Over 200 people came to the MGN meet and greet where the entire football coaching staff gathered to mingle with fans. After an hour of socializing, Larry Grabenstein kicked things off by welcoming all in attendance. Coach Friedgen spoke next and stressed the importance of helping the football program by joining the MGN. Our strength, he said, is our numbers. We have over 150,000 living alumni in a one hour radius of the University. We need their help! Next up was Coach Don Brown, new defensive coordinator, who got the crowd excited about his pressing blitzing defense! We need more INTs and TOs for touchdowns and much effort is going into this goal. New Special Teams Coordinator, Charles Bankins, reminded us all that he coaches all the players on the team because all are involved in Special Teams! His desire is to give us great field position and score points on FGs, too! Coach Franklin in his 2nd year as Offensive Coordinator spoke about the comfort that our players feel in the second year of his system. We have some great offensive weapons in our receiving corps and backs. Chris Turner in his 4th year is the starting QB and has a confidence that should be a benefit this year. Jamarr Robinson is coming on strong as the number 2 guy.
Following the coaches talks and Q and A's, drawings were done for TERP stuff. We had about 30 winners. The fans that showed up had a great time and Sonoma's had some great deals on food and drink. We even had a Hokie fan, Ron Cote, JOIN the MGN!!! We picked up 10 new memberships and need many more.
If you missed this event we will be doing the same thing at Caddie's on Cordell in Bethesda, August 6th! Hope to see you there!!!
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It was a fantqstic event! Go Terps!
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