“I think sometimes when you come in as a new leader, whether it’s a football coach or in business, that you tend to bite off a little more than you can chew initially,” said Locksley, who is entering his fifth season leading the Terrapins. “For us, we always want to be honest and transparent with our team and ourselves. . . .
“For the last three or four years, I’ve had a ton of players come to me and say, ‘Coach, we want to talk about championships.’ And I said, ‘Men, until we can worry about taking care of the things we can control, we can’t talk about championships.