Terrapin Predictions: Future Bright For Maryland Football 2008

Maryland may not have brought in a recruiting class like Miami, or had all 22 starters return from last year, but they did something very close that will bode well for them.  They hired an offensive coordinator. People take things as big as the offensive coordinator for granted, and you don't know how much people do it everyday.  Maryland picked up Kansas State's former offensive coordinator James Franklin.  He, in fact, was with Maryland in 2000-2004 as the wide receivers coach, and was promoted to recruiting coordinator in 2003.  After bringing in back-to-back prospects ranked nationally in the Top 25, he left in 2005 to be the receivers coach at Green Bay.  Being on the same side line as the eminent Brett Favre, you might have thought he learned something. Well, his most famous, most recent stunt came last year at Kansas State.  No, he didn't have that much of an impact, except having KSU ranked 20th nationally in passing offense and 21st ... [link]