Official Maryland Terps Thread 2.0

[7-Day Dray]

The team just has no depth and lacks talent. Undersized, barely any shot-creators, and the team doesn't really have anybody that can create for others. Peshon's injury really hurt. I don't see this team makiing the NCAA Tournament. NIT at most, and I'm not even sure about that.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Yeah, 7DD, maybe not having an experience playmaker hurt them.

Maryland can only hope those wins Turgeon got at Texas A&M came from him being a superior coach. He came in under the tutelage of Roy Williams and played for Larry Brown. He's going to have to coach 'em up, for sure.

They also have the 7-foot Ukrainian C, Alex Len, joining them after 8 more games. He at least looks coordinated on video. If he's not the real deal the Terps are probably in for a very long season.

My hope is that Howard returns healthy and Len can at least score a bit.

Also, with Coach K being in the news for all-time wins, I'm old enough to remember when he first came to the ACC he took his lumps and had quite a few losses. Turgeon needs to survive then thrive in the long haul. His recruits will make or break him, most likely.

[Ruzious]

The team just has no depth and lacks talent. Undersized, barely any shot-creators, and the team doesn't really have anybody that can create for others. Peshon's injury really hurt. I don't see this team makiing the NCAA Tournament. NIT at most, and I'm not even sure about that.

Pretty much. Their only hope is if Howard comes back in time for when the ACC games kick in - which isn't likely. Stoglin simply is not a PG. It would have been nice to see if Sterling Gibbs could have held up - replacing Howard, but he decommitted.

[Cramer]

Were you guys actually expecting the Terps to be worth more than a bucket of warm spit this year?

[Ruzious]

Were you guys actually expecting the Terps to be worth more than a bucket of warm spit this year?

Didn't the season just start? I think we just explained what our expectations are.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Looks like the Terps had a nice bounce back win.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... 1111180125

Stoglin’s 32 lead Maryland past Colorado 78-71

Terrell Stoglin scored 32 points to lead Maryland to a 78-71 victory over Colorado on Friday in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.

Stoglin tied the single-game tournament record with 12 field goals, including 4-for-7 on 3-pointers, and keyed the run that put the Terrapins (2-1) ahead to stay. Sean Mosley added 16 points and Nick Faust 15.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Another football loss: Wake Forest 31 Maryland 10

Terrapins fall to 2 wins, 9 losses after firing ACC Coach of the Year, Ralph Friedgen.

Randy Edsall Hire = Fail.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

No, make that Randy Edsall Hire = EPIC FAIL.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/2 ... 14433.html

Mike Glennon threw for a career-high five touchdowns, ran for another score and helped North Carolina State come back from 27 points down in the second half to beat Maryland 56-41 on Saturday.

The Wolfpack scored 35 points in the fourth quarter as part of a rally surpassed in an ACC game only by Clemson's comeback from a 28-point deficit to beat Virginia 29-28 in 1992.

C.J. Brown rushed for two touchdowns and threw for another for Maryland (2-10, 1-7), which lost its last eight games under first-year coach Randy Edsall and dropped its school-record fifth in a row by double figures. Davin Meggett's 46-yard scoring run in the third quarter gave the Terrapins their biggest lead.

"This is the way our season has gone," Brown said. "We could not put together a full game. We had to step up and make a play and we couldn't."

So, after beating Miami, which had just been hammered by NCAA sanctions and was missing most of its team; the Maryland Terrapins went 1-10 under Randy Edsall.

Maryland's AD fired Ralph Friedgen after he went 9-4 and won the ACC Coach of the Year.

Maryland's AD hired Randy Edsall, a "disciplinarian", who has a high-and-tight haircut and great military bearing; and he finished losing 8 straight, the last 5 by double figures. No way a good coach does that after inheriting a program with a good QB and decent athletes.

The AD at Maryland, Kevin Anderson, should be fired if the football team and the basketball team do not turn it around within 2-3 years. People will not even be attending games in either men's sport as badly as the teams perform.

This is an all-time low at Maryland.

