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Sorry for the delay in this riveting series on my favorite Gary Williams games, but when you move 1800 miles into a totally new area, you need a little time to get settled.  And by getting settled I mean playing golf and getting your cable and internet hooked up.  But alas, I am settled and [...]

I know this doesn’t really have anything to do with Maryland, but this struck me as odd. Butch Davis was fired as Head Coach at UNC. A move that really isn’t that shocking based on the bad press and NCAA investigation UNC has been going through this past year. However, I did notice the quote [...]

Not that these preseason accolades mean much in the big scheme of things, I still thought it was worth mentioning that Kenny Tate has been named All ACC by the ACC Media Members (and incase you are wondering, we are not in that group!).  Tate was the lone Maryland Football player selected to the list. [...]

While my co-editors are busy driving across the country searching for wine and hot springs or hunting for snakes in the garage, I have been thinking about the start of the Maryland Football Season. We are now 39 days away from the opening match up with the Miami Hurricanes. This off season has been busy with [...]

Is it me or are we always picked 5th in the Atlantic Division to start out the ACC Season. It is like that every year until Clemson losses an inexplicable game, until FSU folds under the pressure until NC State, uh NC State’s itself into underperforming, so does this ranking discourage me? No not in [...]

Yesterday I recapped the first half of my list of most anticipated Maryland Football games in 2011.  As soon as I saw our schedule, I knew we were going to have an exciting year, but when our game against Georgia Tech came in 10th on my list, it really hit home how awesome this schedule [...]

As hot as it is today, the start of college Football isn’t nearly as far off as the weather might indicate. Heck it is already mid July, in a month things will be in full swing as teams prepare for the start of the season. As a younger man, a month seemed like a long [...]

In what is becoming an all to familiar trend, we have found out another mistake under Ralph Friedgen is going to handcuff new Coach, Randy Edsall before the season even starts. First, it was the loss of three scholarships due to the poor academic progress rating.  Now it is a loss of 2 and half [...]

This game is an extremely fond memory for me.  I was a wet behind the ear freshman at Maryland.  And as I have mentioned one more than one occasion Gary Williams and Joe Smith helped me to decide to “Take my talents to College Park”.   When we got our schedule poster that year, this was [...]