Shaq Smith had just arrived in College Park, but it didn’t take long for him to feel right at home.
The Baltimore native and former Clemson linebacker was back together with Cory Robinson, Maryland’s new defensive backs coach. Robinson had been a mentor to Smith since seventh grade, and while they overlapped for just one season at Calvert Hall High School, the graduate transfer speaks of Robinson as a father figure.
“It’s indescribable,” Smith said. “Having him being in my corner since I was in the seventh grade and going from middle school to high school and now being able to reunite in college, it’s not often that is done at this level.