Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Harry Friedgenis an American football coach. He was most recently the special assistant coach for Rutgers after serving as the offensive coordinator in the 2014 season. He was the head coach at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2000 to 2010. After the 2010 regular season, it was announced that Friedgen would not be returning for the 2011 season, ending his ten-year run as head coach. Affectionately known as "The Fridge", Friedgen was previously an offensive coordinator at...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 April 1947
easier
Right now, it will probably be easier for Joel to come in than to start.
beneficial gave hopefully time worried
I'm a little worried about our timing. It's not where it was before we went into it. But I think it gave us a little more time to prepare; they do some things that are pretty difficult. Hopefully that time will be beneficial to us.
areas bring couple days improve rest spend team tried trying
I have a young team that I'm trying to bring along, not only for this game, but for the rest of the season. We tried to spend a couple of those days on areas we thought we could improve on.
kids obviously schools success tougher
Obviously I would like to have more kids from the state. It's getting tougher because of the success we've had - there are more schools in here recruiting.
accepted press shut virginia
I told them that Virginia is going to press us, they play a lot of man-to-man, and if they shut you down, they'll shut everything else down. They accepted the challenge.
days life
It wasn't one of the better days in my life.
days hurt
Do I have to? You really know how to hurt a guy, don't you? It wasn't one of the better days of my life.
football talented
They're a big, strong, fast, talented football team.
bit coaching good luck
A lot of it is good coaching and fundamentals. A little bit of it is luck.
business close coach days either friends-or-friendship fun include relationship respect
I don't think I have a lot of close friends in life, but I include coach Beamer as one of them. That relationship won't change. Business is business. I think we have enough respect for each other . . . we've all been through days like that. It's not fun for either one of us.
hard hard-work kicks line struggled weight work
He struggled to make kicks from the 15-yard line at first. Through a lot of hard work in the weight room, he's really improved.
anxious hurt mental missing physical practice spring
We'll just have to see how much missing spring practice has hurt him. I think we've got to be careful. I'm anxious to see where he's at from a mental and physical standpoint.
added both coming immediate maturity physically run tremendous year
With an added year of maturity, both physically and mentally, I would think Melvin would make an immediate impact. He can really run for a big guy, has tremendous acceleration coming off the edge.
black came football hanging saw warming win
When they came in from warming up and they saw the black jerseys hanging in their lockers, they went nuts. But it's not the jerseys that win football games.