A football appreciation like never before

Terps back to practice after Big Ten restart

SEASON.

IT'S AFTER COVID-19PRESENTED ONE OF THE MOSTTURBULENT AND CONTROVERSIALSUMMERS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALLHISTORY.

WMAR-2 NEWS SHAWNSTEPNER CAUGHT UP WITH COACHLOCKSLEY AND PLAYERS TODAY.

HEHAS MORE FROM COLLEGE PARK.For Maryland football the loveof the game has never beenstronger.

Mike Locksley, TerpsHead Coach: Just being able tosee the guys running around,the energy level of thepractices have just beenremarkable.

I think therethat appreciation that youdonuntil itback.

The Terpsnew life.

The Big TenConference reversing courselast week and approving a fallschedule after originallypostponing the season in earlyAugust.

Itwhirlwind for players.

TahjCapehart, Terps DefensiveBack: We was kind of all overthe place.

We was reallypushing to have a season thenthey shut the Big Ten down.Now weWeCobbs, Terps Wide Receiver:Excitement is through theroof.

Itrollercoaster, just gettingshut down, being resumed toplay, back-and-forth, back-and-forth.

Just the fact thatwe have a date where wegoing to play on TV, It thinkthatguys.

That date, the newseason opener, October 24 atNorthwestern.

Who starts atquarterback is a huge questionfor Maryland.

Lance LeGendreand Alabama transfer TauliaTagovailoa battling it out.For Taulia, the youngerbrother of Dolphinsquarterback Tua, the seasondelay may have helped him.Locksley: For Taulia, I thinkthe time has allowed him toreally get to know histeammates.

You learn a lotabout people when you gothrough adversity together,and for all of us, societyincluded, going through theadversity of a pandemic.

Yes,the pandemic is the cloud thathangs over this 2020 season.The most important job for theTerps this year, staying COVIDsafe around a college campus.Locksley: We use the term’behavior modificationwe live our life on a day-to-day basis will be reallyimportant for us to continueto play.

Cobbs: No guys arelike going out to parties,going out to bars, anythinglike that.

Capehart: We allknow whatworld we live in today.

So, inorder for us to play footballwe have to do the right thing.In College Park, ShawnStepner, WMAR-2 News.IT'S A MARQUEE MONDAY NIGHTMATCHUP BETWEEN THE DEF