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Maryland football making ‘significant’ changes to prevent season from spiraling

Coach Mike Locksley said Maryland football, which is 0-3 in the Big Ten, will undergo significant changes to save its season.
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“We’ve had some challenging moments in the first half of the season, and as a result, I’ve made some tough decisions and significant moves internally,” Locksley said.

Locksley said Maryland will undergo wide-scale operational and behind-the-scenes overhauls, maybe the most dramatic of the coach’s uneven tenure.

Locksley took over play-calling duties last week from offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, who held that responsibility since he was hired before the 2023 season. In the first trial of that adjustment, Maryland scored a season-low 10 points against an opponent that was previously allowing more than double that. It gave the Terps their fifth consecutive loss out of a bye week — Locksley has never won such a game.

The coach declined to say if he will continue to call plays this week and beyond but said his influence in the offense won’t go away.

Locksley also didn’t rule out personnel and lineup changes, as well as tweaks to the team’s practice and game-planning routines. He declined to specify what they’d look like but said fans will see them on the field.
 


swingman said:
www.baltimoresun.com

Maryland football making ‘significant’ changes to prevent season from spiraling

Coach Mike Locksley said Maryland football, which is 0-3 in the Big Ten, will undergo significant changes to save its season.
www.baltimoresun.com www.baltimoresun.com

“We’ve had some challenging moments in the first half of the season, and as a result, I’ve made some tough decisions and significant moves internally,” Locksley said.

Locksley said Maryland will undergo wide-scale operational and behind-the-scenes overhauls, maybe the most dramatic of the coach’s uneven tenure.

Locksley took over play-calling duties last week from offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, who held that responsibility since he was hired before the 2023 season. In the first trial of that adjustment, Maryland scored a season-low 10 points against an opponent that was previously allowing more than double that. It gave the Terps their fifth consecutive loss out of a bye week — Locksley has never won such a game.

The coach declined to say if he will continue to call plays this week and beyond but said his influence in the offense won’t go away.

Locksley also didn’t rule out personnel and lineup changes, as well as tweaks to the team’s practice and game-planning routines. He declined to specify what they’d look like but said fans will see them on the field.
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Anyone know what Fleck's record is in the first game after a bye?
 

Feels like every year he scrapes by and does just enough to keep his job. Unfortunately for him he missed the easy front half of the schedule this year and they may get pummeled here down the stretch
 

Word said:
They have a head coach with a 34-62 head coaching record....that might be the root of the problem.
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Yeah he seems like a guy more fitted to be an offensive coordinator.
 



Good chance to get win #5. A passing team that's currently struggling, and at home off a bye to boot. We'll see what the line is but I'm probably taking the Gophers minus the points.
 






I Realize he doesn't want to give any secrets away but it seems more likely he doesn't realllly have any to tell.
 

Posted this on January 2020 and it still applies.

Locksley seems to be an excellent o-coordinator. As a head coach, I think he is the worst in the Big Ten by a long ways. That guy can't run a program. I'm glad Maryland has him.
 




I'm not saying Locksley is a really good coach, but they've won 7/8/8 games the last three consecutive seasons, all with bowl wins. In the B1G East.

Maryland is a meh football program and they've usually had pretty good offenses. Terps could do worse
 

Zeppelin Gopher said:
I'm not saying Locksley is a really good coach, but they've won 7/8/8 games the last three consecutive seasons, all with bowl wins. In the B1G East.

Maryland is a meh football program and they've usually had pretty good offenses. Terps could do worse
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Last year they lost 2 of 3 games to west teams and only beat lower-end east teams. Their non-con was incredibly easy where they picked up 4 wins. Their only big ten wins were MSU, Rutgers, Indiana, and Nebraska.
 



Nike > Under Armour. Of course, beggars can't be choosers. We've got Jox.
 

Zeppelin Gopher said:
I'm not saying Locksley is a really good coach, but they've won 7/8/8 games the last three consecutive seasons, all with bowl wins. In the B1G East.

Maryland is a meh football program and they've usually had pretty good offenses. Terps could do worse
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They could do worse, but I don’t see why they can’t do better given there is plenty of talent to recruit nearby. Not sure what has kept them down as a program. Outside of some good years under Friedgen they’ve been average to poor for the last four decades.
 

Sparlimb said:
Guy has recruited extremely well, but they never can beat the teams they should.
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They've had the opposite problem actually. Usually take care of Rutgers Indiana Michigan State etc but never got that huge breakthrough win.

They were super close to beating Ohio State in 2022
 

Maryland recruits a lot of good offensive skill players. Can explode on offense against any team that lets its defensive guard down.

Against P5 opponents this year: Gophers are averaging 20.0 points on offense; Maryland is averaging 25.4 points. On defense, the Gophers are yielding and average of 22.2 points; Maryland is yielding 27.8. On average, against P5 teams, Maryland has a better offense, the Gophs the better defense.

Recent trend is far more interesting. In past 2 Power 5 games (against USC and UCLA), the Gophers scored 45 points and yielded 34 points, for a positive 11 point differential. Maryland (against Indiana and Northwestern) scored 38 points and yielded 79, for a negative 41 point differential ... which is why "significant changes" are being made.

Gophers have not scored more than 24 points against a Power 5 team this year. That needs to change against a vulnerable Maryland defense. Pour it on! Don't play a razor-thin margin game against Maryland. And the Gophers defense needs to study what NW did, holding Maryland's normally explosive offense to 10 points.
 
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