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
ahead good honestly searching
I can honestly say that I think we're ahead of where I thought we'd be at this point. I thought we'd still be searching at quarterback. Joel has had a good spring.
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.
football talented
They're a big, strong, fast, talented football team.
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.
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.
ball expect expectation good great happy keeps matter player red stop throws today turning
I expect him to be a great player and nothing less. When he doesn't live up to that expectation, I'm not a happy person. I'm not happy when he throws interceptions like he did today in the red zone. That has to stop if we're going to win. It doesn't matter how good he plays, if he keeps turning the ball over we're not going to win.
ball ran
They just ran the ball down our throats.
bring great guys human protect trying vernon
The thing that is so great about Vernon is that he doesn't think another human can bring him down. I'm trying to get our other guys over there to protect him.
game running
The running game wasn't there. If we could have run the ball, we would have won.
credit fourth game took
We had the game in hand, and we have to give credit to Clemson. Really, I thought they took it took it to us in the fourth quarter, which disappoints me greatly.
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.
couple either playing plays win
We were a couple of plays from winning. I'm not into playing close. Either you win or you don't. We didn't and we could have.
beat deserved
We deserved to get beat the way we did.
behavior difficult easy felt message sent since
This wasn't very easy for me. It's one of the more difficult things I've done since I've been here. I did what I felt had to be done. The message had to be sent that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.