Antwaine Richardson and Jake Funk, two of the oldest players on the Maryland football team, remember their welcome-to-college-football moments vividly.
An early enrollee who joined the program in January 2016, Richardson waltzed into his first workout that month with the kind of bravado typically found in rookies. Despite sitting out his senior year at Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach, Florida, because of a torn ACL, he still thought he could keep up with his newest teammates.
“I thought I was in shape,” Richardson, a fifth-year safety, said with a laugh. “But they let me know that you had to come with a different type of intensity for the first college workout.