Tyree Evans Speaks To Us About Leaving Maryland, Gary Williams And Kent State
Times are tough for Gary Williams and his Maryland Terrapins this year. They are perhaps going to miss the tournament for the fourth time in five years.
There has been talk Williams’ days as head coach are numbered. A few days back, he lashed out, defending the fact that had the athletic department let some of the players he brought in stay, his team might be better off this season. (Though, Chas Rich points out Williams might be reaching a bit at this point.)
Kathy Worthington, an associate AD, responded back to Williams, saying his remarks were “inaccurate” and saying she was “very surprised by Gary’s comments because I had been so involved with each recruit.”
Then Williams said this: “Kathy Worthington doesn’t speak for me. She has never won a national championship. She has never done anything. She is an associate AD.”
It’s a bit of a “he said, she said” battle at this point, but it’s clear Williams isn’t quite a fan of Debbie Yow and her department. One of the players affected by all this was Tyree Evans.
Evans has been adamant he left Maryland on his own terms, a statement Williams backed up. There were rumblings Yow was the real reason behind his departure, because she wasn’t a fan of Evans’ criminal background and was going to subject him to a review by the Office of Student Conduct before he could be admitted to the school.
Our interview with Evans from today on this topic is after the jump.
Now at Kent State, Evans never explicitly stated Yow and the athletic department was his reason for leaving, but he did say this:
It just felt like it wasn’t the place to be. I love the coaches there, even when I see them I talk to them. I call them and see how they’re doing, see how the season’s going … They believed in me as a player, and as a person.
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It wasn’t a place for me where I could call home. There were some people who believed in me and there were some people that didn’t believe in me. I just backed out because of my sake. I just felt like that wasn’t the place for me, a place I could call home. I want to be comfortable somewhere. I feel comfortable at Kent State.
Listen to the entire interview here:
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