Another college football writer pegs the Terps last in the Atlantic Division, season three of  ‘Terrapins Rising’ debuts Tuesday and this from Gary Williams on Greivis Vasquez’s quasi-double-guarantee, per Dan Steinberg:

But you can see where some coaches might not want their star players predicting ACC regular season and tourney titles in early July, so when I saw Gary Williams during his Comcast SportsNet work at the Tiger Tourney, I asked him if he heard Greivis’s latest.

“I’m afraid,” he said. “Go ahead.”  (More after the jump)

“I like that,” Williams said. “So what that he said it? if you don’t believe you can do that, you’ll never do it. In other words, when we got to the Final Four in 2001, we had most of those guys back, and so we believed we could win the national championship the following year. And we had credibility to that, we did. But we weren’t the only team, I’m sure, that felt that way, or were good enough to win the national championship.”

Later, Williams joked that Vasquez yells at him in Spanish. Those two are just so perfect for each other.

- The Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Tony Barnhart predicted the Terps would finish dead last in the Atlantic Division. He’s not the first and probably won’t be the last.

The Terps, Wake Forest and Boston College, who should be the bottom three teams in the division, are basically in the same position talent-wise and could finish in any order. After the much-respected Phil Steele predicted the Terps last, you get the feeling most of these other prognosticators are just following his lead without any real idea.

But either way you look at it, it’s more evidence coach Ralph Friedgen could have a challenging season on his hands.

- The third season of ‘Terrapins Rising,’ the show that chronicles the Terps’ spring season, debuts Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. on Comcast SportsNet.

Last year’s show, during James Franklin’s first year back with the team, featured some eyebrow raising proclamations, such as how the receiving corps was the fastest he had ever coached, including in his time with the Green Bay Packers. Also, Franklin predicted the 2008 offense would average 50 points per game.

That didn’t work out, but the entire episode on the Terps’ pre-dawn workout sessions at the Armory was entertaining, and something you rarely get to see.

Aaron Kraut is The Diamondback’s sports editor. He can be reached at akrautdbk@gmail.com 

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