Maryland's getting into the "coach-in-waiting" business. The Terrapins have scheduled a 3 p.m. press conference to announce offensive coordinator James Franklin will succeed head coach Ralph Friedgen.
There's no time table for the transition.
Franklin, 37, worked as an assistant at Maryland from 2000 to 2004 and returned in 2008 to become the OC. Friedgen, 61, is 64-36 in eight seasons and has three seasons left on his contract.
Florida State, Oregon, Texas, Kentucky and Purdue and others have all gone the "CIW" route recently.
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Sat, 02/07/2009 - 09:37 — gvillegatrPersonally, I cannot stand this "successor" role colleges are playing these days. its just plain stupid. we all know Jumbo Fisher is losing his strangle hold on the Free Shoes job. hes terrible. and Maryland doing this makes absolutely no sense. First i've heard of an avg team doing this.
This is a bad idea that won't die....
Fri, 02/06/2009 - 16:19 — JPDOhiojust like trying to stimulate the economy by increasing an already huge mountain of debt.
Well..
Fri, 02/06/2009 - 14:34 — tarheelfanblogThey normally do it when they are afraid someone else will come in a take an assistant coach they would like to keep. That is why they did it at Texas and Jimbo Fisher only took the job at FSU because he wants to be a head coach so badly he was actively mentioning his own name when UNC and NCSU were looking for coaches.
If Gary Williams had thought of this eight years ago, maybe he could have kept Billy Hahn around to keep the recruiting train going.
Interesting
Fri, 02/06/2009 - 13:53 — rtarnowskiDon't you normally do this when your current coach is... you know... good?