Is Nick Ferrera the most valuable player on Maryland’s football team? No, but he could wind up being the most important when it comes down to it. His freshman year he was the place kicker, until Travis Baltz was injured and became the punter as well. In his freshman year he hit on 18 of [...]
All kinds of topics to discuss here quickly. First of all with West Virginia looming this week, the two schools announced an extension that will allow the Terps and Mountaineer’s to play through the 2017 season. I think for all parties involved this is a welcome development. One item to note is, West Virginia requested [...]
Hard to believe week two is already upon us, but after a short week, the Terps are going to have to be ready in short order for the Bears of Morgan State. There has been much said about the short turn around, and it appears the Maryland coaching staff was prepared for this all summer. [...]
Time is running short. While Hurricane Earl is not going to impact the game, it has impacted my travel plans. We had planned on going down to spend some time in Annapolis with my wife’s family tomorrow morning, however our flight out of Logan was canceled, and now we aren’t leaving until tomorrow afternoon. Kind [...]
With ACC Media Day going on, it is time to get moving on taking a look the Maryland Football team. I am going to start with the special teams for a couple of reasons. One, they are the unit with the most locked in players, and secondly, they are one of the smaller units, and [...]
The University of Maryland has announced Nick Ferrera and DL A.J. Francis were named to the Sporting News All ACC Freshman teams. Ferrera had a solid season as a place kicker (18 of 25), and more impressively, did a wonderful job as the backup punter filling in for the injured Travis Baltz. Francis started 10 [...]
Just a quick post here. Nick Ferrera and Demetrius Hartsfield earned weekly ACC honors this week in Maryland’s win over Clemson. Ferrera made one field goal and averaged 43 yards on 8 punts including a 61 yard effort. Hartsfield was honored as the Freshman of the week with 10 tackles, but most importantly a sack [...]
Here we are staring down a potential 1-4 start with the talented, yet not quite living up to expectations, Clemson Tigers coming into College Park Saturday. Clemson will face the Terps with a 2-2 record, and 1-1 in the ACC. Coach Dabo Swinney, in his first full season as head coach, has wins over MTSU [...]
There are lots of news items coming out of the Terps athletic department today. So not only we staring down the barrel of a 1-4 start with Clemson coming into town this week, there are some other items of concern. First lets stick with football. It appears Travis Baltz is going to miss the Clemson [...]
