When you’re a head coach and you open a press session by saying, “I lost my locker room,” the room goes silent. And that’s exactly what happened when Maryland coach Mike Locksley showed up at Big Ten Media Days and dropped that bombshell. But the bigger shock might be for coach Locksley himself, who could now be staring at the real possibility of losing his seat.

Locksley’s candid confession wasn’t revealing just the internal strife, but also how deep the fractures ran. His explanation was centered on NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) disparities: “For me to stand in front of a group of media and tell you that I lost my locker rom, and it wasn’t because I wasn’t a good coach, it wasn’t because they weren’t good players because we were better than a four-win team. What we had to do

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