Former head coach Ralph Friedgen was terminated last year despite being named ACC Coach of the Year and producing gunslinger Danny O’Brien, the ACC Rookie of a year. The former Terrapin is finally speaking out on the topic of Maryland and needless to say, it’s not pleasant. Friedgen appeared on Baltimore’s WNST with host Glenn Clark early this week. During an exchange of questions, Clark asked Friedgen about watching Maryland football. Friedgen’s response, “I could care less about Maryland....
The Maryland Terrapins have seen some significant changes in the front office with the departure of former head coach Ralph Friedgen and the surprise hiring of Randy Edsall. With new top brass calling the shots, change always follows. During the spring game, Edsall boasted a new look offense and defense with numerous players playing different positions. However, with all this change, comes a reason to worry. Maryland QB Danny O’Brien, ACC Freshman of the Year, is set to take...
Maryland’s redshirt freshman QB Danny O’Brien became the first Terrapin to win the coveted ACC Rookie of the Year award. The 6’3, 215 lbs O’Brien easily won with landslide numbers taking 54 of the possible 61 votes. He is the key reason why Maryland boasts an 8-4 record and flirted for the Atlantic Division Title well into the season. The Kernersville, North Carolina, native had a stellar season passing for 2,257 yards with 21 TDs and only 6 INTs...
Carrying an impressive 3-1 record, the Maryland Terrapins will host ACC foe Duke this Saturday at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium in College Park, MD. Saturday’s game against Duke will be Maryland’s first conference game of the season. Although the season is very young, the lack of a presence of a truly dominate team in the conference makes the race for the ACC seem wide open this year. Expectations in College Park, and among Maryland alumni are high for the Terps...
Terrapin fans don’t have a lot to be optimistic about when it comes to Maryland football and all eyes will be on Ralph Friedgen in 2010. The former Maryland player took over the coaching reigns in 2001 and led the team to a spectacular 10-2 record and a top ten finish. Nine years later, Friedgen satisfied the prognosticators by going 2-10 and finishing the regular season with the team’s first ten-loss season in school history. As training camp opens,...
The prized jewel of Maryland’s 2009 recruiting class has withdrawn from the university and will not be returning to College Park, MD. Highly sought after RB Caleb Porzel brought high expectations to Maryland and garnered heavy praise from head coach Ralph Friedgen who declared: “when you see this kid, he’s going to take your breath away… I am happy he is playing for us.” Not so fast Ralph! After one year on campus Prozel has failed to stay afloat academically and missed...
The Maryland Terrapins and DT Dion Armstrong are parting ways. Armstrong, who has been having academic issues all through the spring and the summer, informed coach Ralph Friedgen of his intent to transfer. Friedgen was accepting of Armstrong’s issues and understands it’s time to move on. From a football perspective, this hurts the Terrapins’ D-line. Now, Friedgen will have to shuffle some players as Armstrong was to start and DT Ian Davidson was going to back him up. Terps fans may...
Maryland’s Ralph Friedgen was battling Kansas coach Mark Mangino for the heaviest coach alive title last season. Don’t look now but the Fridge has dropped 105 lbs since the off-season courtesy of his new diet. Friedgen weighed well over 300 lbs. at one point and says he started the diet to prevent health concern complications that come along with being overweight as he gets older. The Fridge’s diet consist of eating 5 portions of packaged meals daily, along with snacks such as fruit....
