When newly hired Maryland football defensive coordinator Andy Buh met the Terps, he got straight to the point.

With spring practice already in full swing, Buh didn’t give a lengthy introduction or devote much time to icebreakers.

“I’m the coach. You’re the player,” defensive lineman Jesse Aniebonam recalled Buh saying. “We’re going to have a good relationship, but we have to get right to work.”

When Scott Shafer resigned as defensive coordinator for undisclosed personal reasons earlier this month after taking the job in December, head coach DJ Durkin quickly filled the void with Buh. The former Kentucky assistant coach was introduced April 5 and has hit the ground running. On a staff full of energetic young coaches, Buh fit in immediately.

“He’s brought the same type of intensity that the rest of the coaches brought,” Aniebonam said after practice Tuesday. “He came in with a mindset that we have to keep everything rolling and have the same type of intensity as we’ve been having throughout the whole entire spring and the winter.”

While the Terps have been practicing for less than two weeks under Buh, they already like his energy. Buh is critical, Aniebonam said, but his intensity at practice benefits the Terps. Aniebonam’s teammates agree.

“He’ll be a good asset,” defensive lineman David Shaw said. “He’s as energetic as Coach Durkin.”

Buh inherits a unit that lost two starters along the defensive line, defensive ends Quinton Jefferson and Yannick Ngakoue. The duo combined for 20 sacks and 27.5 tackles for loss last season, and both opted to leave school early to pursue NFL careers.

Aniebonam, who started three games last year, is one of the players who will try to replicate their production. Last season, the Silver Spring native was a defensive end. In the Terps’ new scheme that alternates between the 4-3 and 3-4, Aniebonam is more of a hybrid end.

“It’s not a major shift,” Aniebonam said. “It’s all really the same thing.”

SATELLITE CAMPS DEBATE

Before Durkin came to Maryland, he worked for a year at Michigan. The Wolverines’ head coach, Jim Harbaugh, made national headlines by traveling around the country and working at satellite camps.

As a guest instructor at camps hosted by other schools, Harbaugh got to meet high-level football recruits and skirt the NCAA rule that prohibited schools from holding camps outside a 50-mile radius of their campus.

After seeing Harbaugh’s success, Durkin planned to follow that same route with the Terps. But Friday, the NCAA banned satellite camps.

“It was one of those things where you could see they were probably going to rule that way,” Durkin said Tuesday in his first public remarks since the ruling. “The satellite camps was a good thing. It was beneficial. You get to see a lot of guys. You get to take your camp somewhere else and put the expense on the school.”

But Durkin also understands why the NCAA decided to prohibit satellite camps.

“It becomes more things they’ve got to regulate,” Durkin said. “You can see these things going both ways.”

SPRING GAME

In Durkin’s first spring game with Maryland this Saturday, he will pit the offense versus the defense. The scoring system will be announced later in the week.

Durkin said that format makes the most sense for the Terps.

“That’s what we need to be as a team right now,” Durkin said. “We’ll get the most out of that. It’ll be a great day for people to come and watch and see what we’re doing on both sides of the ball.”

The Red-White game is slated to kick off at 12:30 p.m.