The Baltimore Sun has nominated Turtle Soup for its first annual MOBBIE (Maryland's Outstanding Blogs) Awards.  The category is rather narrow (best Terps blog); but one that I think we can win.Anyone is eligible to vote once per day, starting tomorrow (Monday 9/28).  You can vote here.  You will need to scroll down the page until you find the Terps [...] Read More »

Rutgers is a bad football team and all indications thus far point to the fact that Maryland is equally putrid.  Nevertheless, one of these two squads will have the chance to right themselves tomorrow at Byrd Stadium.  Those of you looking for quality football may choose to avert your eyes.  How's that for an exciting lead-in?As ACCsports.com notes, [...] Read More »

Middle Tennessee State University came into Byrd Stadium and left with a win.  I went to Maryland when Mark Duffner was the coach and we never lost a game to a team like that. Now, we've lost to a team like that in successive seasons. First away and now at home.The program has gone from excelling to middling in less than a decade.  We went from mid [...] Read More »

Maryland squares off today against what is arguably the 4th best college football team in the state of Tennessee.  The game will be close.  The Terps have not demonstrated that they are a class of above the likes of MTSU.By my count, we have one player on the squad who has shown true quality on the field- Da'Rel Scott.  Freiden and Franklin would b [...] Read More »

According to Tobias Harris' Twitter account, Maryland will be visiting the Top 5 PF prospect at his home tomorrow.  Coaches have been blazing a trail to the New Yorker's home in recent days.  Zag's blog even quoted Tobias' father beaming after WVU coach, Bob Huggins visit.My favorite part of the article is this gem:  "That plan also included accumu [...] Read More »

Image by Getty Images via Daylife1.  The O-line is going to struggle all year.Chris Turner had no time to pass. Plain and simple.2.  The Defense is disorganized.How many times did you see Cal receivers running ahead of our CBs?  If the safeties are blitzing and we don't have the CBs to play man-to-man; then the defensive strategy needs to change.  [...] Read More »

Image by throwinrocks! via FlickrThe college football season is upon us.  There are tons of great matchups this weekend.  No less than four games this weekend feature Top 25 teams squaring off against each other.  The marquee contest pits two Top 10 teams, Alabama and Va Tech; but there are some great intersectional battles too. #11 Georgia hosts # [...] Read More »

I thought I would pass on a link to an interview with Chris Turner on ACC Sports.  Turner doesn't give a lot of interviews and he comments on the coach-in-waiting situation.In other news, the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll came out last night and it appears that there are two coaches who have faith in our Terps.  We got 2 votes.  That's 2 more votes t [...] Read More »

Heather Dinich (the former Terps beat writer for the Sun) analyzed the top college football mags in her blog post on ESPN today.  I'll give you a quick summary: no one thinks the Terps are any good.  See for yourself:1. AthlonAtlantic: 1. FSU, 2. NC State, 3. Clemson, 4. Wake Forest, 5. Boston College, 6. MarylandCoastal: 1. Virginia Tech, 2. North [...] Read More »

I don't mean the Terps can't win the game against Cal on Saturday. They might.I mean the Terps can't win in the media, and that's not a good sign for this program.First let me say I'm as frustrated as anyone in the Terps inconsistencies in the past 4 seasons. They have not earned the benefit of the doubt in any way, but the way some of the media [...] Read More »