Oats to Murland?

[StarRaider]

Williams leaves Aggies for Maryland hoops job

Buzz Williams has been hired as the new men's basketball coach at Maryland, ending his six-year stint at Texas A&M.

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taggies seem to be ... don't let the door hit your fatarse on the way out the door

 

[BowlBrother85]

Williams leaves Aggies for Maryland hoops job

Buzz Williams has been hired as the new men's basketball coach at Maryland, ending his six-year stint at Texas A&M.

www.espn.com

taggies seem to be ... don't let the door hit your fatarse on the way out the door

In the aftermath of Jimbo Fisher, they appear to be dug in on not overpaying anymore.

 

[dobre_shunka]

I had forgotten they also lost their AD after Jimbo was canned. This all could be fallout from Fisher's payout.

 

[sami]

Oats has too good of a thing going at Bama. Why go to that part of the country, to a school whose former coach just aired out the dirty laundry of the athletic program and there’s no athletics director?

I also love the irony of Maryland leaving the ACC for the greener pastures of the B1G, only to be a poverty, mostly irrelevant program since they joined.

Many of these schools with strong identities in their original conferences will pay the price for their greed as time goes on, if not sooner. Maryland went from a respected program in the ACC to a practically invisible also-ran in the Big 10 chasing football money while killing their bread and butter, the basketball program.

Stanford and Cal will regret their move as time goes on, and my bet is that USC, UCLA, and Washington will eventually as well. Oregon might thrive, as they have always seemed like more of a national program. Rutgers could be a rock solid G5 program.

 

[05_never_again]

For a place swimming in money it is weird that A&M keeps getting coaches poached.

Maryland is a good basketball job, but it’s not Duke or Kentucky.

With Schloss and Buzz, I think they were unique, one-off-situations. This isn't the first time Buzz has seemingly made a very curious, lateral-at-best move (went from a Marquette program that he had playing really well to a Virginia Tech program that was a mess several years ago). Maryland isn't a blue blood at all, but does have a more storied basketball history than A&M (A&M has never been beyond the Sweet 16).

Schloss got poached by another school swimming in money, who happened to be their fiercest rival.

 

[dobre_shunka]

Many of these schools with strong identities in their original conferences will pay the price for their greed as time goes on, if not sooner. Maryland went from a respected program in the ACC to a practically invisible also-ran in the Big 10 chasing football money while killing their bread and butter, the basketball program.

Stanford and Cal will regret their move as time goes on, and my bet is that USC, UCLA, and Washington will eventually as well. Oregon might thrive, as they have always seemed like more of a national program. Rutgers could be a rock solid G5 program.

A rich Big 10 also ran beats an officially second financial tier yet "respected" ACC program.

And with the ACC right now split between F$U/Clem$on and the rest, how long until UNC and other mid-level ACC schools demand more than the Wake Forests, SMUs, and the rest of the smaller ACC members?

The ACC cannot continue longterm with the current financial structure, infighting will eventually cause it to collapse.

 

[sami]

A rich Big 10 also ran beats an officially second financial tier yet "respected" ACC program.

And with the ACC right now split between F$U/Clem$on and the rest, how long until UNC and other mid-level ACC schools demand more than the Wake Forests, SMUs, and the rest of the smaller ACC members?

The ACC cannot continue longterm with the current financial structure, infighting will eventually cause it to collapse.

I wasn't debating the financial implications, although that really is all that matters in college sports anymore. USC and UCLA might be middling Big 10 schools and not ever style 'fits', but financially they obviously hit a grand slam making the move.