After Maryland football defeated Howard late on a Saturday night, head coach Michael Locksley prepared himself to tell the team that they would have to practice on Sunday. They had a shortened week with a road trip game to Illinois coming up quickly on Friday.
This is a technique Locksley learned from his stint at Alabama: one game on Saturday with the next on the following Friday, slide the practice schedule up and put the work in.
He gathered his leadership group of 14 players comprised of a mix of walk-ons and scholarship players to explain this philosophy.