For the second year in a row Wednesday, a highly touted football recruit veered from his projected choice and chose National Signing Day to flip to Maryland. Locksley did not disagree with the notion that fans might begin to assume that he can pull off more rabbit-from-a-hat magic in the future.
“It’s a lot of pressure to keep doing this,” he said Wednesday with a smile after the team announced its class of 21 new players. “I’d like to get to the point where it’s not a big deal to get a five-star player, a four-star player to flip because we’ve created through that growth phase of our program to where it’s expected where they’re not necessarily flips anymore.