It was a bit of a busy week, and I was not able to post as I would have liked to.
What I was able to do, was read some outstanding coverage of signing-day for the Maryland Football team from Matt Bracken with The Baltimore Sun, and the guys at Testudo Times.
Links to some of the reports from both are below. Kudos to both for their efforts.
Baltimore Sun / Matt Bracken
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/college/recruiting/2010/02/superlatives_for_the_terps_class_of_2010.html
Testudo Times
http://www.testudotimes.com/2010/2/3/1291535/maryland-signing-day-2010
According to Rivals.com, this was the 37th ranked class in the country.
http://maryland.rivals.com/teamrank.asp?Year=2010&Page=2&PosType=0&Sort=0
Based off of the season Maryland had on the field, this was an exceptional class.
What excited me most, is that Rivals ranked the Terps class 14th overall in terms of Defensive Ends. It is my hope that after a year of prep-school, David Mackall is ready to hit the field immediately for Maryland.
I am looking at a Defensive Line that looks like:
DE: Derek Drummond, DeOnte Arnett, Isaiah Ross
NT: AJ Francis, Masengo Kabongo
DT: Zack Kerr, Joe Vellano
Anchor: Carl Russell, Justin Anderson, David Mackall
If Mackall, and Arnett can emerge to help provide a regular pass-rush from the DE’s, as opposed to having to use LB’s, and the Secondary as extra-blitzers, that will help the team as a whole.
The starting safeties figure to be Kenny Tate, and Antwin Perez, with Eric Franklin backing them up. I would imagine that Titus Till will get a chance to jump into the 2-deep during camp.
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