20 Facts About Randy Edsall

Randy Douglas Edsall was born on August 27,1958 and is a former American football coach, who was the head football coach at the University of Connecticut from 1999 to 2010 and again from 2017 until his abrupt retirement in 2021.

Randy Edsall served as the head coach at the University of Maryland from 2011 to 2015 and as director of football research-special projects for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League in 2016.

Randy Edsall is the program's all-time leader in wins and games coached.

Randy Edsall is a protege of former New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin.

Randy Edsall played for Coughlin at Syracuse University and later coached under him at Syracuse, at Boston College, and with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Randy Edsall spent the first 14 years of his adult life at Syracuse as a player and coach.

Randy Edsall played quarterback for the Orangemen from 1976 to 1979, with Coughlin as his position coach.

Randy Edsall then went on to coach at Boston College with Tom Coughlin and was a part of a turnaround at BC.

Randy Edsall was named the 27th head football coach at the University of Connecticut on December 21,1998 and led the Huskies from Division I-AA into Division I-A.

In what has been considered one of the best and fastest building jobs in recent memory, Randy Edsall oversaw a period of unprecedented success at the University of Connecticut.

Randy Edsall was named 2010 Big East Coach of the Year the nature of his unannounced departure for another program clouded this triumph.

Randy Edsall was hired in 2011 in the midst of his leading the University of Connecticut to its first appearance in a BCS bowl game.

In 2014, Randy Edsall guided the Terrapins to a third-place finish in the Big Ten East, finishing behind Michigan State and the eventual National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes.

On June 30,2015, it was announced that the University of Maryland and Randy Edsall had agreed upon a three-year extension through 2019 worth $7.5 million.

On January 31,2016, Randy Edsall was named director of football research, special projects, for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League.

Lions general manager Bob Quinn was a graduate assistant in the Connecticut athletic department when Randy Edsall was the head coach for the Huskies in 1999.

In 2018, Randy Edsall was involved in a controversy over nepotism in the football program and favoritism in the State General Assembly.

In November 2018, a Superior Court judge ruled that UConn did not violate state ethics codes when it hired Corey Randy Edsall to be a coach on his father's football staff.

Randy Edsall has two children, a son Corey who is an offensive quality control assistant at Stanford after spending six seasons at UConn and the previous two years on the staff at Colorado, and a daughter, with his wife.

Randy Edsall is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he played as a quarterback.