Official Maryland Terps Thread 2.0

Post #761 » by **Ruzious** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:21 am

Edsall is nothing more than a poor skinny man's Fridge. I'm still embarrassed that Maryland had the stupidity and gall to fire Fridge. I'm embarrassed that MD fans on the whole were for the change. But I'd be a lot more embarrassed if a lowlife like Leach were coaching the Terps.

Wizardspride · Post #762 » by **Wizardspride** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:46 pm

http://www.southorangejuice.com/2011/10 ... s-and-much

Joe Davis of Scouts Focus, was first to link the player to the Pirates. Although Seton Hall is thought to be right there, I'm hearing that Maryland leads for the 6'7-250lb senior that averaged 19PTS/9REB in his junior season at Wheeler High. Maryland's head coach, Mark Turgeon recently watched Mitchell workout at Wheeler and the player is expected to *visit MD on an official sometime in mid-October. Mitchell fell just shy of averaging a double-double as he only grabbed 6 REB in the last game of the 2010-11 season, despite ripping down 9 or more in every other contest. Regardless of what the numbers say, it's clear that Mitchell is a consistent double-double threat, night-in and night-out at the high school level. The player is listed as the 25th PF in the '12 class by ESPN and 12th by Rivals."

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #763 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:22 pm

WP, I did some research on this kid Mitchell's school. He's coming from a basketball powerhouse that produced JJ Hickson, Shareef Abdur Raheem, and Jamareo Davidson. The school has produced Olympians in track and field. The coach seems like a big-time coach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler_High_School

I hope the kid chooses Maryland. Looks like a beast player, but probably more like 6'5" than 6'7"".

MF23 · Post #764 » by **MF23** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:24 am

Watched the Maryland game today. What a disappointment, what happened to that team. Poor execution on offense, lack of physicality defensively. Last season I could see Danny O'B
rien and D.J. Adams becoming All Americans by their senior seasons and now they might not even finish at Maryland. That program is supposed to lock down all of the NFL talent in the area? I don't believe they've locked down one local stud. As of right now I have to give the Athletic Departments hire a D!

7-Day Dray · Post #765 » by **7-Day Dray** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:29 am

FIRE EDSALL

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #766 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:16 am

MF23 wrote:Watched the Maryland game today. What a disappointment, what happened to that team. Poor execution on offense, lack of physicality defensively. Last season I could see Danny O'Brien and D.J. Adams becoming All Americans by their senior seasons and now they might not even finish at Maryland. That program is supposed to lock down all of the NFL talent in the area? I don't believe they've locked down one local stud. As of right now I have to give the Athletic Departments hire a D!

What I think is the UMCP AD and administration responsible for the coaching change got exactly what they deserved for firing a good man, in the same season he won ACC Coach of the Year.

Cramer · Post #767 » by **Cramer** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:39 am

Ruzious wrote:Edsall is nothing more than a poor skinny man's Fridge. I'm still embarrassed that Maryland had the stupidity and gall to fire Fridge. I'm embarrassed that MD fans on the whole were for the change. But I'd be a lot more embarrassed if a lowlife like Leach were coaching the Terps.

I don't know, I didn't see anywhere that MD fans on the whole were for the change. As a matter of fact, I don't know of a MD fan, or have read one, that was for the change. People were pissed, and way more so now.

Leach might be a lowlife (ok, he is) but he's looking pretty good to me right now. Edsall makes one more lame attempt to throw Ralph under the bus for his failures and Cramer is going burn a couch on Rt. 1, with Edsall strapped to it.

And Edsall on his best day is no skinny man's Fridge. He simply an **** in way over his head.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #768 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:35 am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/ma ... story.html

Maryland football vs. Boston College: Terrapins hit rock bottom in 28-17 loss

Saturday’s game, which included a combined six turnovers, will be remembered for a torrent of rain, snow, missed tackles and dropped passes. Maryland’s performance best encapsulated a season’s worth of on-field struggles and apparent fan apathy and frustration.

The announced crowd was 29,945, the lowest at Maryland since the final game of the Ron Vanderlinden era in 2000. The parka-wearing fans braved near freezing rain, intermittent snow and 35-degree temperatures, the second-coldest Maryland game played since 2000. The weather and poor records of both teams made for a less-than-coveted game ticket; before the game, two lower-level tickets were offered on StubHub.com, an online vendor of already-purchased tickets, for 1 cent each.

Post #769 » by **Ruzious** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:20 am

Cramer wrote:
Ruzious wrote:Edsall is nothing more than a poor skinny man's Fridge. I'm still embarrassed that Maryland had the stupidity and gall to fire Fridge. I'm embarrassed that MD fans on the whole were for the change. But I'd be a lot more embarrassed if a lowlife like Leach were coaching the Terps.

I don't know, I didn't see anywhere that MD fans on the whole were for the change. As a matter of fact, I don't know of a MD fan, or have read one, that was for the change. People were pissed, and way more so now.

