Maryland All-Time Football Team
Episode 1 – QBs and RBs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4kk69RmV8
Episode 2 – WRs and TEs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31eRZN0sBGY
Episode 3 – OL and DL – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSccKeyGNHw
Episode 4 – LBs and DBs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owfy3RQX8-A
Episode 5 – Special Teams and Coaches –
Football by Friedgen – https://www.youtube.com/@FootballbyFriedgen
Shawne Merriman Coat Drive details on his Instagram page – https://www.instagram.com/shawnemerriman/?img_index=1
[Music] [Music] episode number four we’re getting into the meat of the defense the linebackers and defensive backs again with Coach Ralph regen how you doing coach doing great Larry how about yourself I’m doing great it’s a pleasure to have you pleasure to be doing this whole series that we’re doing can’t believe we’re on number four out of five now almost there get to see some really great uh players in Maryland history and we might as well jump right into it linebackers and defensive backs first team linebackers EJ Henderson duquel Jackson Eric Wilson and they’re alphabetical order but EJ should probably probably be listed first anyway look at this list I I mean it’s up there with Randy White for me coach 1999 to 2002 second alltime in tackles tied for aan sacks first team All American twice he won the B Eric award he won the buckus award ACC first team twice he the ACC Player of the Year ACC defensive player of the year college Hall of Fame 2002 Peach MVP and number 40 in the draft one of the best ever on in Maryland history correct coach had a great leader for us too he just was a sensational player and I really was very privileged to have the uh opportunity to coach and be and be with him because he he was just a great great player and actually the more video I watch of him now I I probably even appreciate him more than I did when he was playing for us because uh you know I tell you a funny story okay okay I first got to Marland we had spring practice and um first day in pads I you know I have we had a go line scrimmage and I was trying to emphasize winning was was going to be important so I always made a little competition the the winners of the goal line scrimmage they would go in and the losers would run gassers and the the offense won the first day and so I was I took the defense and that’s the other coaches go in it was a beautiful spring day and we started running gassers and gassers are you you line up on the the sidelines and you run across the field up back up back that’s one gaster I think we’re going to run three gaster well we start running these gaster and about five guys are not running they’re just kind of jogging and I meant this to be a full out Sprint you know so I said look guys you know I I just love to be out here at practicing it’s a Saturday afternoon I mean I got no place to go this afternoon so if we don’t start running we’re going to keep running these till we start running full speed so they they they start running again same thing about five guys are just jogging I said I think you think I’m kidding no you know we’re gonna stay out here till you start running well at that EJ went up and the Five Guys that weren’t running I don’t know what he said to them but he whispered in their ear and they were running after that so I said well I think we found my leader and uhy Captain yeah and he was a very softspoken but he was very very well respected and and just a very physical guy who came to play every single week I mean I don’t think he you know I was watching the the peach bow because I never got to watch it before uh I took our staff after the Peach Bowl to the the min Republic and it’s about four or five years ago I I was at the Lakehouse and it came up on YouTube and I started watching the game and EJ was just unbelievable we had two defensive tackles Randy Randy Starks got hurt the second play of the game and we had a you know we we had a walk on uh ge uh Duffy with our kid playing and I just told him to grab those guards and don’t let him on EJ well he he played pretty well Justin Duffy did and then EJ just was all over the field I think he won the MVP that game and I so I I said I just got to call EJ up and I finally called finally got a hold of him he’s out in Minnesota and he uh he said you know coach I think that was my best game I said it was unbelievable you you played just a great great football game and U so I yeah he’s he’s you know this is this is not an easy decision to make here on on the linebackers because we have we’ve had some really great linebackers in Maryland and really some great defenses too so the fact that EJ sits on top that says what a a great player he is yeah and he he deserves it he yes he was the the MVP of that Peach Bowl and you you watched it four or five years ago the rest of us watched it in action and absolutely loved EJ he