It’s been clear for a long time that Maryland and Mark Turgeon were a bad match and the fans have been frustrated for some time. After losing to Virginia Tech this week, the fans booed and chanted ‘fire Turgeon!”
And maybe he had just had enough.
Gary Williams was a great match for the Maryland fans because he was just as boorish as most of them and never hesitated to tell anyone, even his boss Kay Yow, to kiss off. They loved him for that.
Turgeon, by all accounts we’ve seen Friday, is a very decent man and not nearly as demonstrative as Williams was.