Should Gary Williams be Fired?

What a novel idea.....let's discuss whether Gary Williams should be fired....AGAIN!  We beat this dead horse to death in the thread "You cannot defend Gary Williams".  Did you think you were bringing something new to the table with this thread?  Maybe you should take a second and do some reading.....there are 4 pages of insight.

As for ACCFan (what a misnomer)....if Maryland has 0 talent.....I guess North Carolina has -2 talent....or 2 points less.  I hope you're still not bitter about the loss in Chapel Hill.  It must hurt to know that your team lost to a team with such little talent......again.

I agree with Memphis...we did this already!

The program needs to stabilize and improve but, firing Williams now is not going solve anything.

Williams brought in some good looking talent and with another year or two Md will be capable of returning to the stature we all expect.

I don't agree however, with those who say Williams is the coach for life or as long as he wants. He must produce...too many revenue issues for Md to keep missing the tournament.

I wasn't seasoned enough to know better back then...but, I'll bet Wade was about all they could get after the Len Bias scandal.

I think Maryland could get whatever kind of coach they wanted now.

Go Terps  

With regards to Mr. Wade, keep in mind that things fell apart quickly (with much finger-pointing) with little time to find a new coach.  And he was offered the position with all knowing that he had no material college b-ball coaching experience.

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But one should be a bit careful about being smug.  With no material college basketball experience Bob W. still got UMD to the second round of the NCAA Tourn. in 1 of his 3 seasons.  And think of the recruiting issues and learning curve that faced him.  The Terps have only made it to the second round of the NCAA Tourn. 1 of the last 4 seasons and have performed very poorly, during this period, when compared to the 17 years before Bob W arrived.

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Things are a bit different now and there is no immediacy or bad stigma.  So many more coaching options exist including -- do nothing/no change – or even change assistant coaches.  And recent coaching changes at Indiana U and Ok St U indicate several top coaching candidates are not as mobile as many thought.

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We really haven’t gotten much new information since the end of the season so I doubt if many have, or will soon, change(d) their position on the topic.