Bye Bye to Danny O'Brien?

[Floater]

Source: Maryland QB Danny O'Brien is leaving. Met with Randy Edsall today and will transfer. #Terps

Dan Hellie

[Birds of B'more]

Well, that would just about cancel any hopes of a turnaround in 2012. Guess that answers the question as to whether he will graduate this spring. Just a guess, but I'm thinking james Franklin is a happy guy right about now.

[BaltimoreTerp]

Well, that would just about cancel any hopes of a turnaround in 2012. Guess that answers the question as to whether he will graduate this spring. Just a guess, but I'm thinking james Franklin is a happy guy right about now.

I would assume the same thing.

Goddammit.

[Birds of B'more]

The interesting part here is that I saw yesterday that Locksley plans to run a pro-style offense, which would seem to be much more suited to DOB's strengths than what Crowton ran. Lord help us if they expect CJ Brown to be the QB in that kind of system. Might as well install the triple-option during spring practice now.

[Birds of B'more]

@DanHellie
Dan Hellie
O-lineman Max Garcia is also leaving Maryland. He met with Edsall as well today #Terps


Geez....I guess this is the second wave of The Exodus. Better go update that thread.

[Birds of B'more]

@DanHellie
Dan Hellie
This can not help the #Terps in regards to Stefon Diggs.


Yeah, I'm sure any interest Diggs had in the Terps was predicated on having a QB with the ability to throw the ball somewhere in his vicinity.

[JohnD]

New job meant I wasn't going to be able to renew my season tickets anyway. But holy crap, Edsall has to go.

[glenn__davis]

@DannyOBrien5 Contrary to rumor, I am still a Terp

[NewMarketSean]

@DannyOBrien5 Contrary to rumor, I am still a Terp

For the moment. Probably just waiting for the transfer to become official.

Not a huge Terps football fan but this does suck. I thought DOB looked like a mini-Flacco.

[Birds of B'more]

According to Eric Prisbell he will talk it over with family and decide over the weekend. I think that's a reasonable indication that he's likely gone.

[Tony-OH]

Losing DOB would suck, but let's remember, as bad as the offense was last year, O'Brien was pretty bad as well. A bad offense doesn't make you inaccurate. I was hoping the change to Locksley would convince him to stay. Maybe he'll still stay, who knows?

[allstar1579]

Losing DOB would suck, but let's remember, as bad as the offense was last year, O'Brien was pretty bad as well. A bad offense doesn't make you inaccurate. I was hoping the change to Locksley would convince him to stay. Maybe he'll still stay, who knows?

But the flip side to that argument is the year before they changed the offense he was amazing, so I guess it's a chicken or the egg debate, did he have a bad year because of the changes and him not getting along with the coach, or was he just going to have a bad year either way? My money is on the coach who never should have been able to jump straight from UCONN to the ACC.

[glenn__davis]

But the flip side to that argument is the year before they changed the offense he was amazing, so I guess it's a chicken or the egg debate, did he have a bad year because of the changes and him not getting along with the coach, or was he just going to have a bad year either way? My money is on the coach who never should have been able to jump straight from UCONN to the ACC.

Eh, he was good his freshman year, but I think it's overstated a bit. Had a completion percentage of 57%. He did have a nice TD/INT ratio, particualry for a freshman. But he also had Torrey Smith on that team, who caught 12 of his 22 TDs.

I admit I am using hindsight, but just as there was reason to be enthusiastic about DOB going into last year, there was also reason to temper some of that enthusiasm.

I am with Tony. I would hate for DOB to leave, but he is not the MD program. If he goes, we'll see a lot o CJB and the two freshmen coming in will certainly be licking their chops.

BTW, I don't think it is at all a given that he would transfer to Vanderbilt. I think James Franklin is pretty happy with Jordan Rodgers, DOB would not waltz right in there as QB1.

[JohnD]

Stanford runs a pro-style offense, and has an opening....

[Dr. FLK]

DOB is a decent QB who had one pretty good year and one not so good year. I'm not sure why he gets so overrated...maybe it's because he was surrounded by so little talent that he seemed better than he was (sort of like the least ugly girl in a group of really ugly girls). He would have been better in a pro style offense than he was in whatever that offense was the ran last year. But he's not the second coming of Peyton Manning.