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I’ll just start by saying that I’m happy the Terps and Blue Devils didn’t decide to play on Thursday Night.  It is brutal out there.  But whatever price we have to pay tonight, will be worth the payout come Saturday.  First though let’s look at this game and what it means.  For Maryland this is [...]

Its time for our Terps to take on the four letter word of the ACC.  Duke is coming to College Park for a football game.  Doesn’t exactly raise the blood pressure the way Coach K and his coaching staff full of players we all loved to hate.  However it is still Duke.  It is still [...]

If this was basketball season, and it was Maryland vs Duke week, there would be a lot more hype.  Instead it is Maryland vs Duke, football week.  There will be some Duke specific information coming forward prior to the game, but here are some interesting facts I came across courtesy of UMTerps.com. If Maryland wins [...]

At Saturday’s FIU game there was a Viking from the Capital One “What’s in your wallet?” commercial.  There were also a few students, but not that many more students than Vikings.  As happy as I am with the 3-1 Maryland start, there was something glaring about this Saturday’s game.  That glare was the sun reflecting [...]

If you only win two games the previous season, any win is a great win.  On paper Saturday’s win over Florida International was not a game in which you begin to think, I should clear my schedule for a possible bowl trip in December.  However, last season, games like this would wind up slipping away [...]

It may not mean as much to the rest of you all, but this weekend will be a homecoming of sorts for me, as it will be my first tailgate back in College Park.  I can’t wait (and thanks to the crappy kickoff time I really don’t have to).  Anyway, when I look at the [...]

The University of Maryland and University of Texas have come to an agreement for a home and home football series according to Jeff Barker with the Baltimore Sun.  The Terps will visit Austin on September 2, 2017, and the Longhorns will come to College Park September 1, 2018.  Whether these games are played in their [...]

The news I think we were all afraid to here was released today.  Starting left tackle Justin Gilbert is out for the season.  A torn ACL is the culprit.  The thin and inexperienced offensive line will truly be tested.  The FIU depth chart has  R.J Dill moving to left tackle and redshirt freshman Pete DeSouza [...]

I haven’t had a chance to vent after traveling back to Boston yesterday, so I felt the need to do this.  I don’t usually like to bash the coaches, but at half time of the West  Virginia game, I was ready to move on to a new coaching staff.  All of them.  Let us first [...]

To the common fan, there isn’t too much to get excited about FIU.  I know I have been guilty of thinking ahead to Duke and dreaming of a 4-1 start, yet if there is any program who should be leery of this type of game, it’s us.  Northern Illinois (Turner the Burner), Middle Tennessee State [...]