Buzz was about Buzz. Let's focus on Buckyball!!

Its really amazing how quickly the Maryland media has figured him out.

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With Bucky's early success, and Buzz struggling, it's a lot easier to bash the guy! I'm impressed with Bucky ball, but I'm also gonna wait until we beat a ranked team before I get overly excited about this year's team. That said, I like his style and I think the future is bright.

What I don't get is the crazy amount of hate for Buzz and celebrating his failure. I always liked Buzz and his last three Aggie teams were very solid teams. Celebrating another's failure is what weak cowards do. Just sayin.

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This wasn't really the point of your post but harping over "ranked" wins is a big gripe of mine.

We now have 3 Q1A wins, all on the road. That is the highest tier of wins in the eyes of the committee. They don't factor in the other team's rank at time of game at all.

First-year Texas A&M coach Bucky McMillan has done an incredible job this season.

Aggies in first place in the SEC at 7-1 after another road win, this one in Athens.

Texas A&M have road wins over Auburn, Texas and now Georgia.

Bucky Ball: 17-4, 7-1

The Buzzsaw: 8-12, 1-8

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) January 31, 2026

The best medicine for Purdue?

The Buzzsaw.

The Boilermakers now up 30 in College Park against Maryland.

Terps will fall to 1-9 in the Big Ten - ahead of only 0-10 Penn State.

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) February 1, 2026

Last game was the worst conference loss in Maryland history. Today was the worst home loss in Xfinity history. pic.twitter.com/Lxau0uyYOm

— Rudy Gersten (@DCBarno) February 1, 2026

I don't mind piling on here. Buzz is a "fine" coach and probably met the expectations that BMAs had for him considering that most of them care more about football than basketball. If he doesn't leave for Maryland we might have had him for 4-5 more years before any serious grumbling started as long as he kept making the tournament.

But, as a more than casual fan with a lot of playing experience, the things he focused on as a coach were inexplicable.

Free throw miss offensive rebounding?

Overloading your man to man defense on the ball side? (Why do we want to force a ball reversal to an open shooter and force our defense to scramble?)

Running the first to the floor drill in warmups?


It's like from the beginning of the game plan we'd established that we can't make our own free throws, we can't actually guard our own man one on one without those overloads and that we're going to cough up a lot of loose balls that we have to hop on. Essentially we suck and our coach has prepared us for how to respond to our suckage.

It's just a loser's approach masquerading as coaching around the margins using 'analytics.'

As much as Buzz frustrated me down the stretch here, I don't think he's a bad coach and wouldn't be surprised at all if he retools next year with a shifted identity and his team succeeds.

damn, buzz got the brakes beat off his ass v. Purdue. 30 pt loss. wow.

At home on 8 days rest

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As much as Buzz frustrated me down the stretch here, I don't think he's a bad coach and wouldn't be surprised at all if he retools next year with a shifted identity and his team succeeds.

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He never really succeeded here, you have to at least make a sweet 16 for your tenure to be considered a success IMO.

He's been a head coach since 2008 and he has just one conference championship with a 12-11 record in the tournament. He's a gimmick head coach and it's time to just move on from this guy.

Judging a coach purely by how they do in a single elimination tourney remains a fool's errand, yet people still do it

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Judging a coach purely by how they do in a single elimination tourney remains a fool's errand, yet people still do it

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It's a six year sample size, and it's literally the goal every year to go as far as you can in the tournament

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Judging a coach purely by how they do in a single elimination tourney remains a fool's errand, yet people still do it

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It's a six year sample size, and it's literally the goal every year to go as far as you can in the tournament

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If all that matters is how far you go in March, you aren't a college basketball fan, you are a March madness fan

Yes the tourney matters the most. No one denying that. It also remains a dumb way to singularly judge a coach. It's just a data point

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Get off your high horse. Every coach is judged by how successful they are in March. The best coaches in the game also happen to have success in the tournament. They also happen to consistently get 1-3 seeds which helps in the path to the sweet 16 and beyond. Buzz never did that either. I also pointed out that he won his conference as a head coach one time in 17 years, that is not impressive

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Judging a coach purely by how they do in a single elimination tourney remains a fool's errand, yet people still do it

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It's a six year sample size, and it's literally the goal every year to go as far as you can in the tournament

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If all that matters is how far you go in March, you aren't a college basketball fan, you are a March madness fan

Yes the tourney matters the most. No one denying that. It also remains a dumb way to singularly judge a coach. It's just a data point

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Get off your high horse. Every coach is judged by how successful they are in March. The best coaches in the game also happen to have success in the tournament. They also happen to consistently get 1-3 seeds which helps in the path to the sweet 16 and beyond. Buzz never did that either

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It's not a high horse

I literally said it's important. It still just remains one data point (a big one obviously). Putting all your eggs in that one basket still remains a fool's errand

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We likely aren't going to be raising any banners to the rafters but Buzz will win games. He's got a track record. But, the "Buzz Ball" cultural fit, I'm afraid is going to be an ongoing issue throughout his UMD tenure. As fans, donors, supporters, we seemed to have lost ownership of our MBB program. It's now his team. Not ours. We can go along for the ride, if we want but he doesn't care or need us if we decide not to. And, if that's the case, you dam sure better win.

This is on school President Dr. Pines for allowing an interim AD with one foot out the door to make a rushed, safe revenue sports hire that simply doesn't seem to be a fit with UMD-CP + Terp Nation in any way, shape or form.

Now, new AD Jim Smith is tasked with cleaning up this mess along with the greater athletic department issues he inherited. The man is a forward thinking leader with a high sports business acumen. But, he's not a magician.

Buzz can continue to insulate + distance himself outside everyone in his bubble, It's hIs program and he can run it the way he wants. But, the win/loss margin of error is virtually zero if you do that. Don't ask me to support you, when you lose.. If you don't care or are irreverent towards me and the rest of the fan base. I can play that game just as well as you.

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Did not know Buzz could write a letter without 75% of the message being in emojis.

Director of Process, is like assistant to the regional manager.

They actually made a video of Buzz writing a sappy note to a player and then posted it on social media? That's just weird.