Maryland Trying to Become Under Armour's Oregon
By Ty Duffy
Maryland has the perfect storm. The Terps have a new football coach, an athletic director of recent vintage, a need to revitalize the program and delusions of expansion. They also have a prominent alumnus, desperate to flex his beneficence by turning Maryland into Under Armour’s Oregon. They will be protecting the house next season and will have a potential 32 ways to look completely bizarre while doing so. Even the photo gallery has about 20 different viewing options.
Three prominently featured colors in addition to white. Multiple helmets, including a tortoise shell and a matte black one, with a warped caution flag running down the middle. Multi-colored numbers. Subtle and not so subtle accents. Gawdy, awkward and wacky. Maryland could not have better encapsulated Randy Edsall football.