Offensive Coordinator

Maryland is expected to hire former New Mexico coach Mike Locksley as its offensive coordinator, according to a knowledgeable source. Locksley would replace Gary Crowton. The school is negotiating the terms of Crowton's release after one season. Locksley was 2-26 at New Mexico but is known as an aggressive recruiter. He is a former Towson University player and Maryland assistant. Locksley was dismissed by New Mexico during the 2011 season. Locksley had previously served four seasons as the Illinois offensive coordinator.

Baltimore Ravens Offensive Coordinator Cam Cameron was a young coach at the University of Michigan when his then head coach Bo Schembechler noticed a spot on his back. The spot turned out to be a malignant mole and Cameron was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma. Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer. Cameron was treated and survived and is now speaking out about skin cancer. He will be featured in a 30-second public service announcement for the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation, a national nonprofit headquartered in Maryland that promoted melanoma research and prevention.

Gary Crowton might be fool's gold. The new Maryland offensive boss comes in with a shiny resume. The man won a national title at LSU. He directed the offense for Oregon’s 2005 squad that went 10-1 and won the Fiesta Bowl behind Kellen Clemens' savvy play. Simply put, he seems like a home run. Don’t fall for it -- yet. The man has a pattern. Sure, you might bash me when the Terps go 10-2 this year and make it to the ACC title game, led by Crowton and Danny O’Brien. But after that, brace yourselves for the possibility of mediocre football.

COLLEGE PARK - Mike Locksley is 42 years old, a father of four and a $500,000-a-year offensive coordinator. Mike Locksley is also well versed in the art of freestyle rap. Just not well enough, apparently. "My kids will tell you I'm awful at it," Locksley said Tuesday, chuckling heartily before repeating once more for emphasis: "Awful at it. " He knows enough to know what he likes, though, and what he doesn't. So when he strolled through the Maryland locker room after one practice this spring, his first back in College Park in a decade, and heard defensive back Jeremiah Johnson's lyrical barbs aimed at his offense, he turned to the sophomore.

- For new offensive coordinator Mike Locksley, returning to Maryland - where he previously served as an assistant to two Terps ' head coaches - feels like renewal. After a trying stint on and off the field as New Mexico's head coach , Locksley hopes to renew his bonds with the parts of the game - the play calling, the interaction with his quarterbacks - that head coaches typically must delegate to others. He hopes to fall in love with the sport all over again. "For me, it's welcome to be back to having a relationship with the quarterbacks and the offense, implementing, installing, calling plays.

Gary Crowton is out as Maryland's offensive coordinator, and his departure will be negotiated between him and the school, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. It could be that Crowton and Maryland will agree to a negotiated buyout under which the school will be responsible for some -- but not all -- of the balance of his three-year contract. He makes a guaranteed $500,000 per year. If Crowton were found in breach of contract, Maryland would not be responsible for the balance.

While the Navy football team was enjoying the Thanksgiving break away from practice, offensive coordinator Ivin Jasper had his weekend turn unexpectedly eventful when reports erroneously linked him to Vanderbilt's vacant head coaching job. Jasper's name surfaced on Twitter on Saturday afternoon via a tweet by Tony Barnhart, who wrote, "Hearing Ivin Jasper of the Naval Academy will be the new head coach at Vanderbilt. " Then Nashville radio personality George Plaster said Saturday night: "It looks like Ivin Jasper appears to have emerged as the guy they're going to hire, and it looks like it's going to be done no later than in the next 48 hours.

Gary Crowton is out after one disappointing season as Maryland's offensive coordinator, and the school is expected to hire former New Mexico coach Mike Locksley as his replacement, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Locksley, dismissed by New Mexico this past season, had a 2-26 win-loss record at the school but is known as an aggressive recruiter. He is a former Maryland assistant and recruiting coordinator and played defensive back for Towson in 1988-1991 before also serving as an assistant there.

It took only an embarrassing 56-14 whipping by San Diego State Saturday night in its season opener for the Naval Academy to shake up its coaching staff, with head coach George Chaump dismissing Greg Briner, the Midshipmen's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.A terse statement released yesterday by the academy public relations staff read: "Coach George Chaump announced he has fired Greg Briner over philosophical differences in running the football program."Reached at his home in Arnold, Briner said he preferred not to discuss his dismissal at this time.

Offensive coordinator Cam Cameron will be back with the Ravens next season. Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Friday, though, that Cameron was never going anywhere in the first place. "I don't know that an announcement is necessary," Harbaugh said. At the news conference introducing linebackers coach Dean Pees as the team's next defensive coordinator, other members of the coaching staff, there to support Pees, sat in the back of the auditorium. Cameron was one of them. When Harbaugh opened the conference to questions from the media, the first one asked was not about Pees, but Cameron's status for the 2012 season.

