As the Gary Turns

So yesterday I finally gave up on Gary. Today, the Baltimore Sun reports that Gary and the MD Athletic Department are publicly sparring over the two recruits MD lost over the summer. It's bad enough that the Terps can't compete on the court, but know they have to fight off it?

Understand that Gary tried to pull rank here, citing his 20 years as head coach and his title, then insulted the deputy AD. Why would the deputy AD be addressing Gary publicly you ask? Becasue the AD, Debbie Yow, is mourning the loss of her sister, NC State coach Kay Yow, to breast cancer over the weekend. Read that last sentence again. I'll wait. Gary insulted the deputy AD, who is filling in for a grieving sister. How low class can you get?

To top it off, MD announced today that Jin Soo Kim, the first Korean to play Division I basketball, ineligible for the spring semester. So not only can Gary not keep his players competitive ON the court, he can't keep them eligible to play at all. Coming on the heels of Chris McCray not being enrolled in the minimum number of classes (that would be 1), we have a major problem here.

While Gary restored honor to a school that had lost plenty after Bob Wade took over from Lefty, he is now returning the Terps to that Wade level- uncompetitive and academically fraudulent.