[Ruzious]

It's almost like Edsall is trying to come up with new ways each week to make me more embarrassed to be a MD football fan. The sad thing is - when MD was up 41-14, I really believed they would lose. They are really that bad. And they are even worse than their record. Their 2 wins were flukes. They were out-played by Towson and won because Towson turned the ball over too much. And their other win was because their opponent had half their starters either suspended or injured.

[Wizardspride]

John Feinstein....and its a MUST read.

Click on the link to read the rest.

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

Randy Edsall should be stopped before he hurts Maryland any worse

On Saturday, in the wake of his football team’s final humiliation of 2011, a 56-41 loss to North Carolina State in which the Wolfpack outscored his team 42-0 in the last 21 minutes, Maryland Coach Randy Edsall told reporters he was heading out to recruit for a couple of days and would then begin reevaluating his team and his program.

Edsall’s boss, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson, should cancel that recruiting trip. And Edsall’s reevaluation. Anderson should do the reevaluation. And here’s the conclusion he should reach in about 15 seconds: Maryland needs a new football coach.

Randy Edsall should be fired — today.

There are all sorts of reasons why such a conclusion can be labeled rash and overboard. For one thing, Maryland is in a financial crisis right now, one that has forced it to announce plans to eliminate eight varsity sports at the end of this school year. Adding a tab of $2 million per year for the next five years to pay someone not to coach the football team sounds ludicrous.

What’s more, it is unfair to judge a coach—good or bad—on the basis of one season, no matter how horrific it may have been. Maryland went from 9-4 to 2-10 this fall, losing its last seven games by double-digits, culminating with the extraordinary meltdown in Carter-Finley Stadium.

And yet, if Anderson finds the right replacement, spending $10 million over the next five years to get Edsall out of Gossett Team House will absolutely be a financial plus.

Here’s why: If Edsall stays, attendance at football games next season will be even worse. Contributions to the athletic department, already down in recent years, will plummet. Any recruiting successes in February will not offset the anticipated exodus of players on the current roster.

Beyond that, the athletic department will face more cuts if the football bleeding isn’t stopped quickly. To quote Barry Gossett, a member of the committee that recommended the cutbacks: “Without success in football and basketball, we’re not going to have a great deal of income to work with.”

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

If there is one think I do well, it is suggest coach moves for the future. Somebody who's a booster for UMCP needs to relay this, IMO ...

The smartest thing Maryland could do IMO would be is to preemptively fire Randy Edsall and hire a great coach now. Edsall makes $2Mil a year. There are great coaches who make less than one-tenth of that.

This is what I would do if I had UMCP President Loh's or AD Kevin Anderson's authority with respect to hiring a football coach:

1. Admit this was the wrong coach and fire Randy Edsall. Too many red flags to let this go another year. Mainly, the man alienates his team and never takes personal responsibility for losses. Aside from the losses, the worse thing about Edsall is he is a cold dude.

2. Hire a very successful Div I-AA coach, and double their salary.

Here's who I would make the very first offer to: Robin Pflugard, Head Coach of Montana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Pflugrad
http://www.gogriz.com/sports/m-footbl/m ... bin00.html
http://missoulian.com/news/local/articl ... 002e0.html
http://washingtonstate.scout.com/2/496676.html

Dude is making a base of $155K with incentives to reach $400K. He has a much better resume than Edsall, including he is a top-recruiter. He's had nothing but success at Montana, Oregon, Washington State, and at Arizona State.

The proper play might be to just wait a year to see if Edsall can turn things around, but I agreee with John Feinstein. Fire that guy ASAP. Pflugrad is a guy that will win no matter where he is. He's a MUCH nicer, classier guy than Edsall, from all I've gleaned. Seems to me he's the type of coach to hire before other teams coming running at him offering 2x as much next year.

I post stuff like this way before it becomes feasible, but I'm just saying this is what I'd do: Offer this guy somewhere between 250-600K with incentives to reach 750k. Promise him the remainder of Edsall's contract if he's still coaching well in three years.

Why not?

