Over the summer, Maryland football coach Michael Locksley was participating in a Big Ten initiative in Alabama highlighting the civil rights movement when he recalled pausing to process the historical significance of his surroundings. He, along with other attendees, including Terrapins backup quarterback Champ Long, had walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the site of the Bloody Sunday march of 1965, and couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed.
Maryland football emphasized the right to vote. Every player registered.
