I've always thought KW would make a better G-League coach than college coach.
Was Kevin Willard always like this?
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Patriot League. Preferably a school like Lehigh with unfettered access to Saucon Valley Country Club
Ah biggest game of the year and the longest thread revolves around Willard and references to PJ.
Come on yall, beat Nova!
Come on yall, beat Nova!
Wouldn’t surprise me if this Maryland dude is actually an SHU troll.
Wouldn't surprise me at all, lots of room left on the Onward Setonia campaign for trolls and fans. Willard haters should want to get all over giving $$$'s.
Something that’s never really been pointed out about the guy:
Every coach needs a job at some point where they had to drive the team van and learn things from the ground floor.
Wasn't Willard something like a video tape editor/ gofer for the Celtics under Pitno? Maybe not exactly driving the van, but no being born with a silver spoon.
Willard and frank vogel were the video guys in Boston...one could argue that pitino personal relationship with ralph gave willard that chance
But-- But-- But.... "More adjustments than a chiropractor"!
Not at all. Posting under the same user name I have on 247. There's just no Seton Hall forum over there.
I did something worse than pose as a SHU troll. I paid $10 to see if I could get you guys to trash Kevin Willard to make me feel better for a day.
And I have to say you guys are delivering! I almost forgot we're in 13th place in the league we were picked 3rd in the preseason.
FWIW, I have been rooting hard for Seton Hall all year.
Not because I'm doing that pathetic "OPPOSING FAN COMING IN PEACE, PLZ LIKE ME" bit. The people who defended the Willard hire made SHU seem like it was in a third world country and that it was impossible to win there. Poor Kev was dodging mortars on the way to his practice dungeon every day, so naturally he's going to level up at Maryland.
Watching Holloway get SHU right back into the tournament in Year 2 with only one Willard holdover while Maryland misses the NIT has been quite vindicating.
Not because I'm doing that pathetic "OPPOSING FAN COMING IN PEACE, PLZ LIKE ME" bit. The people who defended the Willard hire made SHU seem like it was in a third world country and that it was impossible to win there. Poor Kev was dodging mortars on the way to his practice dungeon every day, so naturally he's going to level up at Maryland.
Watching Holloway get SHU right back into the tournament in Year 2 with only one Willard holdover while Maryland misses the NIT has been quite vindicating.
Will not pay to go on their board but I am curious about the amount of posters there are bashing Willard or giving him a pass and wait till next year routine .
You heard it here first….
One more year of KW. He’ll be fired after next season and replaced by Kim English- a Maryland native with huge upside if he can manage success in year 2 at PC
To be perfectly honest, this is the reason I've taken a little cheap enjoyment out of seeing him faceplant so far in College Park. I've got nothing against Maryland and have historically rooted for you guys in games that have nothing to do with Seton Hall.
To me, hearing the narrative about about how Seton Hall is such an impossible job and how Kevin Willard bravely wrung so much more out of the program than a mere mortal might made me want to see him fail at Maryland - but only because it helps dispel the notion behind that Seton Hall narrative. Seton Hall is not an easy job or a plug-and-play place where you'll just win. We do not have bottomless resources - that's not news. But we can always sell the Big East, plus we're located in a region that produces plenty of talent. Good coaches have always enjoyed some level of success here when we've hired them, and some have taken us further than Willard did, which makes that narrative tough to take.
And he did do a good job here. Not great, but very good, even if he plateaued years ago. So for that, I'm grateful enough. He probably should be doing better with this current Maryland team than he is (13th place when picked for 3rd is not great), but historically, he's not been that bad and is bound to level out some. But based on his record, there's no reason to expect greatness. It's got enough years on it to show pretty well what he is. I wonder if he'll get as many years to figure it out there as he got here.
Really, you took time to write this. Another Willard Dysfunction Syndrome.
It took two, maybe three minutes. About the amount of time he spent paying his dues. Much longer than it takes his mentor to ... well, never mind.
New NIL idea........... charge $100 a word for fans to take potshots at Willard. Would be best fundraiser we've ever had. We just can't resist.
Any young coach would dream of a job with Boston Celtics.
The van driving job at a D3 or even JUCO not all implies paying your dues at a low level, but gaining valuable leadership experience. Willard skipped that part as a low level helper with the Celtics.
you can read their own boards. its eerie how similar it is.
Dude I get it but you and all of us here really have no idea how Willard paid his dues or did not. You make it sound like Willard is Steve Belichick who never coached any place before his father's team and has mostly a lacrosse background. Now he is DC for the CFP runner up. Maybe Willard did drive tapes to the team and got or
witnessed "leadership" experience at a low level.
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