Maryland Eastern Shore, like many basketball programs near the bottom of D-I, is going through is going through turmoil to a degree that pretty much does not exist in the power leagues. Sometimes a bit of that turmoil is self-made, though.
Example: UMES fired head coach Bobby Collins in March, but rather than hire a new long-term guy, they simply promoted assistant Cliff Reed to interim coach, delaying the coaching search a year. For some reason. I’m sure there’s a reason with some logic of some kind.
But it does no good whatever to leave the program in limbo longer than necessary, and while Reed theoretically has a chance to win the gig this season, that seems unlikely, given that the Hawks are in for another long year on the court.