Yes, I'm 63 and miss the ACC

 Terps were a solid ACC team the last time they faced SMU, who was in the SWC, in football. Terps won  7-0 in 1961 and 14-6 in 1962 to lead the series 2-0. SMU was coached by Bill Meek in 1961 and Hayden Fry in 1962. Terps were coached by Tom Nugent both seasons. The 1961 Terps beat Penn St which remains a big deal in this part of the USA.

I'm looking for MD(B10) to eke out a home win 20-19 with a solid game from Baby Tua against SMU(AAC).

earlier blog: https://busterother5.blogspot.com/2020/07/yes-im-60-and-miss-acc.html

Sept 18, 2022

15 penalties but the Terps persevered to take a 3-0 series lead over SMU. Thanks, Roman Hemby 16 carries, 151 yards, 1TD in a 34-27 win.

Georgia Tech is a mess with blowout losses to Clemson (41-10) and OL Miss (42-0) this season.

Wake Forest survived Liberty 37-36 when the Flames didn't convert a two pointer.

Cuse edged Purdue but the jury remains out on the Carriers.

Oct 15, 2022

Boeheim usually gets on my nerves but I'm with him on the Big Ten, which finished 9-9 in the 2022 Dance. The ACC finished 14-5 and sent three teams to the Elite Eight.

"At the end of the day, you play for the [NCAA] tournament," Boeheim said Friday at his team's media day. "You can say what you want about the Big Ten. They sucked in the tournament. 

Nov 25, 2022

It's good to see the Terps continue to schedule games against other Maryland 1A schools. They beat Coppin St(MEAC) yesterday, a small inner-city school in Baltimore City. Juan Dixon, one of the key members of the Terps 2001-02 title team, is HC of Coppin St.

BTW, MD hosts UCLA this season. I recall when Lefty Driesell got a little ahead of himself calling MD the UCLA of the East in the 1970s.

Dec 9, 2022

It feels weird to type: Friday, Dec. 30

Duke's Mayo Bowl: Maryland(Big10) vs. NC State(ACC)

Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Someone waking up from a nine-year coma thinks why are two ACC teams matched up in a Bowl Game?

I'll stick with my Terps who showed me something in a loss to Ohio St. Baby Tua has been solid. MD 24 NC St 20

Dec 15, 2022

UCLA kicked our butt from beginning to end last night in hoops. UCLA 87 MD 60. Hope we get it together before UCLA joins the Big 10. Cal Board of Regents got $$$ concessions and OK'd the UCLA move.

Dec 31, 2022

What a wacky world! Gary Hahn, the NC St radio announcer since 1991, was suspended for saying this while relaying the score of the Sun Bowl, "down among all the illegal aliens in El Paso, it's UCLA 14 and Pittsburgh 6.". 

BTW, Pitt(ACC) beat UCLA 37-35 in game of scoring streaks in which it also rained at times while the sun was shining brightly. Sun Bowl has been a constant must -see TV game for me since I was a kid, and is now one of the few bowl games not televised by ESPN. It's on CBS.

Now back to the NC St game. Terps 16 Wolfpack 12

Jan 29, 2023

Yep, a Terps hoops conference win over Nebraska and being respectful about RIP Billy Packer are sure signs times have changed. BP was such a Tobacco Road (UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, & NC St) homer, I'd mute the TV on regional ACC telecasts.

Feb 26, 2023

UNC gets a big win over UVA to keep its Dance chances alive. FSU upsets Miami. And it still feels weird to type Pitt may be the best team in ACC. Panthers crushed Cuse, and it sure appears Boeheim won't be able to cry his way into the Dance.

My Terps play Northwestern in a battle for second place in the Big 10. No one saw that coming during Xmas season.

Feb 27, 2023

Terps crushed NW and are two GB of Purdue in the B10. 

Louisville (2-16) upset an erratic Clemson squad to get it's second ACC win.

RIP, Terry Holland , the hoops coach at UVA. Some great battles on and off the court between Terry and and Lefty(MD). Lefty nearly got Moses Malone(Petersburg VA) ,but Moses joined the ABA. Terry got Ralph Sampson from Harrisonburg, VA.

May 10, 2023

RIP: Denny Crum. Great college coach for Louisville. He was an assistant for Wooden at UCLA.

The two Louisville national titles in 1980 and 1986 came when the Cards were in the Metro Conference. Kenny Payne, the current Cards HC played on the 1986 team. 

