Kevin Barnes probably doesn’t like me very much.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve probably asked him about everything he’s done between getting injured and the present as he’s tried to show NFL teams that he is healthy, short of what he had for breakfast at the NFL Combine.

It started with a short meeting at Terp Pro Day, continued with a wide-ranging 30-minute sitdown two weeks ago, and mercifully for him, concluded with a couple of follow-up phone calls since.

The result was this rather comprehensive piece in today’s paper.

But there were definitely some things from the quick-witted former Terp cornerback (he scored 41 on the Wonderlic test, you know) that fell through the cracks:

On his Wonderlic score, which was the top score reported: “If anybody doesn’t believe my score, I’ll go back and do it again. I was mad actually that I got 41. I thought I had at least 49.”

On Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry, who he realized he was formerly elementary school classmates with while they were training in Arizona: “I vaguely remembered him, but he wasn’t that big back then.”

On the new Terp defense led by coordinator Don Brown: “It sounds exciting. I kinda wish I coulda experienced it a little bit. That’s what NFL teams love to see, so I just tell them to just go out there and play as hard as you can because that’s what they’re looking for.”

On the thin job market for people with sociology degrees (He graduated with one last May): “As hard as the economy is right now, [football] is probably the easiest job I can get, realistically

On his desire to be a first day (top 2 round pick): “I’ll probably be devastated if I’m not, but regardless, as long as I make it, I’m fine.”

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