08-12-2015, 12:14 AM
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps...olumn.html
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Quote:The Maryland program is just starting to reap the fruits of the enhanced recruiting potential of the Big Ten. The Terps are still — in a sense — making the transition from the ACC to a burlier conference that has long emphasized stout line play on both sides of the ball and, because of that, drawn the best and biggest lineman to the traditional Big Ten powers.
Coach Randy Edsall knew that coming in, but facing those big offensive and defensive lines on a weekly basis last season just reinforced his belief that his team had to get bigger and stronger up front to be a viable Big Ten team this year and an elite one in the future.
"That was one of the things that I thought that we needed to improve upon — that we had to get a little bit bigger so we could run the ball better and stop the run better,'' he said. "That's something that we started addressing a year ago with this past class that we brought in. Moving forward, that's what we have to [do] because that's what I saw was the difference going from the ACC to the Big Ten."