was the I never saw Randy White I was I I wasn’t old enough for that but I did see EJ and in my opinion at least in person that I’ve seen is the best player I’ve seen in Maryland history yeah temperament wise they’re very similar yeah number two on the list the guy who took over for EJ and what a thankless job that is when you take over for maybe the best player in Maryland history but he did a really good job to quell Jackson 2002 to 2005 he was a two-time first first team ACC player and a second team ACC player he made all ACC three times he was a second team All-American he was ACC defensive player the year one year he’s third alltime in tackles in Maryland history and he was 34th in the draft you know he he was a really good player too we played him as a will linebacker U his first year as a freshman and E and Leon Joe was the starter but we knew once EJ left he was going to Mike linebacker and uh Dell just he played really really good and you know I was just fortunate to have some really good players and I think Mike locky recruited dequel and and I don’t know who recruited EJ because EJ is from um where how ripon’s from Mar abdine Maryland yeah but really the quell Jackson really played well for us and had did a nice job in the NFL also quell great player third player on the first team Eric Wilson from 1981 to 84 he was a two time first team all ACC player he was a second team All-American and he is first alltime at tackle so we got one two and three on this first team here and it’s not just the tackles it’s all the other WS too he wasn’t a drafted till 171 for some reason but clearly a great player as well very physical linebacker could run who would really hit you but he also was a great leader for us and and really a great person and it still comes back to Maryland and um you know he he was very very well respected on the team very much deserving a first team and he was part of those great ACC teams that that won the uh the backto back back uh uh ACC championships with you and Coach Bobby Ross all right let’s go to the second team here the second team we’ve got and we we made a decision here you see there’s we’re doing a 43 here but we couldn’t really figure out what to do with sea marman is he a lineman is he a linebacker we decided it’s our list we can do what we want we put four linebackers on our second team he’s one of them we got Chuck Fett Sean marman Kevin Walker and Alex wojack and since I brought him up I’ll just start with him he was we talked about in the previous episode about uh Vernon Davis being a physical specimen sha marman too this guy this guy could could just destroy people 2002 to 2004 he played he was first team ACC was the number 12 pick in the a uh in the uh NFL draft and he’s third all time in sacks um great player coach yeah Sean Sean played the Leo linebacker for us which in Gary blackney scheme was a hybrid outside linebacker uh defensive end and Sean always wanted to play Mike he used to come in my office and say you know coach they’re running away from me I said that’s a good thing I said you can go you can catch him but I said Sean you know you’re G to be so valuable in the NFL draft because you can that you can be a three four linebacker or a 4-3 linebacker and I said you can drop and you can coverage and you can rush the passer I said so you really and I don’t think he believed me until he got a high draft pick and then he said you were telling me the truth I said yeah I said you were playing a very tough position and doing a heck of a job at it so the fact that I think he could have played inside also um you know that’s why I said let’s not put him as a defensive end let’s list him with the linebackers and you know just as he was able to make a three four linebacker or a 4-3 now we we he we’re gonna play a 3-4 with him right now right whatever it takes to get him on the field right coach when you got somebody exactly right but he he was a very very good football player for us and you know he’s he’s also you know he’s really done a lot for the community has this coat coat uh the coat drive yeah coat drive that he does every year when I when he first approached me about that I thought he needed a coat for the winter and then he’s told me he did this in he did this in high school and it’s turned into a pretty big thing is he still doing it in Maryland as far as I know you know we had him on the show I think it was three years ago we had when Maryland opened the season against West Virginia we did a live show on campus at the tailgate he came up and he was talking about it then so at least as of as of then I’m not really sure uh but well you know what I’ll research that I’ll find out and I’ll put it in the in the description for this episode because I know when we were there he was I think he was getting a couple of thousand codes for to give yeah to people for the winter which was a very very honorable thing to do know it took a lot of time and