WKU Basketball: Assistant Coach Shammond Williams Resigns — REPORT
Off-season movement for the 2017–2018 WKU Basketball team is still continuing. With the announcement of sophomore guard Damari Parris not getting his scholarship reinstated causing him to transfer a few days ago to the unexpected report coming out of assistant coach Shammond Williams resigning from his position at WKU, it’s leaving us with even more questions than we all initially had in the first place. With August around the corner, hopefully the last of the pieces will fall into place soon but all we can do now is strap in and hold on until we survive another crazy off-season.
Williams will now be the second assistant coach to leave the Hill this off-season after spending just one season under Stansbury at WKU. No official statement or reason as to why he resigned has been released from WKU yet, which only makes us speculate why he’s leaving. While he may only be an assistant coach, it could still have many implications on the team for next season.
Williams is the Godfather of freshman center Mitchell Robinson and one could argue had a pretty big role in recruiting him to and mentoring him on the Hill. Considering Stansbury isn’t going anywhere, it shouldn’t be of any concern that Robinson would leave with Williams considering he’s already enrolled PLUS Stansbury’s relationship with Robinson goes back to when he was at Texas A&M but it might lessen the chances that he would consider coming back for a sophomore season at WKU.
While we could sit here and speculate all these different scenarios, it might be best for us to just wait it out and let the dust settle before freaking out.
WKU basketball has had more than an acceptable amount of off-season movements the past few seasons with coaches leaving, players transferring, and all sorts of other things that many other major schools experience in the modern age of college basketball but we could all maybe learn a lesson or two from the Philadelphia 76er’s and just “trust the process” and let the pieces fall into place even when we don’t know what’s going on.
Even with WKU returning zero scholarship players from last season into the next, stability is hard to find with any team in today’s era of college hoops and with the talent Stansbury has assembled for the current projected roster, we shouldn’t be too concerned.
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