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Mike Locksley talks injuries, key upgrade and more after Maryland football’s first scrimmage
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Maryland soccer held its first scrimmage of fall camp Saturday, permitting its offense and protection to get reps in recreation conditions for the primary time forward of the upcoming season. The Terps obtained their first game-like motion from a roster that returns 15 starters from final season, probably the most of any Huge Ten program, and look to capitalize on a record-setting marketing campaign that noticed this system end 7-6 with a bowl victory.
Head coach Mike Locksley spoke to the media after Saturday’s scrimmage:
Switch kicker Chad Ryland has established himself
Maryland aimed to spice up its particular groups this offseason with the addition of former Japanese Michigan kicker Chad Ryland.
“If I had been to throw out a reputation, I might say it begins with Chad Ryland, our kicker,” Locksley mentioned. “You understand, I have never talked so much about that, however most likely among the best pickups we have had out of the switch portal. One other weapon, scoring the ball is de facto essential and he got here again from his offseason coaching and has been killing the ball. And I am actually, actually enthusiastic about having that consistency from that place. So if I needed to give any individual a bit love about, you realize, a man that basically stood out to me, it is Chad Ryland and his confidence is at all-time highs kicking the ball out of the endzone on kickoffs, he is been very correct on his discipline objectives all through camp and I actually anticipate him to have a giant 12 months for us.”
Ryland enters 2022 with a 75.7 % profession discipline aim proportion. He transformed on 84.6 % of makes an attempt in 2020 and 86.4 % of makes an attempt in 2021. He has additionally transformed 141 of 145 further level makes an attempt in his profession and averaged 59.57 yards per kickoff with 54.2 % of makes an attempt ending up as touchbacks in 2021. All of these numbers are vastly superior to these of Maryland’s current kicking recreation. Ryland appears like an enormous improve.
The Terps will look to construct and show their depth heading into the season
Regardless of their wealth of returning starters, there are questions concerning the depth behind the Terps’ beginning models this season. Working again, tight finish and linebacker are positions to give attention to there, with younger gamers needing to emerge and change into key gamers.
“You understand, we have created depth in any respect these positions so it is at all times going to be a contest and that is how we wish it to be round right here,” Locksley mentioned. “We actually consider that, you realize, you may have nice competitors and it brings out the very best in our gamers. And that is one of many issues by means of recruiting, we have been capable of create the mandatory depth that permits that competitors to occur.”
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Changing Chigoziem Okonkwo at tight finish figures to be a troublesome process, however Corey Dyches and CJ Dippre have proven the power to step in that function together with Weston Wolff behind them. At linebacker, the Terps welcome again Durrell Nchami and Fa’Naje Gotay from accidents and added a powerful freshman duo of Jaishawn Barham and Caleb Wheatland that would play roles early on.
Working again has expertise however no confirmed starter with the departure of main rusher Tayon Fleet-Davis, however the Terps have a powerful core of younger working backs figuring to make an impression. Colby McDonald will battle with redshirt freshman Roman Hemby for the beginning working again place with redshirt freshman Antwain Littleton II serving as a change-of-pace again and upperclassman Challen Faamatau figuring to get probabilities as nicely. Freshman Ramon Brown can have probabilities to see the sector, however may very well be restricted to 4 video games to protect a redshirt this fall.
Maryland stays comparatively injury-free after 10 days of apply
Accidents are part of soccer and any time gamers are in recreation conditions, there is a threat of somebody happening. So preseason scrimmages are at all times regarding for faculty soccer coaches, hoping to enter the upcoming season with out shedding any gamers. Mike Locksley admitted that the crew’s return to Maryland Stadium on Saturday for the crew/s scrimmage did trigger some nicks and bruises, however the crew stays wholesome after the primary of three scrimmages.
“As of proper now there weren’t any [injured players] that, you realize, had been out and could not return, Locksley mentioned. “ I imply we have had nicks and bruises. [I] haven’t met with our coach but. We’ll simply do this right here as we simply sort of completed up and I will know a bit bit extra after the gamers verify in there now that the scrimmage has ended.”
Broad receiver Dontay Demus Jr., who’s getting back from a knee damage suffered on October 1 final season, did play within the scrimmage in a restricted vogue and made some performs, in response to Locksley.
“Like I mentioned, having him again is a plus from Maryland due to the management he brings in due to the kind of participant he’s,” Locksley mentioned. “And so it was good to see him out in ‘The Shell’ working, catching, blocking. And we’ll proceed to sort of deliver him again the proper method, which is limiting sort of his load. However in the present day he was capable of get some work and was actually happy with what I noticed.”
Maryland soccer will proceed its fall camp subsequent week and maintain two extra scrimmages forward of its September 3 opener in opposition to Buffalo.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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