effort on his part yeah you know he had a tattoo on his arm lights out that’s what he became famous for yeah putting people lights out yep you know so yeah he’s a colorful guy you know and a really good football player great football player Chuck Fett another one of the linebackers from those ACC championship teams in the 80s he played 83 to 86 he was a two-time first team all ACC tied for third and tackles 279th in the NFL draft coach Chuck’s an interesting guy now you know Chuck went and played pro pro baseball first and I don’t know if he couldn’t hit the curve or what but uh he came as an older guy to back to to Maryland as a freshman and I think he had two Corvettes he drove in you know but um we were playing in the sunbowl and they had a we had a a thing to do we had a thing with Tennessee and they were going to have a talent show and Chuck got up and did an imitation of Chuck Barry you know how he does that that walk and he and he did it to Johnny Be Good well we didn’t know this but they had Johnny Jones was their running back and Tennessee was going nuts because they were playing his theme song and Chuck was doing Chuck Barry but uh chuck chuck could plays linebacker now he he was a very Wild guy but he was a very good football player and we were very fortunate he decided to come play football and not play pro baseball yeah Kevin Walker 84 to 87 man you had some linebackers back then Coach First Team all ACC uh he was 84 to 87 First Team all ACC was 11th alltime in tackles he was 56 57th in the NFL draft very good athlete could really run you know played really well for us you know his big claim to fame is U um I’m having a senior moment again he tackled the the big running back Bo Jackson okay and hurt he got uh dislocated hip I believe and is that the one in the NFL that put him out that’s the one in the NFL oh okay Kevin Walker was the guy that tackled him I remember oh you know but he uh you know I I when uh yeah he he was he was really a good football player and last on our second team is Alex wojack 2008 this one was a surprise to me 2008 2010 I remember him being a good player I didn’t remember that he was two time uh L ACC first team and uh ACC second team three times on the LC team and he’s eighth all time in tackles in Maryland history Alex loved to play football you know had a bad knee and I was trying to help him and so I I would take him out of practice at times just to rest his knee up and he would get mad at me for not being able to practice I never had a lot of guys come mad at me for let not letting them practice but Alex came to play every day and you know I got a call when I was coaching at ruter from the um New Jersey State Police and they were asking me about could I give a recommendation to Alex willjack as a new Jersey state trooper and I said well you’re gonna have to cut his hair he said that won’t be problem because Alex like to have those long lcks but I said you wouldn’t find a better state trooper than this guy and uh I think he’s still a state state trooper for New Jersey so good football player tough kid but love to play football good state trooper good football player now we will go on to our third team linebackers we’ll start with Brad Carr Eric Barton and Harry Walters we start start with Brad Carr he played under coach Clayborn from 74 to 75 he was an all ACC first team player he’s eighth all time in tackles he was the number 327 pick in the NFL draft I don’t know a lot about Brad because he he came to Maryland after I left but he uh but I knew about him talking to the coaches there what a really good player he was and I remember watching him I went to a couple of their bowl games and he played really well so he was a really good football player also very physical kid and another player as you’ve mentioned before the ’90s might be your dark ages for Maryland But Eric Barton who played from 95 to 98 one of the best defenders in in all of the 90s for the turps he was all ACC first team players fifth alltime in tackles he was taken 146 in the NFL draft and he played for the Jets I believe and did a pretty good job and uh yeah he’s every time you play in the NFL as a linebacker you’re a pretty good player pretty good player Harry wal is our last linebacker on the third team he played from 73 to 74 he maybe overlapped with you a little bit he was an ACC first team player number 303 pick if I believe if I if I remember this correctly Harry walers transferred from I think William and Mary okay and um I think he came to us uh I believe coach Ross helped him get to Maryland if I’m right on this but I remember he was very very athletic could really run and you know tackle to tackle sideline to sideline he was that type of player that could make plays and a first team L player now let’s go to our underrated linebacker that is Leon Joe he played from 2000 to 2003 what a group of linebackers you had with EJ with Shawn maryman with dequel Jackson with