Roy Williams is Not a Story
College Basketball April 8th. 2008, 10:03am
Can we please not make this into a story? Mario Chalmers hit the most clutch shot in the last 21 years of the Final Four, and we hope that will be enough to prevent grimly mischievous Tar Heels fans from getting moderately hostile about the North Carolina coach wearing a Kansas Jayhawks sticker to the game last night. He coached at KU for 15 years. He took Kansas to a title game when most of the UNC message board troglodytes were shitting in diapers. This is not a betrayal. He has no reason to leave North Carolina, which will be loaded next year (much too premature 2008-2009 rankings to come!). So it’s a non-issue, OK? And let’s all give Bill Self the obligatory 72-hour window to relish the title before getting back to that Oklahoma State chatter from last week.
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April 8th, 2008 at 10:07 AM
whatever. if the giants lost to the packers in the nfc title game, and i had to endure seeing tom coughlin in a cheesehead during the super bowl, i’d be upset too. i don’t care where roy was for 15 years. it was pretty embarrassing.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Was Roy trying to pull an A-Rod/Scott Boras World Series? I doubt it. It is times like this when I ask myself “what would Coach K do?”
April 8th, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Heels fans need to relax. I thought it was classy of Roy to show his support for the Jayhawks. He obviously helped Kansas stay near the top of the college game, and over 15 years, I’m sure he made some lifelong friendships in Lawrence.
How about this for a rumor to drive the Heels fans nuts: If Self takes the OSU job, Kansas is going to make a play to bring Roy back.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Did someone preempt 90210 this morning?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Best way to make it not a story: Create a post about it.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Roy is the man.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:12 AM
i agree TBL that Chalmers shot is the best since Keith Smarts clutch shot
April 8th, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Roy Williams is not a story…so let me write a story about it. You’re in the vortex.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Also acceptable would be:
a. Hold up a sign that says “nothing to see here”
b. Quickly hide whatever your doing and act paranoid when someone walks by
c. Repeatedly deny, even when it has nothing to do with the subject (i.e. “I don’t know why Memphis choked but it has nothing to do with Roy Williams who is definitely not a story”)
April 8th, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Since athletics these days is full of fanatic freaks, how will this not become a lame story that we have to hear about until next basketball season? Then all next season we will get to listen about how the two teams are “destined” to play in the championship game next year. I can’t stand over-dramatic idiot fans that get on message boards and bitch about non-news.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:15 AM
I thought Roy deserved a punch in the eye for that one.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:16 AM
It pissed me off, I don’t care how many years he was there, he didn’t need to have a damn sticker on his shirt. It’s not like he was an instiution there, it was 15 years, not 30. Maybe if they hadn’t LOST to freaking Kansas two nights before then it wouldn’t have bothered me but it made me question just how hard he prepared his team to play a school he still obviously loves so much.
It reminded me of Kevin Millar throwing out the first pitch for Boston when he is still with the O’s. At least Millar hadn’t just lost to them two nights before in the ALCS.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:16 AM
I’m going to have to agree with irish on the clutch shot. As much as I want to say Scotty Thurman’s in 94 was just as clutch, it wasn’t in the final 5 seconds of the game like last nights.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:17 AM
This is worse than the time Bobby Fischer wore a yarmulke to Dick Schaap’s funeral.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:18 AM
millar is a sad individual. everyone thinks he is special, so no one made a big deal of that.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:19 AM
who the hell is millar neo?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:19 AM
my bad, kevin duuuhhhhh
April 8th, 2008 at 10:20 AM
OT:
Just saw Tiki Barber walking down the street. He was carrying one of those enormous shopping bags from Bloomingdales. Wanted to snap a pic, TBL, but also didn’t want to look like a huge creep, either.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:20 AM
TBL, do you hate UNC or just merely loathe anything UNC-related?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Please do not making anything of this post/non-post. This is a story/non-story.
Hey, I’m on first and first. How can the same street intersect with itself? I must be at the nexus of the universe!
April 8th, 2008 at 10:21 AM
It’s fine to be there in support of your former school, but the sticker is too much. Congratulate them in private.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Just a guess, but recruit another couple of white guys who end up sucking ass?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Stay there, Kramer. I will find you!!!!
