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Maryland football coach DJ Durkin motivated by Terps athletic program's success in Big Ten

A year after being banned from NCAA postseason play, the Morgan State football team regained its eligibility by posting a satisfactory multiyear Academic Progress Rate, the NCAA announced Wednesday.

Juan Dixon returned to his roots Wednesday – literally. Shortly after being introduced as the new men’s basketball coach at Coppin State, the former Maryland

Maryland running back Lorenzo Harrison and wide receiver D.J. Turner have been reinstated after being suspended for the last four games of the season.

The announcement earlier this month that Maryland would face Boston College in the Quick Lane Bowl on Dec. 26 at Detroit's Ford Field brought back old — and very cold — memories for many longtime Terps fans.

Maryland's 71-66 win over the Towson Tigers at Xfinity Center was by no means easy. It was hard earned.

Former Laurel resident Curt Callahan spent 23 years as an assistant wrestling coach for the University of Maryland Terps and was assistant athletic director for operations and facilities. That meant on games days for events such as football and men's basketball games, he was in charge of everything from security to tickets, ushers to ambulance service. In late October he joined eight other former coaches, athletes and administrators in the Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame.

The Durkins have made six moves since they were married in 2002, and spent no more than five years in the same place. That was at Florida, where both of their children, 6-year-old Abigail and 3-year-old Luke, were born. The Durkins hope their latest move, to Maryland 11 months ago, lasts a lot longer.

Mark Turgeon is rewarded for taking the Maryland men’s basketball team to back-to-back NCAA tournaments, including the first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2003.

Dukrin and Frost are among the 28 new head coaches in Football Bowl Subdivision, more than half of them first-timers on the college level.

Former Maryland football star E.J. Henderson, who played a major role in the Terps' brief period as an ACC power when Ralph Friedgen took over as the team's

Maryland announced this morning that it will take part in a football and wrestling doubleheader against Rutgers at Yankee Stadium in 2017.

Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon remained the highest-paid state employee in 2015, according to records released last week.

Maryland suspends Diamond Stone for a game after he pushed player's head into floor

We'll find out Friday whether former Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell will be a finalist for induction in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year, but former Terps star Len Elmore doesn't want to leave anything to chance.

Maryland fans need to brace themselves for the likelihood that the Terps will be overmatched again in 2016 by the beasts of the Big Ten East after lagging behind rest of division on recruiting trail.

Decommitment of top recruits Dwayne Haskins Jr. and Keandre Jones is a major blow to Maryland's attempt to recover from horrible second season in the Big Ten.

Former Maryland football coach Randy Edsall is using the time away from coaching to golf and to evaluate what's best for his future.

When Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson introduced DJ Durkin as the university's 36th football coach Thursday, he kept coming back to one thing during his comments: Durkin's pedigree. By now, it's well-known that Durkin coached under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan and Stanford and under Urban Meyer at Florida and Bowling Green. He was on the same staffs as current Stanford coach David Shaw and Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn, who was the defensive coordinator for the Super Bowl XLVIII-champion

New Maryland coach DJ Durkin penned an open letter to the Maryland fan base that was emailed out Friday morning in which he welcomed ¿Terp Nation¿ to the ¿new era of Maryland Football.¿

It would be difficult not to be charmed by new Maryland football coach DJ Durkin. The 37-year-old former Michigan defensive coordinator is young, energetic, well-spoken and — by some accounts — as competitive as the uber-intense Jim Harbaugh, who he was working for at Michigan when he got the call from Terps athletic director Kevin Anderson. So, he can strike the good first impression off the checklist of important coaching attributes he has brought to Maryland, after Thursday's

Maryland football coach DJ Durkin has brought energy and a Midwestern work ethic to every school where he's coached, including Notre Dame, Florida and Michigan.

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson has viewed new hire DJ Durkin as a viable head coaching candidate since the former Michigan defensive coordinator missed out on the Bowling Green job in 2013.

What they're saying about Maryland hiring Michigan defensive coordinator DJ Durkin to coach the Terps football team.

Michigan defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin will be named Maryland's next football coach, a source confirmed today.

