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Gary Williams (BTN analyst, fmr. Ohio State, Maryland HC)

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I'm sure he is still a very good coach. Kind of tough being dumped on by your alma mater. If he is actually fired and still wants to coach I would think someone out there would hire him. :)
 
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JCOSU86;1393961; said:
It was his alma mater, I had no problem with it.
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Exactly. I didn't like losing him but I understood it. Had it not been, however, I would've been a bit ticked.
 
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Jake;1394292; said:
Exactly. I didn't like losing him but I understood it. Had it not been, however, I would've been a bit ticked.
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There was also plenty of talk going on around Ohio State that he enjoyed some of the younger coeds at the University. Saying that, I had no problems with him leaving for his alma mater because he had brought basketball back to Ohio State after some down years under Eldon.
 
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OHSportsFan9;1413935; said:
Maryland Upsets #3 North Carolina 88-85 @ College Park.
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Game was absolutely nuts. Greatest sporting event I've ever attended. The Comcast Center went absolutely nuts.
 
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LitlBuck;1394765; said:
There was also plenty of talk going on around Ohio State that he enjoyed some of the younger coeds at the University.
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I was a student at OSU then and I never heard that at all. Must've been hanging with the wrong crowd.
 
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Terps men's basketball coach Gary Williams meets academic, athletic goals, gets another year

By meeting academic and athletic goals spelled out in his contract, Gary Williams has earned another year as Maryland men's basketball coach. Williams, about to enter his 21st season leading his alma mater, is now signed until June 30, 2013. Williams' contract, amended a number of times, has been said by the university to be worth more than $2 million per year if he meets all academic and athletic incentives.

Entire article: Terps men's basketball coach Gary Williams meets academic, athletic goals, gets another year -- baltimoresun.com
 
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Maryland's Gary Williams motivated by past, focused on future
Longtime Terps basketball coach looks back on career as he prepares for induction into 'Hall of Legends'
September 29, 2010|By Jeff Barker, The Baltimore sun

COLLEGE PARK ? ? On the walls of his office hang poster-sized magazine covers and other reminders of Final Fours and four decades of basketball victories. But Gary Williams ? as driven and intense as ever ? still sometimes wears the haunted look of a man who coaches a sport in which an NCAA tournament game can be lost on a buzzer beater because an opposing player ducked.

At 65, the Maryland coach ? who is being inducted Thursday night into the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards' "Hall of Legends" ? has a memory full of the sort of detailed basketball information that all but coaches and fantasy leaguers might consider arcane. He can name, in order, the four players ? including Kevin Garnett ? that former Maryland star Joe Smith was selected ahead of in the 1995 NBA draft. He can tell you the spot on the floor where Steve Blake missed a buzzer-beating, 3-pointer in the 2003 NCAA tournament.

It says something about Williams ? perhaps about all such passionate coaches ? that he best remembers the shots that cost him games. Those recollections remain with him like hundreds of tiny scars. They torture him, frustrate him ? and perhaps motivate him.
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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...illiams-sports-legends-museum-johnny-holliday
 
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Is he saying that he actually regreats leaving Ohio State for the Maryland job?

Re: "I think he's come in and he's done a good job," Williams said. "It's a tough job being an athletic director. We had the same athletic director for 15 years, and whatever was there was there. And when you come in, any job you take -- I've had like four or five different head coaching jobs -- you think you know the job going in. When I came to Maryland, I had no idea the severity of the situation there when I took the job, or else I wouldn't have come.

Entire article: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2011/01/gary_williams_says_terps_must.html
 
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