Press Conference: Ralph Friedgen
Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen talks with the media. Maryland (6-3, 3-2 ACC) plays at Virginia (4-5, 1-4 ACC) on Saturday.
On an overall message to the team this week after a tough loss
“I told the team yesterday that it was a very tough defeat. Our kids played extremely hard and it was a physical football game. Now that it’s done we can’t do anything about it. I think we need to learn and grow from it, onto the next game. When we go down to Virginia we need to play very well to win the football game.”
Press Conference: Ralph Friedgen
Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen talks with the media. Maryland (6-3, 3-2 ACC) plays at Virginia (4-5, 1-4 ACC) on Saturday.
On an overall message to the team this week after a tough loss
“I told the team yesterday that it was a very tough defeat. Our kids played extremely hard and it was a physical football game. Now that it’s done we can’t do anything about it. I think we need to learn and grow from it, onto the next game. When we go down to Virginia we need to play very well to win the football game.” Continue reading “Press Conference: Ralph Friedgen” »
Maryland: The end of an era?
Maryland at Virginia: Nov. 13
There’s not much you can do to dress up a 2-10 season. Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen doesn’t try to.
“It’s not something that we talk about daily, but they know the score. I kind of like it like that myself. I kind of enjoy that kind of motivation,” said Friedgen, whose Terrapins don’t exactly come into 2010 with anything more in terms of expectations than you’d expect with a program spinning off its axis in recent years.
Friedgen came to his alma mater in 2001 with little in the way of expectations back then, either, and quickly raised the bar, winning the ACC title and going to the Orange Bowl in ’01 and winning a school-record 11 games in 2002. Continue reading “Maryland: The end of an era?” »
ACC football press conference quotes
Staff Report
Frank Spaziani – Boston College
Opening statement: By now, the freshman (Dave Shinskie) is not a freshman and he has played and has the experience. One thing that happened (Saturday) is that, as a team, the line is moving forward but we still have some injuries that are falling backwards. We are a team that is very fragile, but collectively, can win every game. Continue reading “ACC football press conference quotes” »
Ralph Friedgen | Maryland coach talks in advance of Tech game
Staff Report
On the Virginia Tech defense:
I’ve been very impressed with them on tape. Obviously, they’re very well coached and they have a lot of speed on defense. They have the No. 1 defense in the conference and play with great effort.
On the Virginia Tech offense:
They have a big, strong offensive line and good receivers – very similar to what we saw last week. Quarterback Tyrod Taylor is similar to Russell Wilson, although he looks to run the ball a little more than Russell did. He’s very elusive, very quick. He has a quick release and very accurate. Ryan Williams has great speed, good vision and great feet. He’s a very good football player. Continue reading “Ralph Friedgen | Maryland coach talks in advance of Tech game” »
College Football Saturday (And Thursday!)
College Football Saturday begins with a preview of the Thursday-night national-TV matchup between Virginia Tech and Maryland and continues with a look at Saturday’s UVa.-Wake Forest game in Winston-Salem. Hear from the coaches and from AFP editor Chris Graham with commentary and analysis. Length: 10:11. Continue reading “College Football Saturday (And Thursday!)” »
College Football: The turnaround at Scott
Column by Chris Graham
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Duke 31, UVa. 3. UVa. 31, Maryland 0. Up is down, cats and dogs are playin’ together, John McCain and Barack Obama are … well, they’re slinging mud. But none of the rest of it makes any sense.
“We took a little step forward here tonight,” Virginia coach Al Groh said after his team’s whitewash over a Maryland team that had just beaten Clemson in Death Valley (!).
Somehow he resisted the urge to tell us all, “I told you so,” in the face of a week of rampant speculation that his tenure in Charlottesville was fast coming to an end – with things getting to the point where columnists including yours truly had moved on from discussing whether or not Groh would be fired to talking openly about who would be at the front of the line among potential successors.
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Winners and Losers: ‘Hoos, Hokies headed in different directions
Column by Chris Graham
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HOKIES GET BREATHER AFTER TRIO OF GRITTY WINS: Frank Beamer remembers when Western Kentucky was a big game.
“We were both in the western part of Kentucky, and that was a big game back then,” said Beamer, who coached at Murray State before returning to his alma mater at Virginia Tech and had his share of tussles with Western Kentucky back in the day.
It doesn’t figure to be quite as big a day on Saturday in Blacksburg when Beamer’s Hokies take on the Hilltoppers. Tech is favored by 27 and a half points by the oddsmakers.
“Well, we are a work in progress,” Beamer said when asked earlier this week if his team might be the ACC’s best following a string of gritty wins over Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Nebraska. “I said in the preseason at the ACC media day, we have to just get a starting point and get better and hopefully we can be a factor in the end. I still feel that way, we have to improve this week and keep moving forward,” Beamer said.
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Winners and Losers: All losers this week
Posted by afp on December 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
OK, so Rex Grossman isn’t the solution. Don’t get too excited about his four TDs in Washington’s 33-30 loss at Dallas Sunday. He also had two interceptions and a sack fumble, and didn’t exactly look adept in his second run at a late-game two-minute drill.
Coach Mike Shanahan is back to square one with QBs heading into next year. (Pining the days of Jason Campbell, we are, aren’t we?)
So much for the offensive genius who was finally going to get things turned around in Redskin Park. Continue reading “Winners and Losers: All losers this week” »
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