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The Maryland Baseball Team named Vanderbilt Assistant Erik Bakich as it’s replacement for Terry Rupp today.  What is impressive (considering the mediocre records) is this is only the Terps sixth head coach in 116 years.  What does Bakich bring to the table?  It appears he has done very well recruiting for Vanderbilt over the last seven years.  While there he [...]

The theme of the 2009 Singing Day Celebration was the focus on OL’s, but Ralph Friedgen also got a lot of depth at the defensive line position.  I don’t think  you can ever have to many DL’s, injuries always seem to be creeping up, and then there’s academic eligibility, people dropping out of school, and [...]

Maryland has always been decent at the Running Back spot.  In fact that is a part of our program that I feel has been vastly under-rated in the Ralph Friedgen Era.  DJ Adams is coming to Maryland with the hopes of keeping that “secret” tradition alive.  I think he’ll fit right in.  Now our Offensive [...]

Continuing in our series of the incoming freshman class for Maryland Football we are up to Silver Spring resident, and Dematha graduate Pete deSouza.  Pete is a 6’7″  320 lb offensive lineman.   While he is only ranked the #60thoverall OL in the country, and 3 star prospect on scout.com, we all know that any team can [...]

Like Bob said, we really need to get ramped up on these things to get to them all by the start of the Terps summer practices.  So with out further adieu (I once pronounced it add-E-O while reading Shakespeare out loud in a High School English class), here is the second QB in the 2009 [...]

When we were up at Rutgers two years ago, watching one of my all time favorite road wins (that doesn’t involve the words “NC” and “State”) we saw the emergence of Chris Turner.  Right then and there I looked over to my friend, and fellow TD contributor, Chris and said “It is nice to know that we [...]

Well with Greivis safely back in the fold, and the Lance Stephenson quest, apparently over (apparently being the key word) it is time to get back into examining the incoming freshmen class for football.  It is my goal to touch on all recruits in the coming weeks, which means if I want to finish this up, [...]

Jeff Barker is reporting that Maryland is no longer interested in Lance Stephenson.  My theory when I heard this news was Lance was a backup plan for Greivis Vasquez, but according to Barker it appears Gary Williams and the Terps Basketball Staff stopped recruiting Born Ready a few weeks ago.  What does this mean for the [...]

Now that we officially know Terp guard Greivis Vasquez will be back patrolling the Maryland back court, we can take a look at what exactly it means for us Terps fans.  First of all, just so you don’t forget, Greivis led the Terps in scoring (17.5 ppg), rebounding (5.4), assists (5.0), minutes (34.6), and FT% [...]

The news we have all been hoping for, expecting even, came to fruition today as Greivis Vasquez is removing his name from the NBA draft so he can return to the Maryland Basketball team for his senior season.  Andy Katz is reporting this on ESPN, along with several local news outlets.  I will break down [...]