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Bruce
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Maryland Football
Bruce
I can’t wait till the new speed of Maryland’s offense is on display against the Cal Bears
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jackson 40
I am a big Chris Turner fan. He will take advantage of the versatile receivers
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Jon Blair - Terms FAN
Yeah can’t wait until the 5th of September!
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FREDDY IN BOCA
SHOULD RALPH FRIEDGEN CONTINUE COACHING MARYLAND FOOTBALL AFTER HIS CURRENT CONTRACT EXPIRES?
That’s the question. The Fridge’s current contract expires Feb. 2012. Assit. Head Coach James Franklin has been named as Ralph’s successor at that time. A.D. Debbie Yow has promised Franklin a million dollars if Franklin isn’t named Head Coach at that time and chooses to leave Maryland. Recently Ralph said he would probably like to continue coaching after his contract runs out. Debbie Yow has said Maryland doesn’t have the million dollars to pay Franklin if his agreement with the school isn’t realized in the agreed time frame. Yow said Franklin and Friedgen will be able to work things out. Yet no matter how good of a relationship Franklin and Friedgen have now there is no guarantee that relationship will be the same 2 1/2 years from now. Just ask anyone who has had a business partner, marriage or long term relationship. Robert Burns said (I’ll pause here to allow some of you to goggle Burns. It’s o.k. to learn a little about literature). “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry”. How can Yow make an agreement taht she admits she can’t back up? I think Dr. Yow is one of the 5 best A.D.’s in college sports and the job she has done at Maryland has been absolutely amazing, but HELLO! You can’t allow the school to be put in that type of situation. If you can’t follow-through on a contract where’s your credibility? If Friedgen and Franklin have a falling out and Franklin leaves who’s paying the million? Back to Fridge. Friedgen is honest, has integrity and great passion for the football team and the school. He is the type of person you would want you kid to play for. Ralph’s record with players in inherited from the previous coach was 31-8. He’s 33-25 with players he recruited. Ralph has a reputation for developng outstanding quarterbacks. The best 2 qb’s to play for Ralph since he became head coach are McBrien and Hill. Both were good college quarterbacks and Hill has been in the N.F.L. for several years now. Both neither would be considered a great quarterback. Maryland had more players drafted in by the N.F.L. this year than Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and Penn State but was only 8-5 playing in a bowl game in Boise. Nothing says bowl game in December better than Boise. I don’t want Maryland to have the kind of program that Penn State and Florida State has where half the team gets arrested every year and as a passionate fan I’m tired of people making a big thing about Maryland beating a ranked team while we’re number 38 or 40. I want the other school to be facing a Maryland team that is ranked in the top 20. I think the best thing for Maryland in the long-term good of the program is to make Franklin the Head Coach in Feb. 2012 despite my respect for the tyoe of man and coach Friedgen is. With the talent avaialble to Maryland, playing in a conference that’s on t.v. all the time, with a beautiful campus located just outside Washington D.C., with the Gossett team building it just seems the team should be better than what they’ve been. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right. What do you think?
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Mike
Was that a serious offer by Debbie Yow?
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Bruce
Freddy
Let me comment on a few things. First of all Debbie Yow never said the $1000000 is not there. What she said was, it will never come to that. James Franklin is a terrific offensive coach and recruiter. If Ralph decides not to leave then a big decision will have to be made in a few years. Whatever it is , Debbie always seem s to comeup with the right solution.But this could turn out to be a huge one. Why are you so tough on Turner? This kid has performed more then adequately for Maryland. In games where he has had little success, it has usually been a result of lack of protection. Think of the Rutgers game, the BC game , and especially the Cal game last year. Let’s judge harpo after his Senior season as well. Both McBride and Sean Hill did not blossom until their final year.
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Welcome to the Terp Talk Forums
Mike
Get ready to start talking Maryland Sports!
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Mike
This is going to be great – sorry for the emails, testing out.
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Rob
Can’t Wait
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Mike
Let’s Talk Terps!
