Talking CBB Coaching Changes: Willard to Nova, Buzz to Maryland

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00:00All right, I wanted to play these two coaches.

00:02They were both introduced yesterday for their new jobs.

00:05Here's the great Kevin Willard, who

00:07jumped ship from Maryland over to Villanova.

00:11Here he is talking about why he wanted to go to Villanova.

00:15And at the end of the day, he doesn't

00:17want to talk about how things went at Maryland anymore.

00:19Obviously, I think some of my comments during the NCAA

00:22tournament probably could have been

00:23a little bit less abrasive.

00:25But unfortunately, sometimes when

00:28my passion for my program, my passion for my players

00:31come out, I get a little excited.

00:34The only thing I'm going to say is normal fans just

00:39don't understand what went on.

00:42I had such a great team.

00:43I was so focused on my team.

00:45I was so focused on my players.

00:48Winning those games, hitting a buzzer

00:50beer against Colorado State, beating out West

00:53with my team for 12 days was such a great experience for me.

00:58We had so much fun out there.

01:00The timeline, no one knows it.

01:02No one understands it.

01:04I can't change that, and I'm not worried about that.

01:06All I'm going to say is that Maryland just

01:09got a great coach and buzz, and I'm really happy for them.

01:11And I'm super excited to be at a great basketball conference

01:14here, and I just think it's time that everyone move on.

01:18OK, so let me move on to this then, coach.

01:21Thanks so much for all your advice.

01:23This guy has been the one sweet 16.

01:26He is the most overrated basketball coach

01:29I've ever seen in my life that keeps getting big jobs.

01:32I mean, honest to God.

01:34Like, let's just stop with all this nonsense.

01:37And it's pretty obvious he's a backstabber.

01:41I mean, like, what more do you need to know to handle

01:43the team in Maryland?

01:44Like, who didn't he throw under the bus at Maryland?

01:47And then, like, he lied through his teeth the whole time.

01:52Like, so we know who he really is now full on.

01:55So enjoy him while you got him in there,

01:58and watch your wallets and cell phones.

02:03Watch your wallets and cell phones, indeed.

02:05So Buzz Williams was introduced at Maryland.

02:07Did he hear all of the things that Kevin Willard was

02:11saying last week about the program

02:13and how there needs to be more, that that gets done, et cetera?

02:16Buzz apparently knew nothing about that

02:19when he took the Maryland job.

02:20Liar.

02:21I think that that's not to speak ill

02:24towards Coach Willard or the team.

02:27I didn't hear all of it, nor do I think all of it's important.

02:31But relative to what I thought was

02:33important on the commitment going forward,

02:36on what is needed to be successful at the highest

02:40level, there was never any question from them

02:45on the commitment for us, me, the staff, NIL, the players,

02:52the resources, the Gossett Center.

02:54I saw that this morning with a hard hat on.

02:57Like, I don't know how many of those

02:59will be available in August.

03:01It's going to be the best in the country.

03:03So I'm not trying to be argumentative on anything,

03:07but I'm at peace with all of it.

03:10OK, well, one guy said they're cheap as F.

03:13And the other guy says it's the greatest situation

03:16I've ever seen in my life, and we got a new arena.

03:18I'll give him this.

03:19He's got a new arena.

03:21And I'll give him this.

03:22He can coach.

03:24I'll also give him this.

03:25This guy moves around like a United van lines.

03:29Like, him in six years at College Park,

03:34he'll be gone in three years.

03:36Four years max, he'll be gone again.

03:38All he does is change jobs.

03:40This guy has changed jobs five times.

03:43I mean, honestly, he's from Texas, and he walked on them.

03:50And they got more money than God down there

03:52in College Station to go to Maryland.

03:56And I got to tell you, look, I think

03:59Maryland's pretty decent in basketball.

04:01I'll give them that.

04:02I think they are.

04:03I really do.

04:05But nothing else.

04:08I mean, it's not that attractive.

04:10Are you kidding me?

04:12I mean, I could talk about seven programs in the Big Ten

04:15that are more attractive, at least.

04:18But I got 14 teams.

04:19Half of the conference is better than Maryland in terms of,

04:22like, let's just get real here.

04:24Like, what, you're going to tell me Maryland's better than

04:26Michigan, coaching at Ann Arbor, or at Michigan State,

04:32or at Indiana?

04:34Indiana's got more juice than Maryland in terms of basketball.

04:37They got five national championships.

04:41And he's going to have to basically start over,

04:43kind of like what Cal did at Arkansas last year,

04:45because half the team's in the portal already.

04:48And the other half are either don't have any more eligibility

04:52or the kid Queen's going to go to the draft.

04:53You know that.

04:54He's going to the NBA.

04:55Yeah, he's going to the NBA.

04:56So he's basically starting from the ground up.

05:00And now you could do that faster in college nowadays

05:03because of the portal.

05:03You can get a good team fairly quickly.

05:06But the guy who just left told me

05:08that they're not going to spend money.

05:11That's what the guy who just left pretty much just told you.

05:14So we'll see.

05:15And the guy that was running the program

05:17couldn't get out of there fast enough.

05:19His boss bolted.

05:20He's like, I'm out of here.

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