Roy Williams Sitting in Kansas Section with KU Shirt On During Championship Game

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Ol Roy. His ego has no limits. Your team has to fly back upset over losing in the Final Four, while you yuck it up in the Kansas section.<br>
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105 Responses to Roy Williams Sitting in Kansas Section with KU Shirt On During Championship Game

  1. El Scrotcho 04/08/2008 at 8:20 AM #

    Roy – If the team that knocked me out of a tournament was a classy one, I’ve always pulled/cheered for them to go all the way. Especially with Roy’s extensive history there, why not hang around and take it in – season’s over, there’s nothing left to do. What you gonna do, go home and cry over it?

    Packer – He can be one of the best at times, but man he gets stuck on some things and just doesn’t let them go…even when replay evidence would seem to contradict whatever it is he’s harping on.

  2. Noah 04/08/2008 at 8:30 AM #

    I don’t have a problem with it. The guy spent the better part of two decades in Lawrence. He probably recruited a bunch of the players there. He knows the AD and the staff and the boosters. I’d say it’s perfectly natural.

  3. Mike 04/08/2008 at 8:34 AM #

    I applaud ol Roy. KU was his former team and he still has connections there. Good for him for being open and honest, not hiding and playing the PC crap. I link this to V’s comment about the WF game several years ago that we touched on here in this blog. Everyone was rooting for Wake it seemed in that game except for State fans. Even V admitted he was rooting for Wake. While V was tongue in cheek, it goes to show there is nothing wrong with rooting for the good guys. Frankly, I was rooting for KU also, not necessarily for KU, but mostly b/c I think Calamari is a slime ball and I did not want to see him win anything. Nothing wrong with rooting for the old team to win it all.

  4. beowolf 04/08/2008 at 8:38 AM #

    I would just like to list the following quotations, in light of all the garbage we NC State fans here about us from people like these UNC fans, as well as our own AD, and remember, this is being said against a coach who has already won them a national title and kept them ranked No. 1 most of the year this year:

    And there it is!!!!! wow that is absolutely shameful!!!!! Roy if you want to go back to KU…dont let the door hit ya…way to stand by your kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Bo Schembecler said it best when he fired Steve Fisher, a Michigan man will coach Michigan.

    A Carolina man should coach Carolina. Roy Williams can hit the bricks as far as I’m concerned. Period. He rode in an won with Doh’s recruits and has now reverted back to form. It’s an insult to the entire Tar Heel nation. A Carolina man should coach Carolina, not a Kansas man.

    FREAKIN REDICULOUS!

    Major Major loss of respect

    I am very surprised. Not sure what to think. This is almost unreal.

    Proof he wanted KU to have the opportunity on Monday.

    I hate Dick Baddour, but I seriously hope he has a talk with Roy when he gets back to the Hill. I mean, is he purposely trying to mess up recruiting??????????

    I don’t understand the people who don’t have a problem with this. Our players are at home haveing to console themselves after a miserable loss while Ol’ Roy is laughing it up in the KU section.

    How can anyone NOT think that Roy’s feelings towards Kansas had a great deal to do with our loss the other night given what we just saw?! I’m disgusted.

    Well goodbye Tyler, Ty and Wayne. Thanks!

    That could force them to go. I don’t know.

    This is total BS. I was in school with Roy Williams and graduated a few years behind him. To me, this is salt in the wounds. 40-12 indeed. Probably had a KU sticker under his shirt last night.

    I haven’t said one negative word about Roy’s questionable coaching job on Saturday but that is inexcusable. His dadgum players arent even there anymore.

    HE’S NO TRUE TAR HEEL! Atleast put a damn UNC cap on or something. Have some school pride FOR YOUR UNIVERSITY!

    so much for YOUR ALMA-MATER!

    Dick Baddour should have hired Larry Brown in 2000. This is ridiculous. Who signs your paycheck Roy?

    HOMESPUN ROY IS DEAD TO ME. MAYBE HE SHOULD GO BACK TO HIS TRUE LOVE AND COACH THEM AGAIN WHEN BILL LEAVES.

    Roy shouldn’t you be in the locker room helping KANSAS at halftime!