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FREDDY IN BOCA
from the sunpapers
I have a story today about how long Ralph Friedgen might remain as head coach – and how his current thinking squares with the school’s “coach-in-waiting” agreement with offensive coordinator James Franklin.There is a bit of a discrepancy here – which is one reason I wrote the story (i.e., to try to make sense of the situation).
Fridge says he’s not trying to set a record for coaching longevity. He says he won’t be Joe Paterno. But he doesn’t seem to want to be limited to three years. He talks generally about coaching three to five more years. He says he might be tempted to stay past 2012 if the Terps go to the Orange Bowl in, say, 2011.
But Maryland has a contract with Franklin that says the university is liable to Franklin for $1 million if Friedgen remains head coach beyond Jan. 2, 2012.
So how do you reconcile these two things?
One way would be for Franklin – who has passed up opportunities in the NFL and at other colleges — to simply remain as offensive coordinator if Fridge stays on and therefore not exercise his right to claim the $1 million. Another way would be for Friedgen and Franklin to agree to amend the timetable, provided the school’s administration agrees.
Here’s a quote from Athletic Director Debbie Yow that didn’t appear in the story about the $1 million promise to Franklin:
“We have a legal obligation at this point in the document to (pay) that. If Ralph wanted to have that conversation with him, that has to be an agreement they would have that changes the document.There could always be a conversation – of course – between the two of them.,” Yow said.
A logical question is why Maryland officials inserted the January 2012 date in the “head coach option” of Franklin’s contract. They could have left the date open-ended.
My sense is that Maryland wanted to be fair to Franklin by giving him a time frame of sorts. The January 2012 date seemed to work because it was the end of Friedgen’s contract.
Franklin’s original contract ended on June 30, 2011. His new one – the one with the head coach option – ends the same day as Friedgen’s.
The clear hope of Maryland officials is that they get a smooth transition. Terps fans, I’m sure, are counting on that as well
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FREDDY IN BOCA
to bruce. as you can see from my 2nd additional post using story from sunpapers debbie yow says she doesn’t have the million to pay franklin. in regards to turner. you say he is an excellent q.b. he’s not excellent. he plays very well at times and other times he is very inconsistent. he plays better in games where md plays ranked teams. thing is md also plays unranked teams and in those games his performance fluctuates. excellent qb’s play consistently well. mcbrien played well his first yr and really well his 2nd. same with hill. they both were better early intheir careers than when turner was getting started and both improved more rapidly than turner has. turner is going into more or less his 3rd yr as starter where both hill and mcbrien transferred and had only 2 yrs to play where turner has been at md from the get go. that said no matter how good a qb you have no matter how good the receivers are and no matter how good your running backs are the offensive line is the key to success. no holes to run through and the running backs get smashed. can’t pass protect and the receivers don’t see the ball because the qb is getting sacked or hurried.
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FREDDY IN BOCA
from sunpapers;;;The $1 million payment would not be made unless Maryland were to name a successor to Friedgen other than Franklin, or Friedgen were to remain beyond the term of his contract.
“It’s just our way of acknowledging and recognizing that [Franklin] gave up something to stay at Maryland,” Yow said.
In effect, Franklin would have to agree to amend the contract and let Maryland off the hook if Friedgen were to stay for the 2012 season.
“That would have to be a conversation Ralph and James had, where James deferred the opportunity for two more years,” Yow said. “That’s what would have to happen because I don’t have a million dollars to give James. They’ll work that out in time.” She said any such discussion “is very premature.”
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JimTerp74 1:34 pm on July 8, 2009 Permalink
Hey, anyone, is there a way to follow the Terp hoopsters during the summer? They play in DC leagues, right? Are there any websites that have rosters, game results, box scores, etc? Thanks!
JimTerp74 9:11 pm on August 6, 2009 Permalink
Bruce, I heard that Jin Soo had gone to Korea to be on their national team for the FIBA Asia championships. But when I check their site http://www.asia-basket.com/South-Korea/basketball.asp?NewsID=168153 he is not listed on the team. Do you know what’s up?
Thanks!
freddy from boca 6:56 am on August 11, 2009 Permalink
Jim, one reason why you might not have found Jin is because he changed last name to Goldberg. No, I’m sorry his name is now Jin-Soo Choi.