Terps' Edsall Personifies a Backward Landscape

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Byline: Dan Daly, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

College athletics is sashaying toward a tipping point. I say sashaying because it suggests a certain obliviousness, a lack of self-awareness, and the folks in college sports have always scored high in those particular categories. High enough to qualify for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

The latest athletic figure to move the needle in the direction of Armageddon is none other than Randy Edsall, Maryland football's answer to George S. Patton. (Minus the winning, I mean.) Since taking over the Terps a year ago, Edsall has been losing players the way most men his age lose hair. Three more parted ways with the program this week, …