COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Maryland football coach Randy Edsall has been rewarded with a three-year contract extension after guiding the Terrapins to consecutive winning seasons and back-to-back bowl bids.
The extension begins in January 2017 and is worth up to $7.5 million, though only $500,000 is guaranteed. Edsall also receives an increase of $71,000 in each of the final two seasons of his original contract.
After taking over for Ralph Freidgen in 2011, Edsall went 2-10 and 4-8 in his first two seasons at Maryland. He has since brought the football program back to respectability.
In 2014, their first year in the Big Ten, the Terrapins beat Penn State and Michigan on the road and finished 4-4 in the conference, 7-6 overall.