The dictionary defines rollercoaster as a verb meaning to experience a period of prosperity, happiness, security, or the like, followed by a contrasting period of economic depression, despair, or the like.
No verb could better define what the Maryland football team is going through this season. Moments of joy and hope followed by moments of despair and grief.
The team has beaten three different teams ranked in the top-25 in the country but it has also lost to its two arguably weakest opponents (Middle Tennessee and Virginia).
With a defense that can shut out the high-powered Wake Forest offense and an offense that can put up 30 points against a good California defense, there is no excuse for this team losing to two bottom-dwellers.
No one expected the team to defeat all these top-ranked teams. It's a pleasant surprise that any Terps fan would be estatic about.
However, everyone expected us to beat Middle Tennessee and Virginia who are both teams unworthy of carrying our jockstraps.
It is this kind of up-and-down turmoil that has made my friends and I want to skip the games in favor of tailgates and bars. We never know which team will show up on a week-to-week basis; the good throttling team who can compete with anyone or the weak team who couldn't even get close enough to attempt a field goal against Virginia.
I am still a Maryland fan through and through but all of my friends and I expect a letdown this week against N.C. State and will not be surprised if the Terps lose their homecoming game.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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