SI just released their preseason bowl projections, and while that may be an insane thought, in some ways it's better than a preseason top 25, because it's a projection of what type of season a team will have as opposed to the relative strength of one team vs. another.  And where do our Terps check in?

Chick-fil-A: Maryland (ACC No. 2) vs. Mississippi State (SEC No. 5)

 We're the #3 team in the ACC. He has VT as champion and FSU as a BCS at-large.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/29/preseason-bowl-projections/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t12_a1

Per Edsall's teleconference today, Pete Desouza won't play this year and another unidentified player (not a starter) could be out as well.

He also said that offensive tackle Pete DeSouza, injured last year in a moped accident, would not be ready to play this year. “I probably don’t see that taking place for Pete this year,” Edsall said.

Edsall said that an unidentified player is injured and could be out for the year, pending a Monday examination. Edsall said the player is not a starter

 There are a few other tidbits, but nothing major.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/cheers-jeers/2011/08/desouza-unlikely-play-year

I know some of us have been sweating the fact that McGary's Summer visit to MD could fade after he takes his upcoming visits to UK, Mich, UNC and Duke, but according to Dave Telep, he's planning to take an official visit to College Park once those are done:

McGary visited Florida in August and Maryland in June; he plans on taking officials to both.

Per Telep, he would also like to take an official to UK (the one coming up is just an unofficial), but for those of you counting at home, that would be 6, so someone is going to get left out.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/basketball/mens/story/_/id/6899459/recruiting-updates-boost-mobile-elite-24

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Apparently they're going to try and get them reinstated in time for the MD game similar to the Cam Newton situation last year.

The University of Miami was expected to declare ineligible 12 football players who are subject to an investigation by the NCAA over the booster scandal in a bid to increase their chances of playing in Sept. 5's season opener at Maryland, the Miami Herald reported Thursday.

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The preseason coaches poll is out and the Terps didn't score any votes. Not a shocker considering the question marks due to the coaching changes, but after last years run, and with DOB back, I did think we get at least 1 vote.

Looking to our schedule:

Fla St is #5

Notre Dame is #18

WVU and Miami just missed the top 25 with the 27th and 29th highest vote total

Clemson, NCST and GT came in at 40, 44, and 49

 

VT is the only other ranked ACC team at #13

NC received enough votes for 36th (wonder how many were cast before Davis got the boot)

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/poll?poll=Coaches

Hawks currently repping Iceland in the FIBA U-20 Euro Championship, and although the team is struggling, Hawk has been one of the top all around players:

In five games playing for Iceland, Palsson has averaged 34 minutes, 23.8 points and 10 rebounds while shooting better than 41 percent from both inside and outside the 3-point arc. Out of the tournament’s 215 players, Palsson ranks third overall in points per game, fourth in rebounds, fifth in double-doubles (3) and first in 3-pointers made (3.6).

Icelandic Terps forward Hawk Palsson goes off in Sarajevo

We're losing 2.5 hours of organized activities each week for the entire season due to violations under Fridge last year that were uncovered and reported by Edsall. Especially bad since we have a new HC, OC and DC installing a new playbook. I do like Edsall's attidude. He's not going to use this as an excuse, which will be a nice change from the last few years of Fridge. We're still going to wax the Hurricanes.

There's been a lot of speculation on what went wrong in Vegas. Now that we've had a chance to reflect on what happened, I wanted to give my opinion, and if I'm right, what that means for the program and the search. 

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Committed to Villanova  http://www.therecruitscoop.com/category/news

Not that big of a deal for us, since he was pretty much a longshot, but glad to see he didn't go to G-town.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/07/16/unc.investigation.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

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