    This is exactly what the Kansas fans were complaining about for the 15 years he was there. He’s a very selfish guy in a well meaning sort of way. He knew how this would be perceived, he just doesn’t care what we think, he’s gonna do what he wants to do. There’s not many coach’s in the country who would put their devestated team on a plane and appear two days later in their opponents’ colors, in their cheering section. That’s very mercenary of him. I’m just a fan, and I could barely go to work today. He was doing his whole crying thing 2 days ago, but he’s wearing their colors and cheering for them tonight, amazing. Maybe he’s just at some new level of “Class” that the rest of us just haven’t evolved enough to understand yet.

    And this, the pièce de résistance:

    It’s like he’s with his ex wife, while is present wife is at home who just suffered a miscarriage.

  5. Noah 04/08/2008 at 8:42 AM #

    Hey, cool…how do you make those little quote thingies?

    And, nothing…NOTHING would make me happier than for Roy Williams to not let the door hit him in the ass as he left Chapel Hill.

    I’ve pretty much resigned myself to the fact that UNC will always be in the top five as long as he is there. Not only do I consider him to be one of the two or three best coaches in the last quarter century, he’s easily one of the top recruiters. You can say all you want, “UNC recruits itself!” but they didn’t under Doherty and they didn’t under Guthridge.

    The day Roy Williams retires or takes another job will be a happy happy day for me.

  6. packbackr04 04/08/2008 at 8:46 AM #

    im just glad the Memphis thugs didnt win.

    i couldnt believe Dorsey didnt get T-ed up after he bumped Aldridge in the chest and was talking $hit. i mean, McCauley got a T for saying “and1” as he ran back down court, and Dorsey gets away with unnecessary and excessive physical contact… but it was “ok” because he didnt look him in the eye according to Packer/Nanatz

  7. Wulfpack 04/08/2008 at 8:51 AM #

    Noah, of course it is perfectly natural. No one is saying that he is not allowed to have feelings for Kansas.

    However, he is employed by someone else now, and that someone else is paying you a considerable sum of money. I will say it again — he is not getting paid to sit in the KU section with a KU logo two nights after he got his ass handed to him by KU. That is a lapse in judgment. If he were our coach, I’d be angry, too. Roy may have balls, but he just made his life a lot more difficult than it had to be.

  8. Noah 04/08/2008 at 9:00 AM #

    Mountains and molehills, I say. But think what you like…

  9. Rochester 04/08/2008 at 9:08 AM #

    I’m just a fan, and I could barely go to work today.

    This is priceless. This is why I love to see UNC lose. I hate their fans. They made the Final 4 and they’re still whining. What a bunch of babies. If we lost in the first round of the Final 4 I’d be disappointed, but thrilled we made it that far. That’s a great season, unless you feel like the world owes you a championship every year. I hate Carolina because I hate their fans.

  10. Ed89 04/08/2008 at 9:13 AM #

    ^^You can say all you want, “UNC recruits itself!” but they didn’t under Doherty and they didn’t under Guthridge.

    Roy won in ’05 with mostly Doherty’s players, so while I won’t defend Doherty, the Coach, he did recruit some good players. And I still say, you could put alot of coaches at UNC, and they’d still get the top recruits — not saying they’d win with them, but they’d still get them.

  11. newt 04/08/2008 at 9:19 AM #

    He just wanted to be associated with a winner. Typical bandwagon fan…

  12. primacyone 04/08/2008 at 9:21 AM #

    This has a 14% chance of getting really intersting.

    I can hardly wait to see if Bell Self will bolt.

  13. beowolf 04/08/2008 at 9:30 AM #

    Hey, cool…how do you make those little quote thingies?

    And, nothing…NOTHING would make me happier than for Roy Williams to not let the door hit him in the ass as he left Chapel Hill.

    No kidding.

    As for the first question, just use HTML “blockquote” format (like this, without the spaces between the command and the carets):

    < blockquote >TEXT YOU WANT TO QUOTE HERE < /blockquote >

  14. packbackr04 04/08/2008 at 9:33 AM #

    i think i heard them say only 1 of roys recruits was still on the KU squad that won last night.

  15. BoKnowsNCS71 04/08/2008 at 9:34 AM #

    “Roy may have balls, but he just made his life a lot more difficult than it had to be.”

    “I could give a s=== about that. — Roy Williams”

    Does anyone really think that Roy cares — much less worries — about what UNC (or any other) fans think about his decision to wear that KU shirt (and his UNC cap which people ignore)?

    If anyone thinks the UNC fan base is going to call for his head for being true to a school that gave him his first head coaching job for 15 years — you are deluding yourself.

