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me is kind of everything that is
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wrong with how we view the college
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coaches and the game in general here's
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what I mean is he a great coach no is he
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a good coach eh is he a valuable coach
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obviously you had two good basketball
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programs trying to to score him
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maryland's trying to keep him villainova
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is trying to to woo him away so you know
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what you're only as valuable as your
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options he had two good options he was
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able to drive up the price and
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ultimately jump to the Wildcats program
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he gets to go to a program where it's a
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basketball first in some ways basketball
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only program you're not splitting
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finances resources and attention with
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the football program you get to go into
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a basketball only conference in the Big
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East you're back there you've coached
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the Northeast you've recruited the
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Northeast when you were at Satan Hall i
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understand why that's a fit and it's a
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place where you've won two national
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championships as a program the last
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decade plus you know what hey hard to
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argue that's not a really good job and
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for whatever your personal beliefs are
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if you're Kevin Willard maybe that's the
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better job what is ugly about this is
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him using his public platform to
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negotiate his own contract you know when
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you hear college basketball coaches or
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college football coaches espouse what
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their importance is it's always about
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making sure the kids are ready for their
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postcolgate life and for some that's
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basketball john Caliperry famously I
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want to make sure your family is set up
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for life i'm all about your family i'm
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changing your family's financial future
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right you have a guy like Fran Brown at
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Syracuse now touting all of my guys are
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taking classes in financial management
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very smart play by coach Brown very
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smart but this is about setting your
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guys up after sports is over it's all
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about making them better men better
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human beings better citizens right this
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has been what all these coaches have
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bang the drum on for years and Kevin
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Willard took an opportunity that was
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about the players in there and about the
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kids or the student athletes or however
2:18
you want to define them and he took it
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and flipped it and made it about him
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this is about me in a media availability
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before his team took the floor Kevin
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Willard decided "I'm going to make this
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about my situation and my AD has taken
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the SMU job i don't have the right
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support i couldn't keep my kids
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overnight in New York City." Blah blah
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blah do you think your players going
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into the in NCAA tournament are at that
2:53
moment worried about what didn't happen
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in December to say an extra ye an extra
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night in Manhattan because you played at
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the Barlay Center for a couple of nights
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do you really think that's what's on
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their mind of course not it's on your
3:06
mind it's on your mind do you think they
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have any sense that the AD is taking the
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SMU job of course not that's about you
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that's your job and so all these guys
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including Willard who talk about the
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kids how proud they are of the kids it's
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all about the kids they bought in they
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bought in they bought in it's about team
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not individual right this is what they
3:27
incessantly took an opportunity from his
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and at another distance from the fans
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that support him and have paid his
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salary from their own funds their own
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boosters etc at least in some ways
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support of the program he wants he wants
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a packed house at Xfinity Center he
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wants a home court advantage he wants to
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make sure other Big 10 schools come in
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here and they know where it's at he took
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fans and he took players and he dragged
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situation his situation how selfish can
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you be and then to spin it forward going
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asked about "Well why'd you use that
4:12
platform last week to talk about your
4:14
situation can you just talk about what
4:15
your reasoning was?" ignored the
4:17
question and merely went on to say "Well
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it's going to be really hard to guard
4:21
Walker florida Gators are really good
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team i'm just you know," as though the
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question didn't exist how immature how
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unprofessional how selfish you took a
4:32
moment that was about kids and about the
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program about the history of the program
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you flipped it on yourself and then when
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faced with a question about yourself
4:41
ignored it he ultimately takes the
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Villanova job i'm sure there's plenty of
4:45
Maryland fans saying "Good riddens let
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the door hit you on the way out we don't
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need you." But Willard typified these
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last two weeks of the worst the worst of
4:57
this thing that every coach is gonna
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belly ache about the transfer portal
5:03
it's going to belly ache about all these
5:04
options that the players have that now
5:06
they have to worry about recruiting kids
5:08
and keeping kids on campus and that kids
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now are in this disease of me as Pat
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Riley would say all these kids are just
5:16
about themselves their own situation
5:18
it's so hard to get them on the same
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team and Kevin Willer did exactly that
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he made it about him the entire time so
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badly that Maryland fans were booing him
5:33
on the team's way to the arena imagine
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souring an entire fan base's experience
5:40
of a wonderful trip to the tournament
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and into the Sweet 16 because you
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decided to make it about you
5:48
who cares what coaches do because hey no
5:51
one's holding it against them you can
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take other jobs you can make more money
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that's been happening for decades it's
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not going to stop happening but talk
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about a complete hypocrite kevin Willard
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good luck at Villanovavva i think most
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of us are rooting against you