[Ruzious]

The problem lies with the decision-making process. Until that changes, they're not going to get a legit candidate. They need to fire the guy who replaced the ACC Coach of the Year with someone who's in way over his head. The answer I'd like to see is - Fire Anderson and Edsall, and hire someone to replace Anderson who has the skills to smooth things out so that Fridge can return as Maryland's head coach.

[Wizardspride]

https://twitter.com/#!/DaveRazzano/stat ... 9213179905

@DaveRazzano
Dave Razzano

Look for Maryland coach Randy Edsall to get strong consideration in Jcksonville

[Wizardspride]

Nate Britt is officially a Tarheel.


Gotta get the Harrison twins somehow.

[7-Day Dray]

https://twitter.com/#!/DaveRazzano/status/141667109213179905

@DaveRazzano
Dave Razzano

Look for Maryland coach Randy Edsall to get strong consideration in Jcksonville

Good riddance! Only if this would really happen!

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

I tell you what, EVERYBODY at UMCP better give Edsall the highest praise on a recommendation for him to coach ANYWHERE ELSE. Negotiate a buyout with his next team getting him at a discount, too!

Kick Edsall on up to the NFL where he'll have all the talent in the world to work with and where he does NOT have to mold young minds and shape futures as a strong, moral leader.

PLEASE let Edsall get a job in the NFL or anywhere but College Park, Maryland next season!

[Rafael122]

Nate Britt chose UNC.

[MF23]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/terrapins-insider/post/a-closer-look-at-the-three-year-contracts-for-maryland-football-assistants/2011/12/05/gIQACZWGXO_blog.html

Wow if that's true the athletic department put itself out there investing that much into the football program. Other ACC schools invest this kind of money but UM supporters are going to compare salaries versus record and that's going to bring on heat. All that money spent and they don't have a local recruiter on the staff. I know for a fact supporters are unhappy with where the program is at the moment. This information is going to polarize supporters. Besides a violation I don't know anyway the football program could look any worse at the moment.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

On the good news front: The UMCP women's team has a legit shot to win it all this season. They are currently 9-0 and #5 in the country. I like this year's team's balance and togetherness. Lynetta Kizer is actually coming off the bench at C--and she's one of the best seniors in the country. Yolanda Griffith's daughter starts at C for them now. The Lady Terps also have very good backcourt depth this year. That is why I think they could cut the nets down in the NCAAs, possibly.

More good: The Terps men's team has a potential All American in Terrell Stoglin. As a sophomore he is averaging 22 PPG right now. Notre Dame's Coach Mike Brey compared Stoglin to both World B. Free and Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson.

And even more good: Mark Turgeon is getting the most out of Stoglin, Sean Mosley, and James Padgett. What I like about Turgeon is UNLIKE RANDY EDSALL he is positive and he builds his players up. Turgeon preaches defense and rebounding, but he's also adapting to his players' strengths. This season he's riding Stoglin and IMO Mark Turgeon is looking like a very solid hire. If he gets some recruits, he will be very successful. I will be interested to see how good the 7 foot Ukranian, Alex Lin is. I think he's eligible in 2 or 3 games. Turgeon has impressed me. If the 7 footer is good, the Terps will surprise this year.

I know the Maryland athletic program is in deep trouble with football, so I just felt like being positive about what's going right at UMCP.

[Wizardspride]

Maryland, UConn to Play in 2012 Jimmy V Classic

BRISTOL, Conn. - The Maryland women's basketball team will play Connecticut in the Jimmy V Women's Classic, on Dec. 3, 2012, ESPN and The V Foundation for Cancer Research announced Tuesday.

The 11th annual game will take place at one of UConn's two playing facilities - the XL Center in Hartford or Gampel Pavilion in Storrs and will be shown on ESPN2. The event will fall on the night before the men's Jimmy V Classic from Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The game will mark the first time these two storied programs hit the court against each other. The Huskies will be making their fifth appearance in the Jimmy V Women's Classic, while the Terrapins will appear for the second time, and first since 2007.

The Huskies will come to College Park for a game vs. the Terrapins in 2013.