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Kevin Willard & Buzz Williams Introduced at New Schools
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4/3/2025
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All right, I wanted to play these two coaches.
00:02
They were both introduced yesterday for their new jobs.
00:05
Here's the great Kevin Willard, who jumped ship from Maryland
00:09
over to Villanova.
00:11
Here he is talking about why he wanted to go to Villanova.
00:15
And at the end of the day, he doesn't
00:17
want to talk about how things went at Maryland anymore.
00:19
Obviously, I think some of my comments
00:21
during the NCAA tournament probably
00:23
could have been a little bit less abrasive.
00:26
But unfortunately, sometimes when
00:29
my passion for my program, my passion for my players
00:31
come out, I get a little excited.
00:35
The only thing I'm going to say is normal fans just
00:40
don't understand what went on.
00:43
I had such a great team.
00:44
I was so focused on my team.
00:45
I was so focused on my players.
00:48
Winning those games, hitting a buzzer
00:50
beer against Colorado State, beating out West
00:53
with my team for 12 days was such a great experience for me.
00:58
We had so much fun out there.
01:01
The timeline, no one knows it.
01:02
No one understands it.
01:04
I can't change that, and I'm not worried about that.
01:06
All I'm going to say is that Maryland just
01:09
got a great coach and buzz, and I'm really happy for them.
01:11
And I'm super excited to be at a great basketball conference
01:15
here, and I just think it's time that everyone move on.
01:18
OK, so let me move on to this then, coach.
01:21
Thanks so much for all your advice.
01:23
This guy has been the one sweet 16.
01:27
He is the most overrated basketball coach
01:29
I've ever seen in my life that keeps getting big jobs.
01:32
I mean, honest to God.
01:34
Like, let's just stop with all this nonsense.
01:38
And it's pretty obvious he's a backstabber.
01:40
I mean, like, what more do you need to know the way he
01:43
handled the team in Maryland?
01:45
Like, who didn't he throw under the bus at Maryland?
01:48
And then, like, he lied through his teeth the whole time.
01:52
Like, so we know who he really is now full on.
01:55
So enjoy him while you got him in there,
01:59
and watch your wallets and cell phones.
02:03
Watch your wallets and cell phones, indeed.
02:05
So Buzz Williams was introduced at Maryland.
02:07
Did he hear all of the things that Kevin Willard was
02:11
saying last week about the program
02:13
and how there needs to be more that gets done, et cetera?
02:17
Buzz apparently knew nothing about that
02:19
when he took the Maryland job.
02:20
Liar.
02:21
I think that that's not to speak ill towards Coach
02:25
Willard or the team.
02:27
I didn't hear all of it, nor do I think all of it's important.
02:31
But relative to what I thought was
02:33
important on the commitment going forward,
02:36
on what is needed to be successful at the highest
02:41
level, there was never any question from them
02:45
on the commitment for us, me, the staff, NIL, the players,
02:52
the resources, the Gossett Center.
02:55
I saw that this morning with a hard hat on.
02:57
Like, I don't know how many of those
02:59
will be available in August that's going
03:01
to be the best in the country.
03:03
So I'm not trying to be argumentative on anything,
03:07
but I'm at peace with all of it.
03:10
OK, well, one guy said they're cheap as F,
03:13
and the other guy says it's the greatest situation I've ever
03:16
seen in my life, and we got a new arena.
03:18
I'll give him this.
03:19
He's got a new arena.
03:21
And I'll give him this.
03:23
He can coach.
03:24
I'll also give him this.
03:25
This guy moves around like a United van lines.
03:29
Like him in six years at College Park,
03:34
he'll be gone in three years.
03:36
Four years max, he'll be gone again.
03:38
All he does is change jobs.
03:40
This guy has changed jobs five times.
03:44
I mean, honestly, he's from Texas, and he walked on them.
03:51
And they got more money than God down there at College Station
03:54
to go to Maryland.
03:56
And I got to tell you, look, I think Maryland's
04:00
pretty decent in basketball.
04:01
I'll give him that.
04:02
I think they are.
04:03
I really do.
04:05
But nothing else.
04:08
I mean, it's not that attractive.
04:10
Are you kidding me?
04:12
I mean, I could talk about seven programs in the Big 10
04:16
that are more attractive, at least.
04:18
When I got 14 teams, half of the conference
04:21
is better than Maryland in terms of, like,
04:23
let's just get real here.
04:24
Like, what, you're going to tell me Maryland's better
04:26
than Michigan, coaching at Ann Arbor?
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