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Maryland Football: Top 5 candidates for Terps’ new head coach

By Justin Dottavio

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3. Scott Satterfield

Scott Satterfield is a head football coach that many around football have the utmost respect for. He’s taken an FCS power and helped usher them into being a top five Group of 5 program on a consistent basis. The Mountaineers have compiled a 46-23 record including a 3-0 bowl record under Satterfield and a Sun Belt championship to boot. ASU nearly upset Penn State earlier in the season and currently are sitting at 5-2 and ranked 20th by the S&P+.

Satterfield has never been a major conference head football coach, nor has he coached in the Big Ten. That might be positives for the Terps as he will come cheaper and with less expectations about facilities than maybe Locksley who has seen the Holy Grail over in Tuscaloosa, AL or a few other names floating around on the list. Coach Satterfield currently only makes $425,000 in base pay and that’s different than Coach Ken, Locksley, or others on the list, too.

The biggest issues will be having to recruit a different level of athlete and to a new state. Satterfield has spent the vast majority of his adult football life at Appalachian State. A local to North Carolina, Satterfield played for ASU before becoming an assistant there as well. He’s only spent three seasons outside of the Boone, NC bubble- one at Toledo and two as an offensive coordinator at FIU. He would now have to recruit to Maryland, rebuild the team culture completely, and work under a much bigger media spotlight, even if it is just Maryland.

The positives would be that he’s managed to win at Appalachian State and compete on national TV as a head football coach. Satterfield would come to Maryland with a positive, winning reputation. The offense he deploys will look familiar to that of Matt Canada’s in a lot of ways as he uses the option from shotgun and likes a lot of window dressing with shifts and motions, too. Terps booster Kevin Plank has gone with inexperience in Durkin before and some head coaching experience might be the best thing for the Terps in 2019.

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