As Ty Johnson plucked the food off the stove and filled each plate with a piece of chicken parmigiana and a mound of spaghetti, the smell of garlic filled the apartment of the rising junior Maryland running back.
Dinner was served.
The tradition of Johnson feeding his fellow running backs — and one of his roommates, graduate placekicker Adam Greene — during spring practice continued Wednesday. Rising sophomores Lorenzo Harrison III and Jake Funk stopped playing their NBA video game and Greene, who graduated in December, put aside homework from a finance class.
"They're also serving chicken parm for dinner at Gossett," Greene said, referring to the main course the football team was fed after meetings that evening at the Gossett Team House.