It’s April 1, and instead of maybe being in a Final Four, or even looking ahead to what could be a huge 2025-26 season, the Maryland Terrapins basketball program is in shambles, with both the AD and head coach having left in the last two weeks.
Randolph Childress has been on those sidelines as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Wake Forest, and when he joined the Junkies on Tuesday morning to discuss the Kevin Willard departure, well…let’s just say we hope the statement he made about the immediate future is an April Fool’s joke.
Despite being an alum and former coach of an old ACC rival, Childress is from DC so Maryland’s situation hurts him as a fan…but yeah, he’s just being honest in saying that this is a big mess, and no one’s sure if it was an AD/coach battle that led to both going, or something deeper.
“Let’s be honest: the timing of all this sucks. With an AD leaving, everybody's caught up in what Willard was saying, but it looks bad with Evans leaving and going to SMU and then Willard leaving. It's a bad look for Maryland athletics, period,” Childress said. “I don't care how you feel about it. You could be upset with Willard about it, but you're talking about an AD and a head coach leaving when a team was in the Sweet 16 – it just looks bad. So, however we feel about it, you gotta take a second and think of what's going on at the University of Maryland. It’s a bad look right now in College Park, for whatever reason.”
Listen to Childress’ entire visit with The Junkies above!