This may very well be Kevin Willard’s remaining sport as Maryland’s coach.
The questions on Willard’s future has hijacked the leadup to the Terrapins’ Candy 16 matchup with Florida on Thursday evening.
Willard has publicly griped about Maryland’s lack of NIL spending and prematurely revealed the information that Maryland’s AD, Damon Evans, was leaving the college for a similar job at SMU.
This all comes as Villanova’s head teaching put up ominously stays open after the firing of Kyle Neptune and Willard reportedly being their best choice.
Willard was provided a time period sheet for a brand new contract earlier than Choice Sunday.
“As of right now, I’m staying. Everything that my concerns have been about the job — and that was my whole point of the press conference — was that I want to make this program the best,” Willard stated on “The Kevin Sheehan Show,” based on 247Sports. “When you have an opportunity to do it, you have to take advantage of it.”
The “as of right now” portion of that response definitely didn’t assist ease any minds in Faculty Park, and it has invited additional questioning from the press.
At his availability on Wednesday, Willard deflected questions on his future and as a substitute broke down the workforce’s problem of going up towards Florida star guard Walter Clayton Jr.
Nonetheless, hypothesis is working rampant.
“As we have seen from Kevin Willard’s reaction in press conferences throughout the NCAA tournament, things at Maryland are extremely, extremely volatile right now…,” CBS Sports activities’ Jon Rothstein stated on Wednesday.
“Kevin Willard has aired a lot of these frustrations publicly throughout the NCAA tournament. But I have never seen a program go to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament and have all this uncertainty surrounding what’s going on with their head coach moving forward.”
Maryland has persevered via the drama, blowing out Grand Canyon and surviving Colorado State because of a Derik Queen buzzer-beater.
Willard, who beforehand coached at Iona and Seton Corridor, is in his third season with Maryland.
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Although Willard led Seton Corridor to the NCAA Match 5 occasions, that is the 49-year-old’s first journey to the Candy 16.
And it may very well be his final sport earlier than a return to the Large East.
