Former Maryland men’s basketball coach Kevin Willard says “it’s time for everyone to move on” after him leaving for Villanova angered fans.

“All I’m going to say is that Maryland just got a great coach in Buzz [Williams],” Willard said at the same time Williams was being introduced at a live press conference on campus. “I’m really happy for them, and I’m super excited to be in a great basketball conference here [in the Big East]. And I just think it’s time that everyone moved on.”

When Kevin Willard left Maryland, the worry was that he was going to take some Terrapins with him. So far, nobody has followed Willard to the 'Cats, but Maryland has lost almost its entire roster to this point to either graduation or the transfer portal.

Kevin Willard ’s departure from Maryland is not going over very well in some quarters. Certainly not with Maryland alum Scott Van Pelt of ESPN. “Maybe you don’t take a giant sh-t on the front steps of the house you’ve lived in for the last three years,

New Villanova basketball coach Kevin Willard had a rough exit from Maryland, as it became apparent to many before the Terrapins were eliminated in the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament that he would be leaving the program.

One well-known Maryland alumnus said he understood why now-former men’s basketball coach Kevin Willard left the program but still slammed the way he exited College Park.