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By Jeff Barker | November 10, 2009
COLLEGE PARK - - Jamarr Robinson didn't see Maryland quarterback Chris Turner go down. Turner, who had just suffered a knee-ligament injury, was lying on his back on the Carter-Finley Stadium field with his hands over his face in the second quarter of Maryland's 38-31 loss to North Carolina State. Robinson, Turner's backup, had little time to process that he was about to play in the game or to contemplate what his entry meant to Maryland or to his career. "It jumped on me quick," Robinson said.
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By Jeff Barker | November 8, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen saw a rainbow at practice last week, desperately hoping it was a positive sign for a team he said has been rained on all season, both in a literal and metaphorical sense. Sure enough, the skies were bright blue over Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. But the Terps couldn't part the dark clouds of their season, losing starting quarterback Chris Turner to a second-quarter knee injury and falling, 38-31, to a North Carolina State team that hadn't won an Atlantic Coast Conference game in four previous tries.
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By Jeff Barker | October 24, 2009
COLLEGE PARK - -It has come to where Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen can't bear to watch a football team turn the ball over - his team or anybody else's. Friedgen talks these days like a man a little bit haunted. "NOOOO!" the coach says he screams when he watches a critical interception, even one on television involving another team. As his Terps (2-5, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) prepared for Duke (3-3, 1-1) on the road today, turnovers had become the bane of the coach's existence - and of his young Terrapins.
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By Jeff Barker | October 21, 2009
COLLEGE PARK -- Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen said Tuesday that he is worried senior quarterback Chris Turner misunderstood comments the coach made indicating he might play two of his younger quarterbacks this season. "I'm going to talk to Chris. I think he misconstrued some of the things I said," Friedgen said at the team's weekly media lunch. Friedgen had told reporters Sunday night that he intends to play sophomore quarterback Jamarr Robinson - and perhaps true freshman Danny O'Brien - sometime soon.
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By Jeff Barker | October 20, 2009
COLLEGE PARK - -It seems long ago that Maryland quarterback Chris Turner appeared at the Atlantic Coast Conference's preseason media conference and said of the Terrapins: "We're easily a 10-win team." It was late July, the weather was warm and muggy, and Turner and other top ACC players had mixed media interviews with a round of golf at a resort in Greensboro, N.C. "We're not here to just win eight games and go to an average bowl," the senior quarterback had said. Twelve weeks later, Turner's Terrapins are 2-5 (1-2 ACC)
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By DAVID STEELE | September 13, 2008
This could end up being just another classic Maryland football tease, you know. The program is getting good at it, almost good enough for it to be its signature. There's no sane reason to believe that a team that just lost to Middle Tennessee State is now going to beat No. 23 California. Except that this is exactly what the Terps do, and have done over and over again, since the initial three-year burst of the Ralph Friedgen Era. The Terps' faithful are in a foul mood post-Middle Tennessee, but it's really more of a lingering affliction.
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By Jeff Barker | August 28, 2008
COLLEGE PARK - It was a savage hit, even by major college football standards. Rutgers safety Joe Lefeged flung himself at Jordan Steffy, crashing into the Maryland quarterback last season with an unnerving, helmet-to-helmet crack. Steffy, who walked haltingly up the locker-room stairs and remained forgetful and occasionally disoriented for several weeks after suffering a concussion in the Sept. 29 game, was set to graduate in the spring, and his once-promising career seemed all but over.
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By JEFF BARKER | August 27, 2008
Offensive coordinator James Franklin said coaches relied on empirical data - performance charts, basically - to show how things tipped in favor of Jordan Steffy. "We just basically told [Chris Turner] the truth. We showed him all the data," Franklin said. "He sees it every day because it's posted in the locker room every day, so he kind of had an awareness of what was going on. The data documented everything we were saying." (For more, go to baltimoresun.com/terpsblog)
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By Don Markus | August 21, 2008
COLLEGE PARK - Two days after losing the starting quarterback job he held for the last eight games of the 2007 season, Chris Turner has decided to remain at Maryland as Jordan Steffy's backup. The decision was reached after Turner talked again yesterday with his parents in California and with Terps coach Ralph Friedgen. An athletic department spokesman confirmed a report on ESPN.com that Turner was staying. Neither Turner nor Friedgen was available for comment after afternoon practice.
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By Sandra McKee | August 19, 2008
COLLEGE PARK - Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen and offensive coordinator James Franklin went around and around over who should be the Terps' No. 1 quarterback, and yesterday morning, Friedgen announced that senior Jordan Steffy is the man. What it came down to was statistical performance. "I don't know if we [all] ever settled [on the choice]," Friedgen said. "We were kind of going back and forth. I was kind of listening to everybody. I gave all the coaches - even the defensive coaches - a chance to voice their opinions.