Leon Joe and someone we’re going to get on the next page Aaron Henderson that is a group of linebackers in early 2000s coach he’s underrated because he didn’t get the accolades those other guys did but he was a great player he was 112 picking NFL draft which is somewhere in the fourth round but a great player for the turps and I’ll tell a story before you get there the orange bow game I just remember in the stadium the the announcer kept calling him Joe Leon and we it became a big joke on the message board everybody said call him Joe Leon because he does have two first names right but he kept calling him Joe Leon and we just turned it into a big joke about how much we love Joe Leon you know because the now to get messing up but a great player and underrated player when he’s compared to all these other superstars at the same time well leam not only was he very strong I know he benched like 450 but he could run four5 or better and with he and EJ and Gary black used to run a lot of these cross dogs inside you know they got more sacks you know just U they just complimented each other so well and he to me Leon should have got a lot more recognition and I’m surprised he didn’t play longer in the NFL because I really felt he was one of the better linebackers that i’ had been associated with and and you know kind of an introverted guy like U like EJ didn’t talk a whole lot at least to me but he he let his playing do his talking for him and uh really really good football player we’ll now go to the honorable mention linebackers we have eight of them here Kevin Benson who played from 72 to 75 coach yeah he uh he came in you know right right I I was leaving but uh he was a mik linebacker big strong physical guy really put together well played really well tackle tackle would really hit you and he did make an all conference first team by the way so that’s why he’s here Jermaine Carter Jr 2014 to 2017 he didn’t make a first team but he was honorable mention three times and I thought he was this close three times I thought it was worth bringing him up here as an honorable mention one of the great linebackers of the teams you know I had a chance to talk to him on the phone he called me just before the draft and you know and he he I think he got drafted by Carolina and played very well from I don’t I think he’s still playing but I don’t know where right now but uh uh I watched him you know he played very well for Maryland very very athletic linebacker and he cover coverage and you know I he did he did a great job for Maryland you know after I left another one of those early 2000 linebackers no wonder you got chome Cox in the wrong spot here you got him as a linebacker he’s a he’s a secondary guy I apologize for that well we’ll talk about him when we get to the secondary then right let’s forget him for right now we’ll go to Aaron Henderson one of those 2,000 linebackers he played 2006 2007 yes he was EJ’s younger brother but also he was a great player for the turps he was a first team All Conference player and a second Team all conference player you know ER Aaron was a quarterback in high school and um you know we ended up moving him to linebacker because he was such a good athlete and played very well for us he came out as a junior and didn’t get drafted and then end up making the team end up playing in Minnesota with EJ which was really neat the two brothers were playing together and uh but you know did a great job for us and you know I’m just fortunate enough to be able to coach those guys Moise Fu 2006 to 2008 again during your run this list of line backers is pretty incredible well Moses Moses transferred in from one of the junior colleges in Maryland so he he paid his own way to come to Maryland and um I used to watch all the film The Practice film and I was watching him against you know our defense I mean our our offense because he was on the scout team and he was all over the place and I called him in I told him I said look you know you do that in Spring practice you’ll be on scholarship for next year and he did and he ended up playing in the NFL also so you know I think I had six or seven Walk-Ons end up playing in the NFL and most that’s pretty great it’s always great when you see a walk- on they show the videos sometimes when they make the announcement and they they say hey you’ve got your scholarship and the whole team goes crazy it’s such a cool thing you know the funny thing is at Georgia Tech we used to get 10 Walk-Ons that we could help get in school when I came to Maryland they weren’t having any guys that they could get in is walk on so I said you know I can’t take this job unless I get at least five if you get five good kids a year that stay with you you know they’ll end up getting a scholarship if they’re if they’re good but that that gives you that gives you 20 more bodies at the end of four years right so so I I look really long and hard for guys that that uh you know maybe just you