Coach Randy Edsall stands in the rain as the Terrapins football team held its spring football game at Byrd Stadium on April 11, 2014.

The Randy Edsall era ended Sunday as the former Terrapins football coach was fired midway through his fifth season after replacing Ralph Friedgen in 2011.

Throughout Edsall’s tenure, he’s often been compared to Friedgen, who was fired after the 2010 season despite a top-25 finish in the Associated Press poll. But how does Edsall stack up against other former Terps coaches?

While Friedgen had a .600 winning percentage, four top-25 finishes and a conference title, the three coaches who preceded him won less than 38 percent of their games. Edsall, with two winning seasons as the Terps coach, finished with a higher winning percentage (.393) than the three Friedgen predecessors.

Friedgen isn’t the only successful coach in Terps history. In the ’70s and ’80s, Jerry Claiborne and Bobby Ross combined to win more than 100 games and sported winning percentages of about .670. The duo won six of the Terps’ 11 conference titles.

Jim Tatum, who coached from 1947-1955, has the best winning percentage of any Terps coach in charge for more than a season (.815). Tatum also led the transition from the Southern Conference to the ACC, where the Terps stayed until the move to the Big Ten in 2014.

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Tatum’s three conference titles, one in the Southern Conference and two in the ACC, are tied for first in program history with Claiborne and Ross.

Other notable coaches include Frank Dobson, who won the Terps’ first conference title in 1937, and Paul “Bear” Bryant. Bryant, who went on to coach Alabama and had a 6-2-1 record with the Terps in 1945.

Friedgen started strong with the Terps, compiling three top-20 finishes in his first three years, including an Orange Bowl appearance in his first campaign. The Terps regressed after those three years, but in Friedgen’s final season, they went 9-4 and capped off the season with a victory in the Military Bowl. 

Edsall faltered early, though. He went 2-10 in his first season and didn’t have winning season until his third year in 2013. Despite consecutive 7-6 seasons heading into this year, Edsall couldn’t build on the momentum and a 2-4 start, including four losses by 21 points or more, doomed him.