Maryland coach Mike Locksley isn't buying into the hype.
Despite his team getting off to a 4-0 start, he isn't ready to make any grand proclamations about the Terrapins entering a Saturday Big Ten Conference matchup with Washington in College Park, Md.
"I don't feel the swell of excitement because I try to insulate myself," Locksley said on IMS Radio. "I came up in the Nick Saban school of thought: Don't take the cheese, don't eat the rat poison of it, because there weren't very many people in December and January (backing us) when everybody was leaving this place and going other places and there wasn't a lot of direction.
"We figured it out. We've put together a good roster. Now the goal is to continue to find a way to develop it and build on it so that we can get this thing back on tr