saw a lot of potential in them and I just wanted to find out how how motivated they were how how much did they want to be a college football player and I took my chances on those guys and a lot of times have paid off Eric aogu 1994 1997 coach a great linebacker from the 90s you’re GNA have to talk about him I don’t know him at all okay I was in was in the NFL I know I know it’s it’s the it’s the Dark Ages right but uh he was a second team allconference player and he’s second in Maryland history for Sachs as a linebacker only behind Shawn marman so great linebacker obviously right um and he was drafted 163rd so guy Roberts 1969 to 1971 so he was there doing your Heyday yeah I played with guy guy was a he’s we used to call link called him missing link I think he jumped out of the third floor of alate and lived so uh he was a very unusual guy missing good really good football player yeah and that’s reminiscent of the wire and a character named Omar who did that too so I don’t know if you watched that coach last oh I watched it yes yes Omar so yeah uh Trey Watson is is our last guy on the honorable mention list he only played one year for the turs he was a transfer as well but he was a conference team first team All Conference player in that one year so so I included him here I don’t know if you know much about him Coach no I don’t yeah okay all right let’s go on to our defensive backs our first team for the defensive backs Al Covington keah Covington Dominique Foxworth and Bob Smith we’ll start with well well let’s let’s do them together Al the brothers Al Covington and ke cumington both of them were two time all ACC first team players ke Covington is tied for fifth all time in interceptions as well in the history Al was 82 to 86 Kea 84 to 86 coach you you were they were there during the Bobby Ross days with you Kea was as a cornerback and Al was a safety Keo was shorter but very physical and very fast and Al was a was a safety but he probably about 6 foot 61 but both of them were very very aggressive football players and uh you know really came up big and then if you put frell Edmonds they all played on the same high school team in Virginia so we got three guys that are on our list that all came from that same high school which is kind of interesting at the same time too at the same time yeah there may be some examples of that of like some of the Maryland powerhouses but for a school in Virginia that’s that’s pretty pretty unique yeah to get them out of out of Virginia really yeah yeah uh the third guy on the on our first team for defensive backs Dominique Foxworth 2001 to 2004 he was a first team all ACC and a two-time second Team all ACC player so three total uh all ACC uh Awards he’s tied for seventh all time in interceptions he was a number 97 pick in the NFL draft Dominique when I got the job at Maryland he had committed to coach vandon and then kind of decommitted and we we had to go in and um re-recruit him and he comes from a wonderful family just Mom and Dad just they’re um I believe their their life motivators you know they they give talks and whatnot and Dominique is such a Class Act um you know we were trying to red shirt him we knew he was going to be good but then Tony clan um got hurt and couldn’t play and we had a we had to make a decision and we started playing them against Clemson and Clemson we if we beat Clemson in 2001 we at least assure ourselves of a tie for uh for the conference Championship and Clemson had a really good wide receiver I can forget his name right now but they must have tried to beat Dominique six seven times in that game and he covered him like a glove and from the first from the from the get-go he was really a good player for us and just came out as a junior as you know after his junior year came out his senior year and was playing for the Denver Broncos and if we had reter him he might have been playing for us instead of the Denver Broncos but he played really well for us from from being a Freshman all the way through his junior year and we he’s doing very well very well educated kid very very intellig just really great home you know just just love coaching him he was a great kid and the fourth guy I gotta be honest with you coach I didn’t really know this guy but maybe he’s the best defensive back in Mar history certainly the most decorated he was a three time all ACC first team player and he’s number one all time in interceptions in Maryland history however he’s only the 416th pick in the NFL draft they don’t even go that long anymore but Bob Smith 1972 to 74 Bob was a a big kid he’s like 61 or so K of kind of was a ball Hawk you know I don’t remember him that he had you know really great speed he had good speed but he had great anticipation and you know Tony Jackson was very similar to that from you know the way he would get interceptions too he just had a good good job of breaking on the ball and having a sense that you know being at the