Turge left bc he wanted to be the big dog program on campus. They haven't made sweet 16 since 2016.

Maryland has no AD and there was complaints by Willard about the budget and commitment. I know our bball will always be second but we have been a perennial tourney team for most of the last 20 years.

Buzz is a Texas guy and his faith and postings might not go over as well in a left leaning area like Maryland. So why is Maryland a better job for Buzz..? I know he has to replace a full roster but with portal it's much easier now.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

After Gary Williams, Maryland isn't the same. Absent Buzz is bored or tired of Trev/fans/etc., I don't see the allure. Wish this was done weeks ago as several interesting coaches are now off the board.

Do they have Under Armor suit vests?

Buzz is weird. It may simply be nothing more than the eccentricities of a guy like him.

He left Marquette for Virginia Tech.

It's not about Maryland. He was/is throwing his name at all the openings apparently. He didn't want to come back, sounds like we weren't too interested in changing his mind.

Time for a mutual parting. It's gonna be tough to convinced a transfer for to come with a coach who's had a foot out the door all year and is doing everything he can to not be here.

See ya!

Maryland hasnt made the sweet 16 since 2025

It's not a better job. No AD and doesn't have the money. It's really wild. I think Buzz really wanted Xavier. Which is wild as well. Buzz left Marquette for all the reasons you don't want to go to Xavier. Not enough money bad tv deal a Big East without football draw. That's why Buzz bolted for a dead end ACC job.

Trev Albert is an issue. A fiscal hawk who coaches get tired of dealing with.

It lets Buzz reset his contract. Also how,does buzz come back now? Isn't the marriage with us over with now?

SEC is loaded with top notch coaches and teams.
Maybe the steep climb to the top is something he doesn't care to grind thru

Just speculating, thinking out loud….got no intel to back that up

it does make the wade Taylor jersey in the rafters event make a lot more sense.

not that he doesn't deserve it but as many said the timing seemed a bit odd. but if buzz knew he was leaving he was not going to chance wade taykor not getting his jersey in the rafters. and he wanted to be there and make it happen.

Dimond1968 said:

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Trev Albert is an issue. A fiscal hawk who coaches get tired of dealing with.

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Maybe so, but in this case Buzz is trying (or tried) to strong arm A&M into an extension even though his results don't justify it.

Maryland is a basketball school. Basketball coaches want to coach places where basketball is a priority. Basketball might even be 3rd fiddle to baseball here.

Maryland averaged higher attendance than the capacity of Reed Arena. We had empty seats for #1 Auburn at home.

Not saying I think it's a good fit or he wasn't well compensated here, but there's a reason that the coaches that have continued aspects of success at A&M get attention from other school and then leave.

HowdyTexasAggies said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Trev Albert is an issue. A fiscal hawk who coaches get tired of dealing with.

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Maybe so, but in this case Buzz is trying (or tried) to strong arm A&M into an extension even though his results don't justify it.

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This is correct. Buzz didn't like the answer he got earlier this year when he wanted an extension.

Buzz's comments on NIL are sing along his gestation with the school administration on making basketball successful. You can ignore what he says but that's got something to do with why we aren't winning.

We might be too squeaky clean to win…

Not necessarily disagreeing with you but Maryland has known issues right now within their athletic department which is why the current coach is leaving in the first place.

This is just Buzz' MO. Coach somewhere for 5-6 years then leave. Repeat.

Anyone who saw how the roster was constructed realizes he was out the door before this season started.

I'm probably one of the only ones on this board who lives in that part of the country. Basketball is #1 at UMD. They have a prolific lacrosse program, but outside of that, with revenue sharing and fan support, nothing rivals basketball for the Terps. I'm admittedly not a fan of old Aggie traditions. Having taken a class with Buzz, I can staunchly say that he is the exact same way. Buzz will get his media attention from being in the DMV while remaining relatively anonymous in a place where he's more likely to get to choose his admin.

Do they have better returning players?

