Michael Locksley remembers the conversation vividly.
He'd completed his fourth season as running backs coach at Maryland in the fall of 2000, and his head coach, Ron Vanderlinden, had recently been fired.
Locksley sat down for a talk with his new boss, Ralph Friedgen.
Friedgen had played on Maryland's offensive line in the 1960s and twice served on the Terps' coaching staff in the '70s and '80s. He had been hired to guide the program back to the prominence it hadn't experienced since the days of Bobby Ross in the mid-'80s.