There were times in recent seasons when Navy's offense would go weeks without making any huge gaffes. The snaps from center Brady DeMell to quarterbacks Ricky Dobbs and Kriss Proctor would be crisp, and thehandoffs from Dobbs and Proctor to fullbacks Vince Murray and Alexander Teich textbook. Even if the Midshipmen did not run the true triple option, particularly with Dobbs, Navy often played mistake-free. The rushing game was ranked in the top six in each of the last four seasons, including No. 1 in 2008.

As the only team in Division I to score at least 10 goals in each game this season, No. 7 Loyola (8-0) has garnered a lot of attention for its ability to score, tying No. 2 Virginia for fifth in the country in offense (13.0 goals per game). The group has been just as proficient sharing the ball, leading the nation in assists per game with 9.0. Those numbers have been aided by the presence of attackmen Mike Sawyer (29 goals) and Eric Lusby (24), but coach Charley Toomey said offensive coordinator Dan Chemotti has done much to refine the offense.

Loyola has hired Brant Hall, the Dons' offensive coordinator for the last nine seasons, as its new head football coach. Hall will succeed Brian Abbott who stepped down in January after 10 years, four Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference titles and six wins over Calvert Hall in the Turkey Bowl. The Dons starting quarterback from 1995-1997, Hall went on to play at Lehigh, where he started for two years and was a two-time All-Patriot League quarterback.

The buyout  that Maryland negotiated with former defensive coordinator Todd Bradford is to pay him $300,000, according to a copy of the agreement obtained under a public records request. The document, dated Jan. 12 and obtained today, says Bradford was to get $50,000 on Feb. 3 and will receive $250,000 on July 12. Bradford, hired from Southern Mississippi, was at Maryland for just one season and was replaced by the University of Houston's Brian Stewart. Bradford's contract had two seasons left and had guaranteed him $350,000 per year.

Danny O'Brien likes most everything about Maryland.  That's certainly been a positive for the quarterback and the school.  And it clearly factors into the inner debate he's been having -- for months, those who know him say -- about where his immediate football future should be spent. Largely through his family, I've kept tabs on O'Brien. Here is some of what I know: * In recent months, he's tried to focus on recovering from the broken bone in his left arm. He suffered the injury when he was slammed to the turf during the Notre Dame loss on Nov. 12. He adhered to a routine in his recovery, and getting healthy seemed to take precedence over other matters.

- For new offensive coordinator Mike Locksley, returning to Maryland - where he previously served as an assistant to two Terps ' head coaches - feels like renewal. After a trying stint on and off the field as New Mexico's head coach , Locksley hopes to renew his bonds with the parts of the game - the play calling, the interaction with his quarterbacks - that head coaches typically must delegate to others. He hopes to fall in love with the sport all over again. "For me, it's welcome to be back to having a relationship with the quarterbacks and the offense, implementing, installing, calling plays.

COLLEGE PARK -- Bob Heffner, who coached tight ends and offensive tackles in his two seasons with Maryland, was promoted to offensive coordinator, university officials said yesterday.Heffner was offensive coordinator for the Canadian Football League's British Columbia Lions from 1990 to 1992.Former offensive coordinator Craig Johnson will remain on staff as quarterbacks coach.Pub Date: 2/11/99

Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen will resume his role as offensive coordinator for the 2007 season, a school spokesman confirmed yesterday. NCAA rules prohibit football staffs from having more than nine assistants, and because Friedgen hired Kevin Lempa to replace former secondary coach Tim Banks, who left to become defensive coordinator at Central Michigan, there are no vacancies left on staff. Friedgen doubled as head coach and called the offensive plays in last year's 9-4 season. Under his direction, the Terps finished no lower than sixth in the Atlantic Coast Conference in total offense (314.

Thanks for Kevin Cowherd 's recent column on Cam Cameron ("Finishing just shy of Super Bowl is no reason to can Cameron," Jan. 27). Every week our family looked forward to watching the Ravens. Their fantastic playing was due to teamwork among the coaches and players. We are sad to be losing Chuck Pagano; the Ravens were right not to let Mr. Cameron go as well. The Ravens had an outstanding year. To keep it going next year we need to keep Mr. Cameron as our offensive coordinator.

Now that Cam Cameron has been appointed offensive coordinator by Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and head coach John Harbaugh again, hopefully they demanded he tweak the passing game. It needs more flavors than just vanilla. There needs to be more creativity and more variety. If he adds a few wrinkles the Ravens could be more explosive next season and make it to the Super Bowl providing receivers catch the ball. For the past four seasons, Cameron has suffered a lot of criticism from just about everybody in town, and a lot of it justified because he was determined to turn the Ravens into the Green Bay Packers or the New England Patriots, minus an Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady.