winning to y'all was more important than any other program i ever worked at really it was
and uh y'all would i tell people y'all would do anything uh to to be a good football player
and to win and i said sometimes that even meant going to class every now and then
i'm just joking y'all did good that's my memories of it very special very special scott you say what
yeah chick i was going to say going against this offense our offense was tough as hell so you know
you're going against running backs tommy neal uh and here comes Badanjek the bowling ball coming
around the end you're like oh crap here it comes play against those guys that sharpen us up for
games um absolutely since we we had some crazed people man we turkey brown bam bam keita our
covered the pass but man if you caught the ball in that secondary your head was coming off i am
so grateful number one for the university of maryland once again i'm from ohio i had a chance
to go to ohio state up i had a chance to go to michigan but i came to maryland and i will tell
you this it was the best decision i ever made in my life um i will tell you this too i wanted to
say something to ralph uh coach friedgen i'm sorry i should change that i was scared to death of him
and i was scared if i didn't score he was going to come down and kick the **** out of me to be honest
i don't know what the heck their meetings were like in there but i was scared of him you know
chick the big thing about the coach friedgen coaching offense online was he was so fundamental
so fundamental oriented i mean he was way ahead light years ahead in college
football on things that we were doing slip blocking you know aiming points landmarks
getting off the ball hand position that kind of stuff you just didn't hear that in college
football at the time right you know pass blocking equal balance in your stance stuff
like that that wasn't that back in the early 80s that just wasn't part of college football
you know if you watch old tapes now you'll see even the clemson games and coach
ross alluded to watching the clemson game if you watch that clemson game clemson's offensive line
their butts were up in the air like sprinters they didn't know how to pass block so to to wear the m
and and to wear the colors what does it mean to you guys today stan Gelbaugh you go first
well i think it you know it means we're winners we were winners that's that's what everybody said see
we're champions um you know we lost a couple games we probably should have won but for the most part
i think the overwhelmingly people think of us as the the the last good run that maryland's had
for an extended period of time coach friedgen had it going for a while it was a different league
then too though much different actually a lot of different teams but um you know i think as
a sustained championship run we were the last ones and i think people still remember us for that and
and it's awesome the brotherhood the togetherness um leaving the school as a man coming in
and leaving a totally different person and now i reflect back and uh two great leaders here um
that really changed my life um and a lot of things that i did in school i was a little wild and uh in
the end you know they they stuck behind me and uh i came out a man um probably some of the best
times of our lives uh love my family love my kids and all but as far as a group it was a
hell of a time in my life always had pride and that was instilled in us by our coaches
um you know i came from notre dame where everything was like you know you're gonna be
ranked in the top five every year every top five every year i was praying to god that this group
would have that we played with could have played notre dame because he would have smashed them
ourselves and in our team and our and our brothers and it's it we were a very diverse group from all
different backgrounds and and races and creeds and everything and i just remember this until this day
coach ross used to always preach tonight you know what look around the room and look at all the dif
and we all sat at the table together and he go and and i remember this like i remember yesterday when
we would go down to clemson he would say you know what take a look at those guys over there and see
how they're all segregated apart and but our our group i mean we loved each other just like that i
i would be with lenny i'd be in lenny's room one night and i'd be in turkey's room the next night
you're listening to freak the rap music one day and you're listening to to country one day and and
lenny's out there squirrel hunting and they're cutting squirrel heads off and putting them
on the windowsill and the next day you know it's crazy it was crazy but i'm telling you
there there couldn't have been a closer group from
different backgrounds and races and we were so close and that's what i remember from that