After wobbling at first, he has steadied Maryland in a tough P5 conference. Team overachieved this year and is a four seed. Had a very very good class this year; he knows the Big East and apparently pay for play. Despite naysayers, he is a top 20 coach in the country, and the top ten or twelve are not going anywhere.
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Simply needs to fix that 2-6 NCAAT record and never getting out of the 2nd Round to be considered so high IMO.
There are countless examples of guys who “finally” breakthrough in postseason play. He will, he’s a good coach and at a program with resources to do so.
There are countless examples of guys who “finally” breakthrough in postseason play. He will, he’s a good coach and at a program with resources to do so.
Willard is an absolute master getting athletic directors to give him extensions he has not quite earned. There was no chance he was leaving for Nova lol.
Interesting name:
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UCLA is gearing up for what it is hoping to be a long NCAA Tournament run. Of course, whenever college basketball reaches this point of the year, while most of
Willard to Villanova seems to be the hot story tonight between Trilly Donovan and folks who seem to be pretty dialed in on the Villanova & MD message boards 😳
Why not? The path to success is much easier at Villanova and the 10 team Big East where only a few have legit NIL chests than it is in the 18? Team Big Ten with a whole bunch of schools with truly endless pockets.
Will see how Maryland looks on Friday. Will he looked checked out? Could history repeat, does he endorse Tony Skinn to take Maryland job on his way out?
Not playing in an NCAA tournament game in 3 years and the year we just had, makes having a coach looked checked out in the NCAA tournament to be a giant step in the right direction.
Like Fishjam said the travel can’t be enjoyable and if the money and NIL are comparable plus out of the big state schools?
This guy gives nice chunk of money to their program so decent source but don’t know who is telling him this. With all the other info it’s clear this is serious
I’m not doubting the source of validity. I’m just really surprised is all with the amount of money involved.
I also have to think if Maryland has any sort of run, they’re going to counter a Nova offer with a substantial amount of money.
But maybe that’s Willard’s angle with showing interest in Nova.
Was hoping Nova would screw this up, but that's one more team that climbing over just became more of a challenge. Not sure many conferences will have tree like Sha who coached under Willard who coached under Pitino.
