OK, I give . . . what the heck are you talking about?
Gary Williams is retiring.
OK, I see. Somehow I was trying to read too much into this with the reference to beating Jeff to the punch. I was looking for some kind of an inside joke rather than the usual "TOS to" post. Maryland is certainly an East Coast school so it fits the genre of "TOS to" jokes.
Trivia Question: Do you know the connection that Gary Williams has tangentially to the firing of Earle Bruce? It was a very seamy story. This is a saga that may soon be eclipsed at A&M with the ongoing Tatto-gate revelations which now seem to be morphing into auto-gate and booster-gate.