The Entire Kevin Willard Situation Sucks And Everyone Is To Blame: A Full Breakdown

It all started last week when Kevin Willard was asked about his future at Maryland. He gave a pretty honest answer, or so it seemed at the time. He talked about how the AD was leaving for SMU and how the basketball program, in order to compete, needed more NIL money and resources from the university. Both pretty fair points, he made. If a coach wants to stick around and compete on a national level, they should be given money and the support needed from the university to make it happen. People applauded Willard for being so open and candid about the situation. As someone who is disgusted by the state of the Maryland athletic department, I thought the points he made were fair.

What went over my head, and a lot of people's heads however, was the timing and the reason he was saying all of that in public: It appears he was negotiating with Villanova to become their next head coach, and needed some cop-out reasons to leave. So he publicly trashed Maryland so he could take the Nova job while still in the tournament at Maryland. That my friends, is what we call a snake. 

And the kicker- apparently the university agreed to give him what he wanted- the money, the NIL shit, whatever. They said ok you're right, we'll give you what you want. And he still didn't sign. Because he wants to leave. While in the Sweet 16. Snake.

Now, all this is rumors and people putting pieces together. Two days ago I thought there was a chance it was all overblown and we were overreacting. Last night I 180'd and realized we'd all been played. There's a reason Willard trashed Maryland- he wanted it public he was unhappy and they weren't giving him the money needed to succeed, so he could lean on that as his reason for leaving. There's a reason Nova hasn't hired anyone to be their coach yet, they are waiting for Willard. And then this rumor appeared last night, that he skipped the team dinner:

Nobody knows how much of anything is true. But there is a lot of smoke and fire right now. 

And let me say this- I don't think he's wrong about the state of Maryland athletics. The football program is a disgrace. We left the ACC to become a Big 10 football school and it's been the biggest failure of all time. Coach Locksley is a TERRIBLE football coach. He can recruit and that's about it. So it must suck to be the head coach of the basketball team at a once-proud basketball school and watch the football team get all the money and absolutely suck year after year after year. And if you're one of those weirdo Locksley riders who say shit like "but we won a bowl game!", have a hard look in the mirror. We get wins over Southern Illinois Tech and then lose every conference game. Locks is a bad coach, everyone knows it. He knows it. How anyone defends a coach 16-40 in B1G play is beyond me.

What really sucks is if you're my age and grew up in Maryland and went to Maryland you have all these great memories of Maryland basketball. And all we've wanted is for the program to be nationally relevant and awesome again. And finally it looked like we were on the way to that, and THIS happens. It sucks. And that's why if Willard leaves he'll be the biggest villain to ever step foot on that campus. 

So yeah, big game tonight vs Florida. Unreal this is all happening on the day of the biggest game in a decade. What a mess. Go Terps.

PS: A very funny part of all the drama is yesterday they announced Kermit the fucking Frog is speaking at commencement. Your college gets a former president or the CEO of Apple, we get a talking frog. Burn it all to the ground.

Here's a full video breakdown of it all: