Is a "very good" college basketball coach vitally concerned with his student athletes' academic development, with their attaining degrees and educations that equip them for life's experiences in the broadest sense, as well as for their professions? I believe he must be, and Williams -- based on Maryland's abysmal graduation rates (I recall the last NCAA analysis indicated a zero percent rating for the Terps, although I could be wrong) -- entirely de-emphasizes this critical arena. The overwhelming majority of ACC basketball players will never become professional athletes, but every one of them will face a post-undergraduate future measured (probably) in six decades, or more. Wouldn't a "very good" basketball coach be almost obsessively focused scholastic- and life-preparation, in addition to "hardwood achievements?"
Please see
USA Today's article that confirms a zero percent Maryland graduation rate:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colle...on-polls_N.htm
"Fear the Classroom" and "A mind is a Terrapin thing to waste" certainly are legitimate jibes.