The Maryland football team had landed perhaps its most important recruit of coach Michael Locksley’s short tenure, meaning the adhesive nameplate could finally join the others. Offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery, celebrating with the Terps’ staff inside their recruiting war room, walked over to a wall with 16 other stickers. The new name would go at the very top.
Lance LeGendre might not be the program’s immediate answer under center, nor is he even the class’ top-rated recruit. But at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, on the last of two signing days for the Class of 2019, the four-star dual-threat quarterback’s announcement at his New Orleans school that he was signing with Maryland reverberated 1,000 miles away.