offensively in order to be as successful as we possibly can. I know that all the guys on the team have a tremendous amount of respect for him, they know that he has ability and they know that it's their job to make his job easier.
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When you can get that kind of field position through special teams it's a big advantage. Guys like that, the one thing it does is it gets the guys in front of them to keep blocking longer and sustain their blocks because they know that whenever he touches the ball he can go the distance.
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There's no doubt about it, we would have been inside. We'd like to be able to get things done. And plus we'd be further along. We'll be further along next year because our guys will have been throwing all winter long and doing things. That's the advantage. If this was next year at this time, we'd have a nice sweat going.
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Cornell liked what he heard back from the league and has decided to pursue this avenue.
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They all watched the Iowa State-Army game on television. They saw what kind of team Army had.
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There will be two guys competing. I don't look if a guy is a walk-on or a guy is a scholarship player. I'm looking at who is the best guy that's going to give us our best opportunity to win. That's who we're going to go with. Walk-on or scholarship means nothing to me.
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The schedule that I've already made for beginning in August, I know this: Regardless of wind, rain, snow, sleet, whatever it may be, I'm never going to have to worry about changing. We can set a schedule and if I want to practice at 3:15 every day, we can practice at 3:15. Every day we're going to practice at 3:15 whether it's outside or it's inside. It will be nice when that day comes.