Maryland Maryland remaining humble while preparing for Washington

Maryland coach Mike Locksley does not buy media threshing.

Although his team has taken a 4-0 start, he is not ready to make big proclamations about the terraaps entering a Big Ten conference match on Saturday with Washington at College Park, MD.

“I do not feel the swell of excitement because I try to make sure,” said Locksley on IMS radio. “I came to the school of thought of Nick Saban: do not take the cheese, do not eat the Rat poison, because there were not many people in December and January (supporting us) when everyone left this place and went from other places and there was not much direction.

“As we have understood. We have set up a good list. Now the goal is to continue to find a way to develop and build it so that we can recover this thing on the right track.”

The terraaps, which have not yet followed this season, opened the conference on September 20 with a victory of 27-10 at Wisconsin, then had a Bye last week.

The defense of Maryland was stellar. The terraaps grant only 10.8 points per game and entered the Bye last week with the most bags (16) and the (eight) interceptions in the country.

“This is not something on which we are going to hang our hat,” said the defensive line player Dillan Fontus. “These are always the first four games. We are not worried about statistics and things like that. It is just a testimony to all the work we put … it’s more a expectation than a surprise or something to suspend your hat.”

The Huskies (3-1, 0-1 Big Ten) had sailed before a defeat of 24-6 at home last week against the Ohio State n ° 1 in their first conference match. They committed six penalties – two on the Jedd Fisch coach – and Demond Williams Jr. was dismissed six times.

“When you play the country’s n ° 1 team, they know how to win,” said Fisch. “They have won a lot. They win every year. And if you will be able to finish the match and be able to win these matches, these penalties cannot occur. These bags cannot occur. The errors that have been committed cannot occur.”

Williams, a second year student who completes 75.6% of his attempts to pass, was 18 out of 22 for 226 yards against Buckeyes.

Fisch suggested that it could have been better if Williams had finished fewer passes – throwing the ball instead of taking a bag.

“I must help Demond to understand that incompletion is sometimes correct,” said Fisch. “It does not throw a lot of incompleteness at all. Sometimes – which leads to hold the ball a little longer and unfortunately, it can sometimes turn into a bag.”

– field level media