Have I mentioned turnovers?
With Maryland leading 9-6, quarterback Chris Turner’s pass was tipped and landed in the hands of Virginia defensive end Nate Collins.
Collins returned it 32 yards for a touchdown with 1:43 left in the third quarter.
The Maryland turnovers are really what's keeping Virginia in the game.
The question is, can the Terps overcome themselves and find a way to win?
By the way, Virginia quarterback Jameel Sewell was injured on a running play and was helped off the field. Junior Marc Verica entered and missed his first two passes.
Virginia 13, Maryland 9, fourth quarter






Comments
I am so frustrated and irrritated with this offense. It seems to me that 3 games this year have been lost because the offense simply doesn't avoid screwing up enough for the terps defensive effort not to go to waiste. I attented the mtsu game and if I remember correctly the offense turned the ball over like 4 times to mtsu deep in terps territory. which of course is why maryland lost. In the rutgers game the terps gave rutgers 2 touchdowns without rutgers offense ever taking the field. And in this game virginia couldn't score an offensive touchdown on its own...so what does the terps offense do? They give Virginia 7 points, which of course is just enough to lose the game. This is becoming a theme for the season it seems. What can we do to lose this week to a team that needs some help from us to beat us? The first two times it happened I could deal with it, but the third time it is more than I can stand. I want to throw up in a bucket.
Posted by: phillip | October 17, 2009 7:39 PM
Enough is enough! Remember "enough of the Duff". A change has to be made and now at 2-5, all UM can do is play out the string. Bottom line, they are terrible to watch. Terrible in person (Cal Game), terrible on computer and now terrible on TV. It has been a long time since the program looked this poor. Counting down the days until Maui!!!!!
Posted by: renoterp | October 17, 2009 7:49 PM
Anyone objective would say the whole football program is a mess. They will easily post their 4th losing season in the last 6 yrs. Best case, their record will be 5-7 and could be worse.
They owe Freidgen a couple more years. They committed $1M to a coach who has never been a head coach and whose offense hardly has been impressive.
They got a lot of issues to resolve. With a poor economy this is a bad time to deal with such a mess.
I don't see those suites selling out anytime soon.
Posted by: Rich | October 17, 2009 7:50 PM
well if this keeps up you can forget about espnu and espn360 slightly delayed broadcast to watch games and they're certainly not going to be on a real station, it'll just be etch a sketch drawings on the computer every 5 minutes.
Posted by: fkterp | October 17, 2009 8:04 PM
Maybe those suites can be donated to charity. MD can host the charity bowl every year.
Its a kind school to believe in Ralph who had a couple of surprise moments. Good surprises-his first year, and bad ones-his inability to develop a QB. Steffy couldn't play as a senior and neither can Turner.
But its a kind school, Ralph's diet is more important than wins. talking about the years before Ralph's one time in the orange bowl is more important than this pile of cow patties offered up every saturday.
Glad my alma mater is kind.
College Park charity bowl Maryland vs U of Cowfield state. MD the underdog...
Posted by: Job | October 17, 2009 8:29 PM
I am so sick of Maryland fans wanting to get rid of Fridge, does anyone remember the years before he was here? This team had one bowl season between '87 - '00. I remember watching Vanderlinden teams almost get to bowls and thinking how great it would be if they made it. Now we are complaining because we don't make a bowl game every year, give me a break, this hasn't been a football school for a very long time. We are lucky to have Fridge, only two teams in the acc have been better than us during the last 9 years, VT & FSU. Stop complaining and get off his back and support the program.
Posted by: Eric | October 17, 2009 8:56 PM