Throughout Mike Locksley’s tenure as head coach at Maryland, each season has been a familiar routine for fans.
The season starts with optimistic — but tempered — expectations, and the team beats up on a weak nonconference schedule as excitement builds for a big game against a highly-ranked opponent.
Then, Maryland gets walloped. Fans rush to their phones to google the date of the first basketball game. From a fan engagement perspective, the season is more or less over.
This was the case in 2019, when Penn State came to College Park and obliterated the Terps, 59-0.