Lance Uppercut said:

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Maryland is a basketball school. Basketball coaches want to coach places where basketball is a priority. Basketball might even be 3rd fiddle to baseball here.

Maryland averaged higher attendance than the capacity of Reed Arena. We had empty seats for #1 Auburn at home.

Not saying I think it's a good fit or he wasn't well compensated here, but there's a reason that the coaches that have continued aspects of success at A&M get attention from other school and then leave.

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Except the Maryland coach just bailed because he said they were not support MBB. Buzz is trying to get any job that resets his contract

Yeah, people need to stop thinking that this means anything about us or about Maryland. That job is better than ours but that has little to do with this situation.

This is about Buzz doing his Buzz thing. I think he'd basically take any job out there willing to pay him close to what we're paying him even if it's a job worse than ours.

I had heard there were feelers between him and Arizona State before they decided to run it back with Hurley one more time.

I think it's more that Maryland is different from A&M. Sounds like Buzz just can't avoid the feeling of needing to move.

You pretty much knew when Kirk Bohls made his "crazy prediction" that Buzz wouldn't be coaching here next year that he one foot already way out the door.

That wasn't Bohls throwing crap against the wall to see what would stick.

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Buzz is weird. It may simply be nothing more than the eccentricities of a guy like him.

He left Marquette for Virginia Tech.

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Why did he leave Marquette for Virginia Tech ?

It seems like if you wanted to be the top dog, you would stay at a bball school...

Also, I could see how Buzz would want to reset the clock on tenure. I don't see A&M extending him at this point, especially with missing the Sweet16, a complete rebuild next year, and with multiple years on his contract left.

He makes too much money at A&M based on results and I am not convinced that the game hasn't passed him by. The elimination of charges and all 5 positions shooting the 3, really has made it tough on Buzz style of defense.

I could see him taking one more job for 5 or so years, get his kids out of school and then retire to the speaking circuit...

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Lance Uppercut said:

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Maryland is a basketball school. Basketball coaches want to coach places where basketball is a priority. Basketball might even be 3rd fiddle to baseball here.

Maryland averaged higher attendance than the capacity of Reed Arena. We had empty seats for #1 Auburn at home.

Not saying I think it's a good fit or he wasn't well compensated here, but there's a reason that the coaches that have continued aspects of success at A&M get attention from other school and then leave.

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Except the Maryland coach just bailed because he said they were not support MBB. Buzz is trying to get any job that resets his contract

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...except their version of not supporting basketball is still better than our version of supporting it. Maryland is a step up from our basketball program. It's not the only reason he might be looking around, but I'm guessing it's a factor. The question in the OP is how are they better than A&M. The fact that their average attendance when they aren't supporting the team is larger than the capacity of our arena is pertinent.

Mike DeCourcy of Sporting News said he considers Maryland a top 15 job in college basketball.

Is A&M a top 40 job? I don't think it's top 30.

Lance Uppercut said:

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BQ_90 said:

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Lance Uppercut said:

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Maryland is a basketball school. Basketball coaches want to coach places where basketball is a priority. Basketball might even be 3rd fiddle to baseball here.

Maryland averaged higher attendance than the capacity of Reed Arena. We had empty seats for #1 Auburn at home.

Not saying I think it's a good fit or he wasn't well compensated here, but there's a reason that the coaches that have continued aspects of success at A&M get attention from other school and then leave.

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Except the Maryland coach just bailed because he said they were not support MBB. Buzz is trying to get any job that resets his contract

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...except their version of not supporting basketball is still better than our version of supporting it. Maryland is a step up from our basketball program. It's not the only reason he might be looking around, but I'm guessing it's a factor. The question in the OP is how are they better than A&M. The fact that their average attendance when they aren't supporting the team is larger than the capacity of our arena is pertinent.

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And they will expect results unlike us. Buzz was farming himself to,anyone and everyone that would get him a raise

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You pretty much knew when Kirk Bohls made his "crazy prediction" that Buzz wouldn't be coaching here next year that he one foot already way out the door.

That wasn't Bohls throwing crap against the wall to see what would stick.

