If you wanted to do the âcompare to the program water levelâ thing, Magpayo has the top 4 seasons by SRS in UC Riverside history, and the only other season he coached there comes in at #7 in school history. Now that is out of only 24 D1 seasons, but still.
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Man this whole process is a complete shitshow lol. Willard mismanaged this as much as humanely possible. how could Nova fans be excited about this dude coming in after this? bros gonna get a short leash there
So glad our search was low-key (at least externally) and straightforward. No unnecessary drama
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I would really like to see the powers to be at Villanova, a school that I generally like, show a little self respect.
Is Willard and all his crap considerably better that Chris Collins or Porter Moser.
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Perfect - timing will be good to come after that
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For the haters, some enjoyable quotes here:
Like, âthis guy complained about the same thing the last guy complained about, but that actually means we shouldnât pay attentionâ
Willard had issues with the Big Tenâs schedule and travel situations, which would only get worse when USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington officially joined the conference, but it didnât raise alarms early on the way maybe it should have. Many Maryland boosters and athletic department staffers were already used to dealing with similar complaints from Mark Turgeon, Willardâs predecessor, who frequently complained about the schoolâs decision to leave the basketball-fabled Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big Ten in 2014.
Your coach not having an accurate view (or misrepresenting it publicly) of how the program stacks up in funding seems bad? But also your collective head complaining about it too seems bad.
Willard had valid NIL complaints even if his claim that Maryland had the lowest NIL in the conference was wildly inaccurate. Maryland spent in the neighborhood of $3 million in NIL for this yearâs roster which would put it âin the lower part of the top half of the Big Ten,â according to Harry Geller, the founder of Maryland basketball collective Turtle NIL. Geller said Evans not being more heavily involved in trying to help Maryland basketballâs NIL situation deeply frustrated Willard, who was upset at the administrationâs inaction.
âIt was kind of crazy that the whole NIL for the basketball program fell on me and (former Nautica chairman) Harvey Sanders and a few others, all unpaid retired guys,â Geller told CBS Sports. âWhen Brian Ullmann became involved things got better, but we were way behind at that point.â
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Yeah, that is kinda crazy. I bet the next coach wonât like the travel situation either! But they donât really have a good solution here. Maybe they can hire 3 coaches. A Midwest coach, an east coast coach (home games + Rutgers), and a West Coast coach.
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The solution is to organize a critical mass of the coaches and ADs in the B1G to restructure the league scheduling to minimize travel, subdividing the league into regional divisions and focusing scheduling in that.
But agree in the short term that this is unavoidable on some level with the PAC 12 teams joining Midwest/East Coast Leagues. Good on the SEC for simply refusing to play that game.
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Yeah, good point. They expanded and still kept decent geographic cohesion.
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Now having read the whole article, I think the major issue is that Willard didnât like that MD wasnât more devoted to hoops. But football is king, and the money comes from football, and future realignment will be driven by football.
And Nova is apparently gonna pay ~$6 million in rev share compared to $4 mn or so for MD. Iâm still skeptical of those numbers, but we shall seeâŚ
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Random Twitter accounts saying Oats unhappy in Bama and he has shown interest in NBA or Maryland.
NBA maybe, but Maryland 
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Oats to NBA makes sense. Maryland makes 0 sense for him.
I donât believe it, but also good luck to the team that wonât pay for an extra night of hotels paying an $18m buyoutâ one that Alabama would absolutely make them pay. Not gonna negotiate down from that.
I think those are nonsense though, heâs got what he needs in Tuscaloosa, at least for another year or so.
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Gets to go back home to Wisconsin every other season/season depending on home and aways in conference? Get away from football school?
An away game in Wisconsin every other year is not possibly that big of a selling point.
Wasnât one of Willardâs big complaints Maryland being too in on football with rev share?
Alabama has one of the best ADs in the country vs going somewhere with no AD?
Itâs not like they wonât skirt the rules of the new rev share system, I donât think thatâs a concern for them.
And again⌠$18m buyout that theyâre not gonna let him out of.
I will personally book any Nate Oats to Maryland wager anyone wants to make.
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Before Oats came to Alabama, he spent almost two full decades between Detroit & Buffalo. Making $5 mil a year in T-town canât be that bad.
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It seems like Maryland needs to find a coach who WANTS to be there. There is history in that program and BW parkway - even if College Park itself sucks. Find someone who still believes in that and wants to rebuild it. Buzz is not the answer.
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