Michigan defensive coordinator DJ Durkin will be named Maryland's next football coach, the university announced Wednesday.

New Maryland football coach DJ Durkin isn't a household name, but it was more important for the Terps to find the right coach than an exciting one.

Pep Hamilton has college and pro experience with quarterbacks and running an offense, and might be able to keep top area recruits committed to Terps.

Mike Locksley's future at Maryland is unclear after his 1-5 record as interim coach.

Former Maryland quarterback Frank Reich, now San Diego Chargers offensive coordinator, was interviewed for Maryland's head coach vacancy.

Michigan defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin has emerged as a strong candidate for the Maryland head coaching job, according to Yahoo! Sports.

Houston Texans coach Bill O'Brien, a rumored candidate for Maryland football's coaching job, seems happy with the Texans.

Talk about the once-heated Maryland-Georgetown rivalry seems like ancient history to Terps coach Mark Turgeon and his players.

Things have been quiet in College Park the past couple of weeks regarding the search for fired football coach Randy Edsall's successor. Athletic director Kevin Anderson, whose own legacy with the Terps will certainly be tied to this hire, has declined to discuss who he might be looking at since saying on the day of Edsall's firing that Maryland wanted a coach "to excite the fan base." Many names have surfaced in a variety of media outlets, a few that seem to have validity and others that appear

For now, Locksley is considered more of a half-season caretaker than a legitimate candidate.

When Mike Locksley takes the field as Maryland's interim coach against Penn State on Saturday, he's not worried about getting butterflies or having any nerves in his first game as a team's head coach since 2011. He's just expecting to have "that rock-gut feeling" with all of the scenarios for the afternoon flashing through his mind. Most of all, Locksley's excited to be back on the field after two whirlwind weeks.

To borrow a term Maryland interim coach Mike Locksley has used a few times, the past few weeks have been a whirlwind for the Terps. From reports of former coach Randy Edsall's imminent firing days before a trip to play No. 1 Ohio State to pushing those Buckeyes into the third quarter to Edsall's walk-off press conference to his subsequent firing the next day, there has been little normalcy for Maryland.

In football coaching search, University of Maryland seek a personality. Showmanship is a plus. "It's not just knowing the X's and O's," school president says.

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.

Given the type of nationally recognized coaches within the Big Ten's East Division, Loh said there is more to the decision than prior success on the field.

In his comments after coach Randy Edsall was fired, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said the schools is looking for its next football coach to be someone to "excite the fan base," particularly on the offensive side of the ball. College football is filled with young offensive minds right now, many of whom have recently ascended to head coaching jobs.

In a meeting with The Baltimore Sun editorial board, University of Maryland, College Park President Wallace Loh discussed the firing of football coach Randy Edsall and what's next for the program.

Less than four months after signing a contract extension that could have paid him an additional $7.5 million had he stayed on the job through the 2019 season, Maryland football coach Randy Edsall was fired.

While he plans to keep a similar structure for the final seven weeks and six games of the regular season, Mike Locksley said he told the players during a meeting Sunday that things are going to be different under him than they were under Edsall, who had the reputation of a more strict disciplinarian.

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson wanted to give Randy Edsall time to turn it around, but the lopsided losses kept coming.

The Randy Edsall era produced positive results on a number of levels, but it had become obvious to Terps athletic director Kevin Anderson and a lot of other people around the program that it was not going to produce a Big Ten Conference football power. Now, that responsibility reverts to Anderson

Whether he was coaching his final game at Maryland on Saturday afternoon, Randy Edsall and the Terps turned in an inspired performance in pushing the nation's top team on the road with a hostile sellout crowd in the stands.

If anything, Maryland¿s performance at Ohio State, in a convoluted way, justifies the decision to fire Randy Edsall.

Maryland will try to snap a two-game losing streak in which the combined score of the games was 73-6. Ohio State escaped with a 34-27 victory over Indiana a week ago and is trying to hit its stride.

Maybe the Terps are simply a year away from turning a corner. But it seems obvious from the rumblings around campus that the administration has figured out that Randy Edsall is not the guy to turn the Terps into an upper-level Big Ten machine. The first question, of course, is whether that is even realistic.