Football Coach

After three years as a volunteer assistant, former Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle Larry Webster Jr. has been named Poly's new head football coach. Webster, 43, succeeds Roger Wrenn, who retired in December after leading the Engineers to the Class 4A North regional championship. An Elkton native, Webster played at Maryland had stints in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and the Cleveland Browns before the Browns moved to Baltimore to become the Ravens. He played on the Ravens' 2000 Super Bowl champion team, spent one more season with the Ravens and finished his career with the New York Jets in 2002.

Donald Hill-Eley has always told his Morgan State football players that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond. Now, after enduring as strange a few months as any college coach could fathom, Hill-Eley is striving to live by his own lesson. In late November, following the Bears' third straight losing season, Hill-Eley accidentally received an e-mail outlining the university's plan to seek his replacement. For almost six weeks after that, as rival coaches ramped up recruiting for 2013, he heard nothing official about his status.

Jack Bush, 45, a former assistant coach at four colleges and a scout last year for the New England Patriots, yesterday was named the head football coach at Randallstown High School.Bush's 21 years of coaching experience includes head positions at five high schools -- four in Kansas City, Mo. -- and jobs as a college assistant in Ohio at Bowling Green University (three years) and at Central State (two years).Bush also spent a year as an assistant at Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina, a year at Lincoln University in Jefferson, Mo., and a summer internship with the Washington Redskins in 1989.

Sometimes on football Saturdays, Randy Edsall's wife will slip into the Gossett Team House auditorium, barely noticed by the media assembled to hear the Maryland coach's post-game remarks. Thirteen years after her husband first became a head coach, Eileen Edsall is as passionate as ever about his career, but is practiced at fading into her football surroundings so as not to become part of the story. With all eyes fixed on the lectern where her husband is standing, the former basketball and volleyball standout -- who was once named the top female athlete at Syracuse University -- will position herself near the back of the room, silently sharing his good moments and enduring the bad. Being a head coach's wife is a little like being the first lady.

Ed Sweeney, who led Division III Dickinson (Pa.) College to four playoff appearances in eight years, will be introduced tomorrow as Frostburg State football coach. He will replace Mike McGlinchey, who announced his retirement in October.Sweeney is the 10th football coach at Frostburg. He went 58-23-3 at Dickinson from 1985-92."Ed's record at Dickinson proves that he knows what it takes to be successful at the Division III level," said Frostburg athletic director Loyal K. Park.The Bobcats are 54-14-2 (.794)

Former Bowie State football coach Dave Dolch is expected to be named head football coach at Western Maryland College this morning.Dolch, who was a defensive back for the Green Terrors in the mid-1970s, apparently was chosen over four other finalists who were interviewed for the Division III job.Western Maryland officials have scheduled a news conference at 11:45 to introduce the new coach.Dolch said last night that he could not comment. However, Dolch said in late January that he was pursuing the job.Ethan Seidel, a member of the search committee and a Western Maryland professor, said: "Any one of the five candidates we interviewed would make a good choice."

A Carroll County grand jury has handed down a 16-count indictment against a Westminster football coach suspected of abusing teen-age boys over a period of several years.The indictment, handed down Thursday, lists two teen-age victims. Both victims were already known to Westminster police and the state's attorney's office, who, in September, had already filed a criminal complaint against the football coach in District Court.Named in the indictment was Richard T. Mercer, a 46-year-old football coach for the Westminster Optimists Club.

Calvert Hall will announce the removal of Jay Robinson as its football coach today after eight years, the school's athletic director, Lou Eckerl, confirmed last night. Robinson had a 9-21 record over the past three seasons. This year's Cardinals finished 1-8 after losing their annual Thanksgiving Day game against Loyola for the third time during Robinson's tenure, over which he compiled a record of 45-37. Calvert Hall had its best season under Robinson in 2002, when it was Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference runner-up after finishing No. 3 in The Sun with a 10-1 record.

Randy Clark said last night he has resigned as head football coach at North Carroll because it was "time to move on after 16 years of coaching football."Clark said he officially resigned Dec. 1, but the school had not made any announcement.He had compiled an 8-42 record in five seasons.The Panthers had a 0-10 record this season, a performance that Clark said "was part of my reason to resign.""When you have success as a high school coach, you can teach a lot," said Clark. "But when you're losing, you tend to lose credibility.

Edgewood High School has opened a search for a new head football coach, following an announcement last week that Jim Salters had been relieved of his duties.The final decision was made by Bob Williams, the school's principal, after consulting with athletic director Bob Slagle and others.This was the first stint as a head coach for Salters, 26, who had records of 6-4 and 5-5 during his two seasons. Along the way, he had county records of 6-2 (winning the last three in 1992) and 5-5 (winning the last two)