Story By: Erin Zollars
Photos By: Sol Tucker
College Park, MD–
There is no doubt that is has been a roller coaster ride the last few weeks in the Maryland Men’s basketball program. A ride to the Sweet 16 with a coach that said ” I don’t know what I am doing, then saying goodbye to College Park just few days later. Lets’ face it Willard… your agent and you knew what was going on.
As a new day dawns on the program and tomorrow the Terps will formally introduce Buzz Williams as the new head coach of the Terps program, what can he do without an Athletic Director and more several faces that appeared on this Sweet 16 team?
Williams who has a track record of winning game at the age of 52 perhaps can bring that winning tradition, that let’s put it this way has been missing from College Park since Gary Williams. No more fill ins, no more of rent a coach for a few seasons and no more athletic directors that don’t really see the big picture of basketball in the Big Ten Conference.
Williams, has a career 373-228 record (.621), including stops at New Orleans, Marquette, Virginia Tech and Texas A&M. Between 2010 and 2013, he led Marquette to two Sweet 16s and an Elite Eight before moving on to Virginia Tech, where he reached the NCAA Tournament in three of five years and made the Sweet 16 in 2019.
Can Williams repeat what he did in his home state with A&M under the current NIL picture? Only time will tell and let’s put it this way, Terp doners are done with the let’s see what happens with 2 million dollars. Either reallocate some of that money from a football program that is just about as good as it will get in this conference or go find some additional funding to take this program to the next level and make it happen now… before that Terp basketball legacy fades out of the minds of fans.