right spot at the right time but Bob was a good athlete and uh you know is also I believe was good either punt return or kickoff return I know he’s a good returner but a very good flyer for Coach Clayburn he is and he will be mentioned again in in the next episode when we start talking about special teams all right let’s go to the second team we have Lloyd burus Lis Sanders Ken shroy and mue Williams will start with Lloyd burs who played 76 to 80 so I think he missed you is under coach Clayborn tied for second alltime in interceptions number 78 pick in the NFL draft Yeah he was he was really a good player I know it was a good Pro I believe he went with Kansas City uh played quite a while in the NFL big kid you know that could run pretty well and you know did a did a very good job for Coach clayber leis Sanders played 96 to 99 he’s second tied for second and there are three players who have 10 interceptions he’s one of them leis Sanders 96 to 99 and a number 95 pick in the NFL draft uh I guess not quite into your coaching days there late 90s I don’t know a lot about Lewis at all okay Ken shroy one of the other guys with 10 interceptions tied for second all time he was a num number 248 pick in the NFL draft he played 72 to 74 so you probably had him as a graduate assistant I did I coached the the defense uh at that time for the freshman team at that time we had freshman teams and Kenny Troy was on there and and so was the um Lewis Carter and Randy White and they were probably the reason I decided to get in the coach he was really really a good player played with the Jets did a great job in the pros too uh excellent football player and the final guy on the second team for defensive backs mue Williams who played in the early 2000s 2002 to 2003 he was a second Team all ACC player he’s 10th all time in interceptions in Maryland history in the number 56 pick in the NFL draft the second rounder mue originally went to talson State and Gordy I forget Gordy was the coach there I forget his last name right now but um he called me and said Ralph this kid wants to go to Maryland he said they didn’t offer him but he said he’s really a division one football player and he’s gonna leave here and go somewhere do you have a scholarship for him and I said I don’t but if he if he come through for a spring practice I’ll put him on scholarship the next year so he actually paid to come as a walkon and went through spring practice and he he he had an offer by the time about the fifth practice you’re on scholarship next year so um you know he was good enough he was good enough to play corner for us in fact if we had a guy we had to shut down a lot of times we will move him to Corner if we got somebody hurt we’d move him to corner but he was a really good safety and uh he he was a very physical guy and U you know I the 202 team 2003 team I think eight guys eight guys on that defense maybe nine made the NFL that’s pretty good we really we had a really good defense that that year and offense too but the the defense was excellent and Muk came in and really solidified that and um and so it it was you know a lot of things just kind of went right for us and you know I was very fortunate good Lord blessed blessed us with really good players and good coaches yeah well back to backto back double digit Victory seasons are evidence of that right how good that defense was nine of them in the NFL okay third team defensive backs Tony Jackson Tonia Conan Darnell Savage and Kenneth Tate start with Tony Jackson so he was mostly under Vander Lindon but probably had one year with you coach in 2001 tied for fifth all time in interceptions at Maryland he was an LA ACC first team player think he was a baseball player also he he was a an excellent athlete and he was the guy I was talking about with with Bob Smith is that you know he had a great great eye for the ball a great feel and and really did a great job for us as a leader also for our defense in 2001 Antonio Conan very similar here 98 to 2001 he was also an O ACC first team player and only played six games in 200 won he had six interceptions and played in six games and got hurt and couldn’t play the rest of the year and then um uh shimer called me when he was coaching with the Chargers and they were gonna sign him as a free agent and I he said to me can he play and I said yeah he can play I said he’s just got to stay well and he went there and actually made the team and then came home and was working out and and hurt himself and then you know couldn’t play anymore but uh Tony was playing really good football for me for first six weeks of the Season Darnell Savage 2015 to 2018 he’s fifth all time and passes defended seventh all time in interceptions and he was the number 22 pick in the NFL draft good obviously uh with multiple ranking high in multiple stat categories there I played against him you know when I was at ruter and uh you know he he’s he was a really good player he’s