I used a lot of emotion in the last few columns. Not this time. After last night, I am starting to expect that things will not go well, especially on the road for the Maryland basketball team.
I have told my kids that “you have a problem when the yelling stops”. What that means is when you are dealing with an emotional person and they have been yelling and screaming and it stops, you then have a problem. The problem you have is that they don’t care anymore.
You all know this from your own lives. You ask, and yell, and scream because you think that it can help. That there is a reason to ask for more because there is more to get. At some point you give up. You don’t care as much. It is not worth the yelling. You are not going to get what you want.
I have received a few, “what the heck happened last night” emails, but not as many as after the FSU game. It is starting to sink in that this is not going to be a good team in 2014. There is still time to turn it around, but the people I speak with are not looking for that anymore. The yelling has stopped.
One becomes resigned to the fact that any road win for the Terps is a surprise. It is hard to win on the road, but last night the game was there for the taking. We could not take it.
Pitt comes to Comcast on Saturday. I expect Maryland to be sky-high. And to win.
It is just that the win only means that we beat Pitt. It does not, at this time, mean progress is being made. It does not mean anything for the next game. At this point, the only way the Terps can convince me that the team is getting better is to win the game. And the next game and so on.
The games are winnable. Pitt on Saturday, Miami at 9p on Wednesday and @ VT on Saturday.
So no panic this time, just win the next three. Come on guys, you can do it.