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You have to let this go. We would be a in a difficult place with Willard if he were here. Fact. Money talks.
KW just barely beat a double digit seed to get to the sweet 16 with a team consisting of a McD AA, 3 juniors and one of the best seniors in college.
You think SHU could afford one of those players this past year?
Your agenda man….
I never trust someone that says “I’m not gonna lie” and “to be honest with you”. He says it over and over.Q. I know you mentioned you want these moments to be about the players, but for you getting to your first second weekend as a coach what's that feeling like?
KEVIN WILLARD: Yeah, I mean, it's nice. I'm not going to lie. I would much rather be coaching than being back home. I wish my first weekend would have been at Seton Hall, to be honest with you. Seton Hall was really good to me and I thought we had some chances. It's hard, to be honest with you. I know it's always been on my back and it's always been a stigma, but I knew I had confidence in myself that eventually if you keep getting to this tournament, which my teams keep getting to this tournament, that I was eventually going to knock the door down.
I wish I would have done it at Seton Hall, to be honest with you, first. It's a place I loved and still love and they were so good to me. I wish I would have been able to do it there. But I'm glad that -- this is only our second Sweet 16 in 23 years here, so I'm just as happy that it happened at Maryland.
WHAT THEY SAID: Maryland Press Conference After Win Over Colorado State - University of Maryland Athletics
Check out what the Terps had to say after the buzzer-beater win over Colorado State to advance to the Sweet 16.umterps.com
Buddy I said “were.” And my post had absolutely zilch to do with Sha.
Your reading comprehension man…
Not reading comprehension. Saying we were in a good place is VERY different than saying we were in a good place with Willard.
You need some brushing up on the English language
We were 7-25 this year, we need something relevant to talk about.
Understand. I was partly kidding. Sad that Seton has not giving us much to talk about except losses, scandals and players leaving. Hoping we get some good news on players coming in and looking forward to better year in 2025/26.
How can you root against this guy? It is probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said about SHU (lol). As SHUHoopsFAN said, it was probably the 2nd best run of basketball we ever had. We were really good. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for us in the tournament, but we probably had 3 teams that could have made the Final Four (if we had better luck). Outside of the early 90s for me, it was the most enjoyable SHU basketball i have seen. We were never overmatched by anyone, and the home games were awesome environment.Q. I know you mentioned you want these moments to be about the players, but for you getting to your first second weekend as a coach what's that feeling like?
KEVIN WILLARD: Yeah, I mean, it's nice. I'm not going to lie. I would much rather be coaching than being back home. I wish my first weekend would have been at Seton Hall, to be honest with you. Seton Hall was really good to me and I thought we had some chances. It's hard, to be honest with you. I know it's always been on my back and it's always been a stigma, but I knew I had confidence in myself that eventually if you keep getting to this tournament, which my teams keep getting to this tournament, that I was eventually going to knock the door down.
I wish I would have done it at Seton Hall, to be honest with you, first. It's a place I loved and still love and they were so good to me. I wish I would have been able to do it there. But I'm glad that -- this is only our second Sweet 16 in 23 years here, so I'm just as happy that it happened at Maryland.
WHAT THEY SAID: Maryland Press Conference After Win Over Colorado State - University of Maryland Athletics
Check out what the Terps had to say after the buzzer-beater win over Colorado State to advance to the Sweet 16.
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No one will ever accuse Kevin of being too smooth in front of the Cameras 😂
I’d be curious to hear how the Villanova fanbase feels about a Willard hire.
2013 Fuquan steal and 3 for the win
2014 Gibbs at the buzzer
2015 Took them down in December
2016 Big East Championship.
2017 Played them tight but Josh Hart rebound was the killer
2018 No good games for the pirates vs Nova
2019 Powell almost got them in the finals
2020 Took care of them at Nova
Willard never really had a much better team than Wright in any of those years and continually gave Wright as much of a problem as anyone. Gotta believe the Nova base has a lot of positive thoughts on Willard. They saw some of his better moments vs their team.
In 2018, we were down 1 with 8 seconds to go at home with KC going to line for 2 shots. He was 8-8 at the line at that point. We ended up losing by 1 in OT. In addition, Jay Wright mentioned after winning National Championship that after he beat SHU, he knew they could win the National Championship even if they had an off shooting night.
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You're absolutely right. I'm mixing up 2017 and 2018 in my head when Nova put on a clinic at the Rock and I left with 12 minutes to go.
No one other than a few dozen people on this board will view it that way. He had a good, not great, stay which had some good memories, but ran its course. What’s to be unhappy about?
As Nick Lowe said, Time Wounds All Heals.
Well he refused to play SPU once Sha went there. Now he’ll have no choice
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ASAP Sports Transcripts - Basketball - 2025 - NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: REGIONAL SEMIFINAL - MARYLAND VS FLORIDA - March 26 - Kevin Willard
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Full off day press room transcript
Why? He did a good job for us. We also did a good job for him allowing him time to figure things out. He’s got 2 banners hanging in The Rock, made us relevant. He’s been gone 3 years. He should be applauded. But he now coaches a rival so we need to beat him.
This isn’t Cooley to Georgetown.
Because there are people who think he underperformed here. Literally has the second best run here in 70 years and people see it as a subpar performance. More proof people find the negative in everything. Amazes me people were going nuts about an NIT run but find subpar in NCAA tournament appearances. Thats how much they missed the good he did here.
If he does come back this conference with 2 Pitinos, McDermott, Smart, Hurkey and Willard is going to be tough for an underfunded team to crack the top half of the conference. Sha’s got his work cut out for him.
Can’t believe this guy is doing this again
Its the March tournament results...they were not good enough and big east tournament runs are overrated
How has Sha performed in the tournament since becoming SHU’s head coach? Both NCAAT and BET, since BET runs are overrated of course.
LOL! Then tell me why coaches, players and fans at every school value them so highly?
Willard did a good job overall at Seton Hall.
Willard will be a good coach for Villanova.
Willard is a slimeball for the way he handles himself.
Willard will be a good coach for Villanova.
Willard is a slimeball for the way he handles himself.
I may have missed it on the Bball Performance center tour yesterday, but a little surprised there wasn’t more of a prominent call out of Willard on any of the walls with Player/Coach accomplishments. He is our all time Wins leader as a Head Coach; correct?
It’s just so ironic he may end up coaching Nova. Who’d a thunk that 3 to 5 years ago?
It’s just so ironic he may end up coaching Nova. Who’d a thunk that 3 to 5 years ago?
