Terrence Ross had his facebook ambushed after his decision to re-open his recruitment. Courtesy montrosebasketball.com
Terrapin fans want Terrence Ross to come to Maryland badly.
Possibly too badly.
Ross has been hard to reach since his decommitment from Maryland, and his high school coach Stu Vetter has pledged that he would not be talking to the media in-season. However, in his few contacts with the media, he has mentioned that Maryland fans attacked his Facebook page in the days following the news of him re-opening his recruitment.
“They just got outta control,” Ross told the Diamondback via text message of the posters on his page. Rabid Maryland fans wrote on his wall, saying “they need me, that they will do anything to keep me there, and just weird stuff,” Ross said.
Ross’s wall was littered with posts along the lines of “You’re making a mistake, come to Maryland!” and “Come back! We need you! We will do anything!” A rash of posts broke out when the news that he was considering Duke surfaced, and his status eventually read something to the tune of “Relax UMD fans, it isn’t definite I’m going to Duke!” To that, certain fans wrote on his wall that other schools did not have the dedication that UMD fans had, which they were displaying by posting.
Ross insisted that these posters did not change his perception of Maryland, but that they made him uncomfortable. “I didn’t know any of them so it was kind of overdoing it.”
In an interview with highschoolhoop.com, Ross elaborated. “I had to close my Facebook page,” Ross told the site. “They were just posting crazy stalker-ish type stuff. It was crazy! They were upset!”
Ross also stated in the interview that he started having second thoughts about his decision to commit to Maryland “months ago,” so the Facebook fiasco had no bearing on his decision to decommit.
Despite this incident and Ross’s decommitment, Vetter painted a brighter picture for Ross’s Maryland prospects in a recent radio interview.
“And when we talk in terms of Maryland, we don’t talk in terms of a de-commitment. We just re-opened his recruitment to a limited number of schools,” Vetter said. “…He still has a lot of interest in Maryland, and I think his decision will come this spring, and it will be a more informed decision.”