April 8th, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Somewhat unrelated, but I don’t understand why these days it’s destined for a coach to always go to their alma mater as their ultimate dream job. Back in the day, tons of coaches didn’t coach their alma maters, and many times coached at rival schools (Adolph Rupp went to Kansas, coached at Kentucky, Dean Smith went to Kansas, coached at KU, Vince Dooley went to Auburn, coached at UGA, etc.). Why would Bill Self leave Kansas, one of the premier coaching jobs in the country (gotta be top 3 or 4, right?) for Oklahoma State, a relative nobody on the CBB landsape? Is it really all about the money that T. Boone Pickens would lay out for him? Is it just coaching at his alma mater? I just don’t get it.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:23 AM
@atl: I understand the point, but I think you meant to say that Dean Smith coached at UNC.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:27 AM
and he didn’t have 1 kansas shirt left over? he had to slap on that goofy sticker. seemed sort of token.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:28 AM
@ Mike NYC: you could have become the official paparazzi of TBL. Shame on you.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:29 AM
I think Roy wanted to paint his whole body Kansas blue but he thought that might be going a bit far.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:33 AM
cbh49er, bruce pearl disagrees. there is never enough body paint.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:34 AM
hey 412, did you link to that story about Coach Cal saying free throw shooting was the 26th most important thing? Do you have the link handy?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Roy seems to want it both ways. In the week leading up to the F4 all he could talk about was how he’s the coach of UNC now and that Kansas is in his past.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Puh-lease…it would be like Johnny Damon showing up at a Red Sox game wearing a Sox t-shirt. Williams walked out on Kansas. He has no right to wear their logo.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:30 AM
In Williams’ defense, he was wearing his Bad Idea Jeans at the time.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:30 AM
I hate getting to work late in the morning and missing all the conversations.
Cool Rick nailed it. This guy is so needy that Scott Boras wouldn’t even take him on as a client.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Johnny Damon spent four seasons in Boston.
Better analogy: Jeter leaving the Yankees for the Red Sox, playing there for two years, and then sitting in Yankee Stadium for a playoff series with a Yankees sticker on his shirt.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:35 AM
He loves KU so much he left to go coach at UNC. Kansas got their revenge in the Final Four. I think it was OK to wear that sticker. His team was no longer playing, and he was showing his support for the school that made him into a household name. He actually owes his UNC gig to his success at Kansas. Actually, I’ll bet that this token gesture ups his recruiting credibility. “Coach Williams cares about you, and will care about long after you leave UNC. Look, he showed that he still cares about KU long after he left there”
April 8th, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Per wikipedia, they have won the national title twice and been to the Final Four six times (most recently in 2004).
April 8th, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Roy Williams at Kansas = Derek Jeter in New York? That’d make sense if Roy Williams had actually won any titles while head coach at Kansas, TBL.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Crookednose and TBL, how about Wade Boggs showing up in Fenway?
April 8th, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I actually thought Roy openly supporting KU was pretty classy, though I wish they had not interviewed him about it at half time. I will probably always be a little bitter about how he left back in ‘03, but I have no doubt that he really does love Kansas.
And I have to echo a few other comments — a non-story gets a post? It reminds me of PTI when both Wilbon and Kornheiser agree that something is silly/a non-story and then go on to talk about it for two minutes. I really wish they would instead protest by not saying anything until the bell rings.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Yeah, he’d be vilified, Jay. Boggs made his name in Boston, was in fact my favorite player growing up, and now it’s like he never even played there. If he’s fine with that, the fans are too. Nobody’s sitting in Boston these days, pining over Wade Boggs, that’s for sure. (Well, maybe Margo Adams.)
As for Williams: If last night’s championship game was in Lawrence, Kansas, not a neutral site, I doubt you would have seen him at the game with a Kansas sticker on.
As a Sox fan, I thought Millar throwing out the first pitch was funny. If I were an O’s fan, however, I’d have been irked. Unless you’re a fan of the team being dissed, you’re really in no position to comment.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:52 AM
I have no problem with him being at the game and pulling for Kansas. Just don’t wear the fucking shirt. You lost that right.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Doesn’t matter, Damon had a distinct Red Sox personality. Same thing.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:56 PM
My thoughts are along with Jay. show up and show your support for Kansas, sit in their crowd, cheer like a little girl with Chalmers sinks that shot.
DO NOT WEAR A FUCKING KU STICKER ON YOUR BLACK T-SHIRT. That’s the only problem I have with it. The fucking sticker.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:02 PM
a douchebag?