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It wasn't crazy. I'm a nobody and I heard it six weeks ago.

BQ_90 said:

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Lance Uppercut said:

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BQ_90 said:

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Lance Uppercut said:

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Maryland is a basketball school. Basketball coaches want to coach places where basketball is a priority. Basketball might even be 3rd fiddle to baseball here.

Maryland averaged higher attendance than the capacity of Reed Arena. We had empty seats for #1 Auburn at home.

Not saying I think it's a good fit or he wasn't well compensated here, but there's a reason that the coaches that have continued aspects of success at A&M get attention from other school and then leave.

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Except the Maryland coach just bailed because he said they were not support MBB. Buzz is trying to get any job that resets his contract

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...except their version of not supporting basketball is still better than our version of supporting it. Maryland is a step up from our basketball program. It's not the only reason he might be looking around, but I'm guessing it's a factor. The question in the OP is how are they better than A&M. The fact that their average attendance when they aren't supporting the team is larger than the capacity of our arena is pertinent.

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And they will expect results unlike us. Buzz was farming himself to,anyone and everyone that would get him a raise

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Yeah, I don't think he cares. He'll get paid up front.

Coaches come here because of the hefty raise they receive. They leave because of the terrible culture here. Get rid of the good ol' boy network and the incompetent, arrogant, leaders that run A&M

I think it's hard to rank programs without factoring in who the current coach is. Like what is the Gonzaga job without Few, or the Auburn job without Pearl. Have they raised those programs to a new standard where they could hire a high level replacement?

But I think we're in a decent tier of jobs. We've shown we'll pay a lot, we don't have high expectations.

The biggest thing we have going for us If Buzz goes to Maryland is a proven track record of vaulting coaches to the next level. That would be three of our last four coaches getting hired by upper tier programs. We're not a place where coaches just come to die on their way up the ranks.

Nobody wants to be a stepping stone but that's better than being a graveyard. We just eventually need to keep one of these guys.

Maryland is technically better because it's the only sport they care about.

Aggie Dad 26 said:

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Coaches come here because of the hefty raise they receive. They leave because of the terrible culture here. Get rid of the good ol' boy network and the incompetent, arrogant, leaders that run A&M

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Buzz is just trying to avoid getting fired here like he would.

As stated in many threads....Trev is here (hired) for a reason, which is an issue (but he's following what he's been hired to do...fiscal resp to carry on covering Jimbo's costs while managing a tight budget in athletics). There has been a lot of RIFs already, butting heads with Schloss (money for facilities, but Schloss would have left regardless due to dislike of A&M traditions), not helping ensure more NIL for Men's BBall programs, no movement on Women's bball (but Joni sat on the search committee who hired him), W soccer fiasco (that team went from top echelon to nobody's almost instantly), etc.

Trev gladly kept the higher prices instituted by prior AD Bjork (esp. concessions) as that's part of the rev to help fund Jimbo payout (refunding those who saddled up). Also expect more concerts and futbol games in the future...saw too much money from them to not continue to be considered.

Ultimately he going to manage to a $20M student athlete budget across all teams I believe (or heard). We will fall behind other major schools, but also have heard he's trying to give football an extreme piece of the pie (as common sense is get that program up and running to next levels and into CFP and then donor funding will improve as easy to tell a story if they do accomplish...why when football fell apart in Nov., it messed up some extreme hope). If it doesn't, we lose on many fronts.

Many articles, but an initial view when hired (nothing earth shattering, but some tell-tale signs)

https://myaggienation.com/am_news/new-am-ad-alberts-prepared-for-change-in-college-athletics/article_5f35ddf2-1c9d-5bcd-b2a1-d632fb9c9bad.html

This will be a key of the future of NCAA student athlete

https://athlonsports.com/college/texas-am-aggies/texas-a-m-ad-trev-alberts-to-play-key-role-in-ncaa-settlement-implementation

Dimond1968 said:

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Trev Albert is an issue. A fiscal hawk who coaches get tired of dealing with.

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Please explain