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00:00Like, let me just say this to you, uh, you know, Willard is no Jay, right.
00:05And my buddy played at Villanova and I play ball with this guy four or five days a week.
00:11And he said to me today when I was balling that, uh, kids don't want to go there anymore.
00:17It's a city school.
00:18It's, you know, it's intense there.
00:20It's, it can be dangerous there.
00:24It's not, you know, it's certainly not playing at Fordham in the Bronx.
00:29But it's, it's, you know, the middle of Philly and they have one star player and no one even
00:35knows him and they don't get the recruits that they used to get when Jay Wright was
00:41there and win national championships and guys like Brunson and it goes on and on.
00:47Don't get me started.
00:48They haven't had players like that since then.
00:51And I don't believe that guy can get them there.
00:54And neither does this guy.
00:55They're like, kids don't want to play in the inner city of Philadelphia.
00:58They just don't.
00:59They want to go to the big 10, to the sec.
01:02They want to go South.
01:03I know hundreds of kids from New York city that want to go South so fast.
01:11Make your head spin, including my daughter.
01:14Like look at my son, he went to California, so they don't want to play in this inner city
01:21in the hood.
01:22They don't.
01:23And that's just all there is to it.
01:25So good luck, Kevin.
01:26First of all, you're not that good of a coach to begin with.
01:28I want to hear him.
01:29I want to hear him.
01:30We already knew he was leaving.
01:31Well, look, I was a little up in the air with it maybe yesterday or the day before.
01:35I'm not up in the air with it anymore.
01:37After listening to him last night, I think he's definitely leaving and he has nobody
01:41to blame for how out of control this got than himself.
01:45He's the one that started all this last week by talking about the school.
01:48All right.
01:49He's the one who did all that.
01:50So whatever happens to him is on his own accord.
01:53Here's Kevin Willard.
01:54So I have not even, no, I don't know what I'm doing, I'll just be honest with you.
01:59I haven't talked to my agent, I haven't talked to my wife.
02:04I made a promise to this team that I was going to just focus on this team and that's all
02:10I've done.
02:11So I haven't talked to anybody.
02:14Right now, my biggest concerns in life right now, you know, I don't know who my boss is
02:19going to be.
02:20The guy that brought me here, who I really liked and appreciative of him bringing me
02:26to College Park, is not here anymore.
02:29And I don't know who we're going to hire.
02:30And that's, as in today's day and age, that worries me a little bit, just to be, I'm just
02:36being honest.
02:38My honesty got me in trouble, might as well keep getting me in trouble.
02:43So this is going to be a family decision.
02:46This is, I love College Park, I love Maryland, you know, but there's, when you're at this
02:55point in your career and you're looking at things, I have to take everything into consideration
03:00about what's going, moving forward.
03:02But I have not even talked to anybody, so I don't know what I'm doing.
03:05I don't believe that.
03:06I believe he's talked to Villanova on the phone for certain, and I wouldn't be surprised
03:11at all if he had dinner with somebody at a, you know, hidden Italian restaurant.
03:17All I know is, I think, you know, be careful what you wish for.
03:21Like be careful what you wish for.
03:23He's got a really good thing going.
03:25He's complaining about the monies, you know, that they're spending on NIL and worrying
03:30about Loxley and football and all the rest.
03:33But he is in College Park in the Big Ten, and he's got a winner.
03:38He's already got a winner built.
03:40And I mean, kids want to go there.
03:43It is a great school.
03:45Not only that, it's a party school.
03:47Kids want to go to Maryland.
03:48I know kids that go there, and it is A, fun place, B, expensive.
03:53It's no joke.
03:55And Villanova's a city school.
03:58It's a city school.
04:00You have to be tough as leather to go to city schools, inner city schools.
04:06Trust me.
04:07Listen, you think candy asses are going to Temple and Villanova?
04:11And listen, I know the Ivy League kids at Penn, but believe me, you know what they do?
04:16They run to the Uber.
04:17They don't walk, they run.