playing well I think for Green Bay right now and uh doing very very well as a as a safety for them yep Kenneth Tate 2008 to 2012 he was an L ACC first team player but that might not have been until after you left yeah he he was he you know he was very highly recruited um you know I really thought he had a great family um I used to enjoy his younger brother I wonder how how he used to get my golf cartt with me but um Kenny played really well for us and he could play you know he was kind of in between he could play safety or he could play could play linebacker he could play up in the Box he could play deep six3 kid who could really run and and very good athlete and uh really happily he came to Maryland all right let’s look at our underrated defensive back and we’ve got a relatively recent player Deonte Banks tied for six and passes defended doesn’t rank that high in some of the other categories only with two interceptions um he’s midlevel in terms of tackles but he was the number 24 pick in the NFL draft that’s evidence of how dominant he was I would have loved to coach him he I you know I watched some highlights of him there was a first round pick for the Giants who I follow New York gu but uh he’s playing really well and looks like a really good athlete too and um looks like he’s very motivated to be really really good player so yeah my hats are off the D Dante Heath really really credit to Maryland I was surprised he was so low in some of the stats actually and that’s why I think he he I think he was hurt and didn’t play for whole year I think yeah and they also had the covid year so he had pieces of different years and things like that so that probably contributed to it as well you’re right coach all right let’s go to our honorable mention defensive backs we’ve got jakorian Bennett also another recent defensive back uh 2020 to 2022 under coach locks don’t know a whole lot about him but lock recruited him I’m sure he’s a pretty good player he’s he’s a great player he was uh he is first all time in passes defended in Maryland history and he was the number uh 104 pick in the NFL draft Antoine B Brooks 2016 to 2019 another one who doesn’t rank that although he’s second in tackles all time amongst defensive backs this guy was for me the life of the party on the defensive side in the late teens he was he was a monster back there coach I’m sure he was yeah okay turkey Brown we’ve been talking about turkey Brown 1984 to 1985 Donald turkey Brown what about him Coach I could I could tell you about 10 stories about this guy I mean he all right what’s the give us some good ones well turkey Brown transferred from Oklahoma he was from uh the Annapolis Area in in Maryland went to Oklahoma and um decided to transfer to Maryland and um he had a disagreement wasn’t going to class you know coach Ross pull him in and you know it’s a long story but coach kind of threw him off the team because he didn’t feel like he was taking his academic seriously so I take Gloria to Anapolis for our anniversary and we went to Reen’s which was a a restaurant owned by Reon who played basketball for the bullets and who is the doorman but turkey Brown well he takes he takes us in brings us upstairs just tells tells me he’s going to be back he’s going to he’s going to Junior College he’s going to get his ra and he’s going to walk on in in September and Gloria says boy what a nice young man he is I could coach just threw him off the team I don’t know about that well he comes he shows up and Bobby lets him come on to to walk on so we’re having two of days and we’re having our last scrimmage which is the best against the rest and turkey’s on with the rest well turkey runs for like three or four touchdowns against our best team defense he was back on scholarship that night we had so many running backs back then you know that we moved him to defensive back and he um he played really well for us and I can remember the one play he made was the game against Miami where we came back and they had a they had a I think I think his name was JB Brown they had a wide receiver that was a really good wide receiver turkey was playing too deep and they threw a fade and he came over and and hit him in the in the hole and I could he told me later he told him I’m the baddest Brown on the field today but he’s yeah he’s good player and I I got to see him some when he went he he played with Miami for a couple years and I went to a I was coaching at Georgia Tech then and I was I went to a Falcons uh camp and he was Miami was there and he was playing for Miami came up my SP spent some time with him but uh he really played well for Maryland when I was there good story of persistence there stick to it when things go wrong and they could turn out right he ended up being drafted 129th overall so worked out for him Nolan Carol who played for you coach in the late 2000s 2006 to 2009 yeah you know he this this kid was a really good player from from Florida