Sept 1, 2023

Rare for this Terps' fan to concur with UNC bosses on Tobacco Road, but I do on NO to expanding the ACC into a transcontinental conference. It won't improve anything. 

Sept 16, 2023

Terps were down 14-0 to UVA in a renewal of former ACC regional rivalry and came back to win 42-14. The matchup was usually played on the final regular season Saturday. Next year the game will be at UVA.

Dec 7, 2023

SMU, a future ACC team. barely misses being in a NY6 bowl and ends up in the Fenway Bowl playing BC. It feels weird to type that in an ACC blog.

Jan 30, 2024

I'm unsure why the ACC takes so many algorithmic hits. Right now, it appears UNC, Duke, and UVA, would make the dance. FSU, Wake Forest, and Miami(FLA) are being ignored. 

Feb 16, 2024

RIP Lefty Driesell- rarely a dull moment

Yes, I'm 60 and miss the ACC

I'm remain miffed that the Terps moved to the Big 10 in 2014. Yes, we've made a few more Dances by being a B10 member, but I miss the old Tobacco Road days when fans of the Maryland and Virginia   would complain about the Greensboro-area  control of ACC Hoops.

I recall Jim O"Brien , Len Elmore , Tom McMillen etc from the days of less televised games . How about  Coach Lefty Driesell  stating boldly that MD was the UCLA of the East?

This week I've been fascinated the ACCN show aired on ESPN and caught myself wondering why are they talking about Pitt and Syracuse.

Yes, I keep up with current Sports news  and go to BTN to catch the latest on my Terps.

Anyone recall Mick Jagger's tune "old habits die hard" ?

July 8, 2020

However, I don't miss Dean Smith's, the former UNC HC,  four corners offense.

July 14, 2020

While reading Loose Balls, a book about the ABA, I was surprised to learn that Bones Mckinney,  a former Wake Forest Head Coach and former announcer of ACC games on Raycom Sports , had a stint as HC of the Carolina Cougars of the ABA.He was okay in the booth and didn't irk Terps fans . We directed our anger at Billy Packer, who rarely had a kind word for MD and UVA. BTW, Billy son Mark is a co-anchor on the ACCN.

July 21, 2020

Mark Packer, ACCN co-host, sounded like his dad Billy yesterday when he was  praising Dean Smith's four corners offense , particularly when Phil Ford was the UNC point guard. We Terps' fans would scream at the TV, Ford is carrying the ball and taking a half dozen steps. In other words, Ford should have been whistled for traveling.

July 22, 2020

Terps had a great trio of guards, John Lucas, Brad Davis, and Mo Howard, in the 1970s, who went on to so-so NBA careers.

Aug 20, 2020

 C J Spiller,  the 2009 ACC POY for Clemson and a decent NFL player, is joining the Clemson football staff. He's from Lake Butler, FLA and will be a plus for recruiting in football-rich Florida.

sept 5, 2020

Ernie Graham, a kid from Baltimore,had a 44-point performance in a 124-110 Terps win over N.C. State in December, 1978.  EG was erratic at times in his college career  but often came through in big games and later had a brief NBA career.

sept 19, 2020

NC HHS will allow two family members per player to attend live football games up to 350 people. Fred Demarest, spokesman for NC St' athletics department. “We will be giving 250 to our player parents and providing 100 for Wake Forest.” 

Sept 20

 Those fans saw  a he!! of a game . NC St 45 WF 42. Deacons O  didn't miss Newman.

Sept 30

Last night I bumped into a guy from my old Belair-Edison neighborhood in Baltimore, and he started telling soccer stories, particularly about his one season playing for MD, and a loss to Clemson 1-0 in 1973 ACC title game.

Oct 27

Virginia at the bottom of the ACC, and Terps got crushed by Northwestern in B10 play. Tua's brother threw three picks against NW. Terps/UVA used to be the ACC  regular season final game in a border war matchup. 

Jan 3, 2021

Despite an 0-7 bowl record, I still miss the Terps being in the ACC. I watched snippets of the Kentucky win over NC St yesterday, and  the announcer's chatter about UK football records started me thinking about how Jerry Claiborne left his job as the MD HC to return "home" to UK in 1982. Also how cool it was when Bear's Bama team made a rare trip to College Park , MD in 1974 and beat his former  Asst coach Claiborne 21-16. The loss wasn't cool but the we rarely got visits from the football powerhouses.

