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Maryland and the New Coach effect

mikegsvu

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l've always had a theory that when a coach is fired mid-season and an interim coach is named, teams can often gin themselves up for that next/first game, whether to show the new guy what they've got or it's simply a breath of fresh air. After that, my sense is that they tend to settle back to the norm, or rather to go back to where their true talent takes them.

We can argue about how good PSU is this year, but the Terps played well yesterday, on a somewhat neutral site. So the question I have for the Lounge is this: do we see the "punching above their weight" Maryland this week, or the one that really isn't a very good football team? And bearing in mind that from here on out, Iowa will get everyone's best shot.
 
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