    Roy could have been dressed in a KU cheerleader’s outfit and still gotten a fat raise when he returns to NC.

    And you know something, this whole “issue” ain’t our fight. I would love it if UNC FAN ticked off ole Roy and he left. UNC needs Roy — Roy does not need them.

  16. RAWFS 04/08/2008 at 9:36 AM #

    Holy crap. We can edit? Spectacular work SFN.

    Finally someone notices… 😉

    I put this upgrade in late last week. I didn’t say anything to anyone because I wanted to see if it got noticed at all.

    And, gentlemen, we are probably bumping up the blog to the next edition of WordPress once I am satisfied it is bug-free and working seamlessly on the test site for SFN. (Bet y’all didn’t know that there is a mirrored test site either. And no, no one can have the address, sorry.)

  17. NCSU84 04/08/2008 at 9:41 AM #

    Ed89 wrote:
    “And I still say, you could put alot of coaches at UNC, and they’d still get the top recruits — not saying they’d win with them, but they’d still get them”

    I could not agree more. Most recruits want to play in the Duke/UNC rivalry game – who wouldn’t. Unfortunately, this means nothing is left for us to recruit with these teams in our own backyard. And now you know why Calipari did not come here.

  18. newt 04/08/2008 at 9:41 AM #

    There are many coaches that would keep UNC top 5. You don’t think UNC recruited even while Doherty was there? Sean May? Raymond Felton? Rashad McCants? Doherty simply lacked credibility with his players that a number of established coaches would have. How many final fours did Guthridge go to? Forte was a pretty good recruit.

    Duke, I think, is different. I think recruits are drawn to K more than the school and there will be a dropoff when he leaves, if not sooner.

    There is a blog post on ACCnow about Roy’s appearance last night, but I can’t read it, because apparently the server is overloaded. This story is going to be the defining moment of UNC’s season. Awesome.

  19. MattN 04/08/2008 at 9:45 AM #

    17 pages on Roy wearing a Jayhawk sticker at the game last night.

    Those guys seriously need to get a life.

  20. Noah 04/08/2008 at 9:57 AM #

    Sean May? Raymond Felton? Rashad McCants?

    McCants, I’ll give you. Felton was born a Carolina fan and would have gone there if Satan was their coach. May went because of Bobby Knight getting fired at IU. It was timing.

    D’oh and Guthridge also brought in Brian Morrison and Jon Holmes and…uh…little else.

  21. RickJ 04/08/2008 at 10:06 AM #

    Ol Roy is a great coach but the year before he got to Kansas, they won a National Championship and the first year Bill Self had his complete team, they won it again.

  22. Howler 04/08/2008 at 10:21 AM #

    Wasn’t sure how I felt about Roy wearing the KU insignia, or if I really cared. I looked at a UNC blog site (now I feel like I need to shower) and I see that there are some mighty upset Tarheels. Sorta makes me chuckle, but I don’t thing it will mean anything a week from now.

  23. GoldenChain 04/08/2008 at 10:32 AM #

    I really don’t much understand you guys. Too many years of mediocrity has made your brains go soft or something.
    Roywonderboy ‘made nice’ all week last week to the Phog crowd in an attempt to kiss up to them so they wouldn’t hate him. Maybe some of you see that as classy but I see it as weak. They are your opponent, your adversary.
    That weakness translated to his players and it showed on Saturday.
    Kansas on the other hand viewed the heels as the enemy who deserved to be totally annihilated. And that’s exactly what they did.
    As I told BLS in an email, if xarolina had not played and been totally whipped by Kansas then OK, maybe for old time’s sake it would have been OK.
    But with fans, boosters, alumni, and players smarting over the terrible loss and most of them blaming HIS COACHING (game plan, TO’s, substitutions) it was at the least ill-advised!

    PS Let me add that I thoroughly and totally enjoyed every minute of that game Saturday, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of fans. I was glad to see the dragon get slayed!

  24. GoldenChain 04/08/2008 at 10:35 AM #

    PSS I’m looking for a picture on the Net ot roy in that shirt, does anyone have a link?

  25. newt 04/08/2008 at 10:41 AM #

    “McCants, I’ll give you. Felton was born a Carolina fan and would have gone there if Satan was their coach. May went because of Bobby Knight getting fired at IU. It was timing.”

    So Felton is the perfect example that Carolina recruits itself.

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