Maryland Can't Hold Fourth Quarter Lead, Falls to FSU 29-26

Once again the prevent defense prevents victory. On Florida Stes last drive of the game Maryland goes with a 3 man rush and drops everyone else deep. With no pressure on the quarterback and no one defensing the middle of the field, Florida State q.b. E.J. Manuel runs for big chunks of yards as the Noles go down the field easily for the winning touchtown. Maryland controls the clock, gets 3 turnovers and still loses. Poor coaching and poor execution particulary by the punt coverage team at the end of the game costs the Terps a much needed win.

The buyouts can’t come soon enough….

ralf ought to be fired just for not tellin Ferrara to punt the ball out of bounds that’s just basic football

Ralph coached game.

What more evidence do you need Quantum?

record been since he started playing his own recruits? Answer 35 and 37. In the last 6 years 4 have been losing and just two winning.

what would have, should have or could have. The proof is the team’s record over the last 6 years. You judge coaching by the won loss record. You can point to Maryland’s last possession when they went super conservative. You can point to the prevent defense at the end which allowed FSU to score so easily. You might look at clock management at the end of the game, but the bottom line is that it was another loss. We didn’t put up enough points to win period. We want better. We want a better recruiter. We want better teams. We can only achieve that with a change at the top.

You have hit the nail on the head. We at Maryland don’t have the support that those other programs do. That is why it made no sense for DY to give such long term contracts to Fridge and GW. We have thus been stuck with Mediocrity. We might be stuck until those contracts are up.

Agreed. This is about Ralph and his mediocre at best staff.

I was very impressed about how prepared the Terps were to play.

I agree with Ben that overall the offense was good. I didn’t understand why Franklin kept running misdirection plays The FSU defense isn’t that good but they are disciplined. I didn’t see one of those plays that worked that well. As to the OL, keep it coming guys.

The defense has to improve. It is more then the DL. I don’t understand how we can continue to play that Deege, Demetrius, Anthony, and Jamari combo. They just don’t have the speed to recover. You could really see it when FSU ran reverses back to that side. Even though Demetrius may be the most talented of the bunch, maybe Darin needs to be over there on long yardage plays.

I wonder who Ralph will start at QB next week. Jamaar is impressive but Chris has been a big part of Terp football for a few years. I think Chris should start next week if he can go. As to Jamaar, he will certainly be ahead of the other QBs next year. I think O’Brien made a real mistake by not doing everything he could to get on the field this year.
 
I have a final thought about Mickey Andrews. I know that he is an institution at FSU. He has been with them for many glorius years for them including many where they were literally the gold standard for ACC football. However, I also saw too many games in which FSU D-linemen and LBs had late hits on opposing QBs. It happened too often for me to dismiss it as over aggressiveness. It looked to me like it was the product of coaching. For that reason, I am glad he he is retiring.