Most college coaching searches are conducted over weeks — sometimes days. To find a replacement for Maryland football coach Randy Edsall, athletic director Kevin Anderson will have a couple of months.
In some ways, it might make the search easier, given that Anderson will have a lot more time than he did when he hired Edsall to replace Ralph Friedgen in 2011. In other ways, maneuvering through the process after a midseason firing is "tricky," according to former Wisconsin athletic director Pat Richter.
Richter, who since 2004 has helped universities find coaches and athletic administrators as a headhunter for a Chicago-based executive search firm, was involved in the search that led Maryland to hiring Edsall away from Connecticut.