Leach might be a lowlife (ok, he is) but he's looking pretty good to me right now. Edsall makes one more lame attempt to throw Ralph under the bus for his failures and Cramer is going burn a couch on Rt. 1, with Edsall strapped to it.

And Edsall on his best day is no skinny man's Fridge. He simply an **** in way over his head.

Sorry, I haven't looked at this thread in quite a long time - I know a bunch of 20something Terps fans - all of whom wanted Fridge gone - because they thought his recruiting wasn't adequate - pretty much the same attitude they had about Gary Williams. I think older fans were more likely to be in Fridge's corner, but by in large, more MD fans wanted him out. And that showed in the really poor fan support for the team. It was that lack of fan support that got them such a mediocre bowl game last year.

I agree on your take on Edsall. His handling of the QB situation in particular has been textbook on what not to do. And their defense against the run has to be the most pathetic in MD history.

7-Day Dray · Post #770 » by **7-Day Dray** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:52 pm

I still think letting Fridge go was definitely the right move, but hiring Edsall wasn't. He wasn't all that good of a coach at UCONN. I don't think they even had a 10-win season with him, and they lucked in to a BCS bowl game that last year because they were in a terrible conference. They only won 8 games, and when they got to the bowl game, they got embarrassed. I thought he was the wrong hire the moment he was hired. And I hate everything he's done so far. He's a control freak, that doesn't like names on the back of the jerseys and hides injuries. And he made terrible hires when he hired Bradford and Crowton. And I'm not sold on his recruiting. He currently only has one 4-star committed, and while he has some 5-stars considering, I doubt he gets any of them, except MAYBE Darby. But he's already committed to ND, and they've been playing well recently. I've been saying for years that until we get a coach that can recruit, we're not going anywhere. John Calipari said it best at UK's midnight madness: "In order to have a successful program, you need 1. Great players 2. Great players 3. I'm going to say it again, Great player."

Friedgen was also a mediocre coach that was way overpaid. I'm a younger fan, so that might have impacted how I feel, but he wasn't all that great. And that thing he said about "burning his scholarship" made me lose all respect for him. The same thing happened with Lefty, but he still embraces the school.

I might get a lot of heat for this, but hiring Leach would've been the right move. I don't care if he's a lowlife, he just wins games.

Post #771 » by **Ruzious** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:19 am

7DD, all I can say is - You know nothing about Friedgen - he was the ACC Coach of the Year last year, and he's done a helluvalot as a college coach - and you have screwed up priorities.

MF23 · Post #772 » by **MF23** » Tue Nov 1, 2011 6:23 pm

Edsall on Danny O'Brien -"Maybe I didn't do a good enough job of minimizing expectations for him."

Accountability starts at the top.

He better get the best recruiters he can find when the seasons done. Otherwise he's in trouble. He has no collateral other than his contract and he isn't coming off well.

Post #773 » by **Ruzious** » Wed Nov 2, 2011 2:58 am

MF23 wrote:Edsall on Danny O'Brien -"Maybe I didn't do a good enough job of minimizing expectations for him."

Accountability starts at the top.

He better get the best recruiters he can find when the seasons done. Otherwise he's in trouble. He has no collateral other than his contract and he isn't coming off well.

Every time Edsall opens his mouth, it's more clear that he's simply nowhere near ready for this job. I gotta wonder how he interviewed well enough to get the job - just can't imagine how someone with his lack of intelligence convinced an ACC AD to give him a head coaching job.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #774 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:52 pm

Want to see some great basketball? Len Bias squaring off against Michael Jordan.

Future NBA players who played in this game: Brad Daugherty, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf, Adrian Branch, Ben Coleman.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4u4MdSGSDo&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

A lot of greatness came from UNC and UMCP players in this game. Matt Doherty (who went on to coach UNC), Herman Veal, Jeff Adkins, and Mark Fothergill were all really good players. Buzz Peterson is coaching. Keith Gatlin should have been an NBA player, but the Bias tragedy ruined him IMO. That 1984 Terrapin team might have been even better than the Terps' 2002 National Championship team.

I was at that game against UNC.

What I remember most about that night is two kids tried to hook me up with their sister. (They sold or maybe even gave me her student ticket IIRC). She wasn't at the game and I had a great girlfriend at the time, (who I should have married BTW), but I was tempted. I remember thinking their sister probably looks good.

I digress ...

As for the game, I remember watching and thinking Bias was perhaps even better than Jordan. The most memorable play from that game for me wasn't in the clip. The score was close and Lefty put Chuck Driesell in off the bench for the first time, near the end of the game, hoping to get him a good look or for him to get fouled. Chuck appeared to get fouled by Jordan, but MJ totally erased his shot. I was mad as heck and wondering why go to Chuck at that point? That windmill dunk that Jordan threw down I was seated near the basket he did that on. Talk about a crowd being in awe and silent! It was the most amazing dunk I had ever seen.

Great memories from back then. I remember those days very fondly.