Feb 16, 2021

M.J. Walker scored 17 points for Florida State(12-3, 8-2 ACC)  in an 81-60 rout of  Virginia(15-4, 11-2 ACC). It was the Cavs largest ACC defeat since losing  65-41 at UNC on Feb. 18, 2017. VA Tech sits in third place with an  8-3 conference record.

March 9, 2021

3/9/74: Brutal  Terps OT loss to NC St in the ACCT final that prompted the NCaa to expand the Dance from 32-48 teams since it was one ticket per conference then. 

The Wolfpack had David Thompson, Tom Burleson, Monte Towe and Phil Spence and beat UCLA for the national title.

Terps had John Lucas, Tom McMillen, Len Elmore, Mo Howard, Tom Roy, and Owen Brown.

 Lefty Driesell rejected an NIT bid, but UM Eastern Shore (MEAC) won a game in the NIT in 1974.

April 6, 2021

No surprise that UNC stayed in house and promoted Hubert Davis  to replace Roy Williams. They stayed in house when Dean Smith retired and were erratic between Smith and Williams. Bill Guthridge (1997–2000)  then Matt Doherty (2000–2003).

April 22,2021

Terps hired Danny Manning, ex Wake Forest HC, yesterday for an assistant coach position, and I kept thinking it was an intra-conference move. One day I'll accept MD is in the Big 10.

June 3 , 2021

Scheyer to replace Coach K in 2022. K got the wins .However the notion that Duke was/is "above it all" and an honorable program continues to rile me. K is a nasty piece of work who's been given a lot passes by the media. Signed an ACC Terp fan😉

Sept 14, 2021

Shaky weekend for ACC football. Jax St (1aa) beat the Noles. Miami barely survived APP St (Sunbelt).

Against the P5: Pitt beat Tenn(SEC) and UVA beat ILL(B10) but Cuse lost to Rutgers(B10) and NCST lost to Miss St (SEC)

BC  was cruising against UMass, an Independent that's headed to 1AA or no football, and gave up 28 points in the second half in a 45-28 win.

Dec 4, 2021

When the Terps hired Turgeon, a Midwesterner with a Big 12 and MVC background, in 2011 I was skeptical. MD moved to the B10 in 2014. He's been solid overall with some ups and downs in ten years so I was a bit surprised to hear that he's out as the HC, and Danny Manning is the HC for the remainder of this season. Terps are 5-3 this season. 

Dec 30, 2021

I'm 62 and was stunned when I turned on the Pinstripe Bowl and the Terps blowing out VTech(ACC). Baby Tua had a solid game, and we ran a punt back for a TD. Brent Fry, the new VT HC in 2022 faces a daunting task, and he's keeping JC Price, the interim HC, who looked like a deer in the headlights yesterday, on his staff. 

Who knows maybe S.Carolina can snap the SEC losing streak and beat UNC(ACC) today?

 BTW, Clemson(ACC) beat Iowa St last night. 

May 8, 2022

A few years ago Maryland football agreed to a two-game series with Charlotte(CUSA) with games to be played in 2022 and 2023. No matchup history of these two teams.

I started thinking about the 1977 hoops Dance when UNC(ACC) lost to Marquette in the Final, and UNCC(as Charlotte was known) lost to UNLV in the consolation game. Cornbread Maxwell was  the big name for Charlotte who represented the SunBelt.

May 31, 2022

The undefeated Terps won the 2022 national lacrosse title defeating Cornell 9-7. It's their second national title as a Big 10 member. 4 NCAA T Titles– 1973, 1975, 2017, 2022

In men's baseball MD is hosting a regional for the first time and, of course, the NCAA includes an ACC team, Wake Forest.

#2 Wake Forest (40-17-1) vs. #3 UConn (46-13)

#1 Maryland (45-12) vs. #4 LIU (37-19)

July 17, 2022

I was scanning sports stories about the Chicago area and found a recent obit on Nick Trifunovich who went on to play at NC St for coach Press Maravich, a fellow Serb. He stayed at NC St when Press left for LSU to coach his son Pete in 1966.

Trif was one of four Serbian kids born in displaced persons(WW2) camps on the East Chicago-Washington HC varsity team in 1964. He attended St. George Serbian Orthodox Church.