Terry Richardson brings veteran element to Marshall secondary

Terry Richardson started playing as a true freshman in 2012 at Michigan.HUNTINGTON — Terry Richardson is one of just three Marshall players in his fifth major-college football preseason camp, so he isn’t fazed by his debut in a Thundering Herd practice uniform.

(The others, by the way, are Shawn Petty and Joe Massaquoi. Clint Van Horn is in his sixth.)

The 5-foot-9, 180-pound native of Detroit is learning a new defense and new terminology, and is heading into a new academic environment. But that’s not the biggest adjustment.

It’s the heat.

Let’s put it this way: When the Herd’s practice wrapped up Thursday, the temperature was 90 degrees, the heat index was 99 and the floor of Joan C. Edwards…