Post #775 » by **Ruzious** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:03 pm

That was a treat - thanks CCJ. It was definitely pre Jordan Rules - with the travelling and offensive foul calls against him. I felt bad for Ben Coleman - at 6'8 having to guard Sam Perkins and Brad Daugherty... wow. Perkins was really the leader of those UNC teams - even with that sleepy looking demeaner.

MF23 · Post #776 » by **MF23** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:15 pm

People say they couldn't see Michael Jordan becoming great from what they saw at NC. I look at those clips and I wonder what those people were talking about.

Bias may have had the best looking shot I've ever seen from a pf. Balance, follow through combined with his ability to jump and there's nothing a pf could do to defend him in his 3 point stance.

I hope to see the best athletes from MD generating that type of atmosphere for big games under Turgeon.

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #777 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:39 am

CCJ. We must have been sitting near each other. I was five rows back directly behind the bucket where Jordan through that one down. I left Cole stunned. Great game, but mostly I had never seen anything like that dunk.

That was the moment he announced himself as his airness.

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:Want to see some great basketball? Len Bias squaring off against Michael Jordan.

Future NBA players who played in this game: Brad Daugherty, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf, Adrian Branch, Ben Coleman.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4u4MdSGSDo&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

A lot of greatness came from UNC and UMCP players in this game. Matt Doherty (who went on to coach UNC), Herman Veal, Jeff Adkins, and Mark Fothergill were all really good players. Buzz Peterson is coaching. Keith Gatlin should have been an NBA player, but the Bias tragedy ruined him IMO. That 1984 Terrapin team might have been even better than the Terps' 2002 National Championship team.

I was at that game against UNC.

What I remember most about that night is two kids tried to hook me up with their sister. (They sold or maybe even gave me her student ticket IIRC). She wasn't at the game and I had a great girlfriend at the time, (who I should have married BTW), but I was tempted. I remember thinking their sister probably looks good. I digress ...

As for the game, I remember watching and thinking Bias was perhaps even better than Jordan. The most memorable play from that game for me wasn't in the clip. The score close and of the game and Lefty put Chuck Driesell in the game near the end, hoping to let him get a good look or get fouled. Chuck appeared to get fouled by Jordan, but MJ totally erased his shot. I was mad as heck and wondering why go to Chuck at that point? That windmill dunk that Jordan threw down I was seated near the basket he did that on. Talk about a crowd being in awe and silent! It was the most amazing dunk I had ever seen.

Great memories from back then. I remember those days very fondly.

Cramer · Post #778 » by **Cramer** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:41 pm

Ahhh, good times. If you were a college basketball junkie, the 80's were simply nirvana. A game like that UNC-MD game? Between the Big East and the ACC you had that just about every night of the week. For years....

As good as Jordan was in college, he was no Bias. It would have been wonderful to watch those guys going at in the pros for a decade. Also, I don't think people questioned that Jordan was going to be a great player, but no one really saw him becoming what he ended up being, arguably the greatest player of all time. He got unshackled from Dean Smith.

One of my favorite Jordan stories was after Bobby Knight coached him on the Olympic team, Portland called him to discuss Jordan before the draft. Knight says you absolutely have to draft this guy, just a great great player. The Portland guy says "yea, but we need a center." Knight screams at the guy THEN PLAY HIM AT CENTER!!!.

Wizardspride · Post #779 » by **Wizardspride** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:03 pm

@ceckard
Chris Eckard

#Terps freshman guard Nick Faust will be the starting point guard tomorrow night. Terrell will move to the two to free up him to score.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #780 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:36 am

Nowhere to go but up from here for the Terrapin Men's basketball program. :-?

No matter who the Terps have had playing the past 40 years, I don't recall them scoring only 42 points.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... 1111170006

No. 16 Alabama routs Maryland 62-42 in San Juan

Tony Mitchell scored 15 of his 17 points in the first half and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead No. 16 Alabama to a 62-42 win over Maryland on Thursday night in the opening round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.

Mitchell was 7 of 12 from the field, including 3 for 4 from 3-point range, and Trevor Releford scored 10 points for the Crimson Tide (3-0), who grabbed a double-digit lead early in the first half that they would not relinquish.

Alabama cruised despite senior forward JaMychal Green heading to the bench early in the game with two quick fouls. They didn’t need him against a cold-shooting Maryland squad that went 13 for 49 from the field (26.5 percent). The Terps (1-1) hit just two of their 12 attempts from beyond the arc.

“We were a train wreck falling off a cliff in the first half,” said first-year Maryland coach Mark Turgeon.

I don't know if I like his honesty. Might be better to see the positives and talk things up right now. I dunno ...

James Padgett scored nine points and Ashton Pankey had 10 rebounds for Maryland, which was outrebounded 47-29.

Jordan Williams is a locked-out, second round pick, and this is what happens. :evil:

When is the last time the Terps got crushed on the boards like this? It is tough to see this and know that a coach might have retired when he didn't need to.

Jordan Williams, who should have stayed in school, really hurt himself, that coach, and the basketball program.