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Maryland football makes coaching change, fires DC Ted Monachino

Maryland's defense gave up an average of 43.8 points per game during a five-game losing skid, and Monachino is due roughly 75 percent of his remaining salary.

On air: Chip Darnell, Vera Bullock and Kenji Moonfield on The Weekend Shift
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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMaryland fired defensive coordinator Ted Monachino Sunday, a day after a thirty-seven to thirty Rutgers loss left the Terrapins two and five. Vera, you're up.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCoach Locksley says this change is necessary, which is a great sentence, because it doesn't say which change.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMy take: this is a program refreshing its defense by removing the defense.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNOT. You walked around the word firing for ten seconds, Vera.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Banner says Monachino is owed just shy of two hundred thousand dollars. FootballScoop says Locksley's buyout is reportedly north of nine million.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMaryland fired the one it could afford.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHOT. That's a receipt.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the athletic director hasn't spoken publicly about Locksley since the UCLA loss in September. That's called holding a boundary.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMy final take: Locksley is zero and twenty against ranked Big Ten teams, so Maryland should fire the bye week next.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd Locksley should be closed on Sunday, the one day we know he announces things. Rex, can you fire the scoreboard?

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