The scene got dire Saturday.
Maryland football flaunted an announced sellout crowd, its second of the season. It should have been a display of the impressive job athletic director Jim Smith has done in the early months of his tenure to highlight a successful homecoming weekend. But by the second quarter of a 55-10 loss to Indiana, many in that sea of red that Smith reeled in were chanting for the school — for Smith — to fire the football coach.
Michael Locksley heard them, he said Tuesday. It actually made him smile.