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I always get excited when I hear one of our recruits is graduating early to get a head start on school and most importantly for us fans, football practice, conditioning, and weight training.  Will Darin Drakeford make it on to the field this year?  I wouldn’t count on it, but there will be spots opening [...]

Hopefully Caleb Porzel will be the next running back of note in College Park.  Under Friedgen, the Terps have had a nice stable of capable backs, and Porzel is a local kid who should continue the trend.  Caleb comes to Maryland as highly regarded back and for good reason.  He was the Crab Bowl MVP [...]

Now don’t let the title fool you.  Avery Murray is new to the Football team, but he isn’t new to the campus.  He graduated from high school early so that he could enroll at Maryland in January of 2009.  So he has a whole semester under his belt.  I wonder if that gets him out [...]

I wasn’t lying about the 2008 class being OL heavy.  Next in our Meet the Newbies is another Offensive Lineman, Bennett Fulper.  Bennett comes to Maryland via Gretna, Virginia.  Now I pride myself in knowing my geography, but I have to admit I have never heard of Gretna, VA.  So I broke out my US [...]

I’m not going to break any news here by saying that Maryland has a strong history of producing Linebackers.  I know if I were a lineback (HA!), I would consider Maryland.  I think Isaiah Ross agrees with me.  We’ve put plenty of LB’s into the “Lig”.  Eric Barton, Jon Condo, EJ Henderson, David Holloway, D’Qwell [...]