and um had a really good family and I wanted to make him a wide receiver and U we were struggling for wide receivers and and he was like second team you know on our um on our depth chart as a as a defensive back and I told him I said look you know you can move the wide receiver you you’re probably gonna be first team said no coach I want to be a defensive back well not only did he end up starting the defensive back he end up playing the pros for about I don’t know about eight years and really he could really run and he could hit and he was he he he was true to what he wanted to do you got to listen to him when they want to do that and we slot right in there alphabetically who was accidentally listed as a linebacker but should have been here in the defensive backs is karum Cox coach yeah corome was one of those guys that uh played on played on my early teams 2001 to 2003 he was our boundary corner and um he really uh was a excellent boundary Corner not only because he could cover but because he was a very physical guy and we like to roll that corner up a lot and get him part of the Run game so uh you know grome is coaching at Virginia right now and um is has really done a great job he was also a very good student in Maryland I think he averaged over a 3 0 while he was there and you know again we we wouldn’t have won 31 games in three years we didn’t have players like garon sea Davis in the in the early teens he is the all-time leader in tackles for defensive backs in Maryland history yeah at 319 as a as a in the secondary so that’s pretty cool uh also 14 passes defended ranks pretty high it looks like they are three players higher than that so he’s fourth and passes defended as well he was 58th in the NFL draft the second round there just a dominant player in the early teams under edel yeah I think I remember him you know I also know this next guy William lley I know he he played I guess I played against him when I was at ruter also but uh yes William likely played 2013 to 2016 he’s very interesting he ranks pretty high in tackles actually he I don’t know if a good thing or a bad thing when the secondary is ranking high in tack yeah that’s a good point yeah that shouldn’t be but he also has a ton of passes defended ranks amongst the leaders all time in history there he made two first team All Conference but he made them for special teams which we’re going to get to in our next episode as a defensive back he’s got some really good stats he didn’t have the same kind of accolades he wasn’t drafted in the NFL that’s why we have as an honorable mention here okay Chad Scott 95 to 96 Chad Scott is tied for seventh all time in interceptions he was the 24th pick a first rounder in the NFL draft I think he went to to Pittsburgh didn’t he I don’t remember that was in the NFL at that time that’s why yeah yeah tarim steel who no yeah he just finished up with the turps uh coach tar still 166 tackles which is really good 21 passes defended which is third all time in Maryland history he did have six interceptions which is tied for about 11th there he was drafted 137th in the NFL and then Josh Wilson who played 2003 to 2006 coach he was let’s see here Josh Wilson 128 tackles so mid-range for a defensive back there but 55th a second round pick in the NFL draft yeah he he was really good player you know interesting thing about Josh his dad played for for U coach clayon Tim Wilson and his dad passed away and his mom you know was kind of interesting because Josh went to damaa and uh you know I I got to know his mom and she would come to practice quite a bit and um it it turned out that uh she ended up going back to graduate school so both Josh and her w Really Admiral at the same time not interest it’s not often that you see your your player and his mother at uh in at Maryland at one time but she would come by all the time and Josh end up playing with the Redskins played played in the NFL quite a few teams and I think he still might be coaching I don’t know I think might be I heard he might be coaching at DBS at D manthan and that is going to do it for the linebackers and the defensive backs great linebackers great defensive backs some guys I didn’t really know of in history who have were just great TPS and so hopefully some people were going to watch this series and realize some of the players they didn’t really ever think about in history some of those guys here and some of the more recent guys coach tell everybody for the fourth time how to find football by frien it’s on H YouTube and Instagram and um you know it’s just just me talking about some of the big games we played when I was there well as if people like these stories they’re going to like that even more so we’re going to put the link to that in the description we’re going to put a link to all the episodes in the description as well thank you guys very much we’ve got one more to go that’s going to be special teams and coaches this is IMS radio
