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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Mike Locksley had told his coaching friends for years and years that Maryland was the program he’d like to one day run. But when he left there at the end of the 2015 season, having coached six forgettable games as the interim after Randy Edsall’s firing, there was little reason to believe he’d ever make his way back.
Though Locksley was still in his early 40s with a reputation as a strong recruiter, the idea he would become a head coach again in the Football Bowl Subdivision — much less at a Power Five program — seemed unlikely.