'Best Football Ahead' For Terps As Buckeyes Loom

As a rule, coaches and players do not admit to being privy to chatter outside of their collective team bubbles. Positive or negative, they publicly insist it does them no good to pay attention to what reporters, fans and the like have to say. But it’s pretty much impossible to block out all the white noise, and from time to time they’ll acknowledge they’re at least partially aware of what’s being communicated about them.