{"id":246282,"date":"2025-10-23T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246282\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:32:09","slug":"amid-speculation-about-mike-locksleys-job-status-marylands-football-plan-becomes-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246282\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid speculation about Mike Locksley’s job status, Maryland’s football plan becomes clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, though, the Terps stumbled to a 4-8 record after winning bowl games three years in a row for the first time in program history.\u00a0Fans might have more patience stored up this year had it come after one of those three bowl seasons.\u00a0Maryland<\/a> and Locksley were trending upward incrementally before last season crashed.<\/p>\n

Locksley said afterward that NIL shortage caused jealousy that led to him losing his locker room. Junior Daniel Wingate<\/a>, one of the Big Ten’s best linebackers and another elite building block for next year assuming he returns, echoed Locksley’s sentiments about last season.<\/p>\n

“Once the losing started going on, there was a lot of bickering going back and forth, a lot of, ‘This guy shouldn’t be playing, this guy shouldn’t be doing that,'” Wingate said<\/a> before this season. “It was a mess.”<\/p>\n

Unlike last year’s team, this Terps group has remained close and kept an optimistic collective attitude despite the losses. A lot of fans, though, understandably have not. While some view this half-season of near-success and the young talent as\u00a0the recipe for a breakout in 2026, others have given up hope, hammering Locksley on social media.<\/p>\n

“Some of it is expected and understandable,” a source said. “But the team\u00a0has really improved from last year and it’s mostly young guys.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, though, the Terps stumbled to a 4-8 record after winning bowl games three years in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-246282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}