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. tvp1 04/08/2008 at 10:44 AM #

    “Felton was born a Carolina fan and would have gone there if Satan was their coach.”

    Yes. And even though Dean had retired by then, he still went anyway.

  2. mafpack 04/08/2008 at 10:44 AM #

    Link below is to the SportingNews website with a pic of Roy and the infamous sticker, all credit to them for posting it.

    http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/TheSportingBlog/145855/

  3. Mike 04/08/2008 at 10:52 AM #

    One other funny thing – all the UNX fans calling in to talk radio yesterday, complaining Roy was saving his timeouts and he is a bad coach.

    All I have to say is this – if you dont want him, I can find a house for him in West Raleigh with a nice coat of red paint. Wish we had a bad coach like him.

  4. GoldenChain 04/08/2008 at 10:59 AM #

    If roywonderboy came to Raleigh then he’d have TWO GROUP to “make nice” to!
    He’s obvious perhaps the best recruiter there is and a great coach but that shirt was one more stupid thing to do under the circumstances.

    Thanks for the link BTW!

  5. newt 04/08/2008 at 11:17 AM #

    If it wasn’t for the sticker, he’d look like an over-the-hill Sprocket.

  6. quad87 04/08/2008 at 11:24 AM #

    I wonder what Ben Howland wore last night and where he sat? Seems Roy is pretty smart to me.

  7. VaWolf82 04/08/2008 at 11:51 AM #

    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.

    I noticed almost immediately. But I didn’t know if it was seen by everyone or just authors.

  8. choppack1 04/08/2008 at 11:56 AM #

    Here’s an interesting link – a formula that does a better ranking job than RPI, seedings and overall ratings:

    http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1802&ga=1

  9. blackdom 04/08/2008 at 12:08 PM #

    ^ Sweet we were 4-0 against teams ranked 201 and higher yeah Sid he will turn us around in another 20 yrs.

  10. Noah 04/08/2008 at 12:14 PM #

    So Felton is the perfect example that Carolina recruits itself.

    That’s one player. You need 11 more.

    In case you missed it, not only does Williams have a top class coming in next year, I think he’s already signed a bunch of top players for the two years after that.

  11. JeremyH 04/08/2008 at 12:26 PM #

    who wouldn’t want to go to Carolina???

    you have Michael Jordan calling you on the phone,
    you have Roy Williams in your living room chatting up your parents,
    and then you get to see and party with the UNC-Chapel Hill student bodies.

    what’s not to like?

  12. EverettBeez 04/08/2008 at 12:35 PM #

    I had the common reaction – that is cool that he can still support them, says a lot about the folks in Kansas & his time there. Course, that makes leaving for UNC an even bigger compliment to them.

    That it is making the ‘holes fans crazy is truly a bonus.

  13. MrPlywood 04/08/2008 at 12:36 PM #

    As others have pointed out, it was a sticker, not a “shirt”. Someone probably slapped it on there and Mr Nice Guy was too polite to take it off. The IC thread is funny, trashing Roy and noting that his treason will cause recruits to look elsewhere, for T and others to go pro, and exacerbate the mortgage crisis and global warming.

    Previously they were trashing wonderboy Hansborough after the Kansas game. Too funny! I dare say that after seeing the IC and Dookie boards after their losses it’s easy to see that they are spoiled and have no capacity for dealing with adversity. Unlike us weather-beaten and world-weary Pack fans. heh

    BTW – in an unrelated note – did anyone else hear Jay Bilas say that Ty Lawson had “great eyes”?

  14. primacyone 04/08/2008 at 12:43 PM #

    Word on the street is that Lee Fowler had on his Memphis T-Shirt last night.

  15. Rick 04/08/2008 at 12:52 PM #

    “Word on the street is that Lee Fowler had on his Memphis T-Shirt last night.”

    Did he have his matching striped pants and shackles on as well?

  16. Trip 04/08/2008 at 12:59 PM #

    Let Roy wear a damn sticker for his old school. I’m a total nc state fan, through and through, but that doesn’t mean that I should turn the tv off and ignore all of the postseason and not find a team to cheer for because my team decided to suck all year. I was cheering on both sets of Tigers (Clemson/Memphis) and wanted Memphis to win. My dog wasn’t in the fight, so why can’t I cheer for someone else?

    I like Calipari, he may pick up some shady thugs on his team but one thing you CAN say is that he cares about them. He cared about his players enough to say no to NC state’s 2 million dollar offer, some of the best facilitys, a nutty fanbase that will give him money regardless of results and a chance to play in one of the best conferences in the nation rather than beating up on CUSA. Fowler may have screwed up the coaching search but Cal said no to the money in favor of his players. Anyone who does that gets respect from myself.

    Also, I think Cal takes these “Thugs” and trys to mold them into socially acceptable people. Read some articles on Dorsey on ESPN/CBS, who came from the worst place in Baltimore. He said when he was recruited by Calipari that Cal told his mom “Don’t worry about discipline, I’ll make sure to keep him out of trouble.” and Dorsey said that he gets yelled at daily by Cal, but feels like he’s a better person now because of him always riding his ass.

    But could you imagine if he came to NC State and brought Rose with him? … ah I guess I can dream.

  17. Ed89 04/08/2008 at 1:44 PM #

    you have Michael Jordan calling you on the phone,
    you have Roy Williams in your living room chatting up your parents,
    and then you get to see and party with the UNC-Chapel Hill student bodies.

    Add to that:
    1) You get to play pick-up games with former players, May, Felton, McCants.
    2) You get praised nightly by ESPN and Dickie V.
    3) Once you’re recruited by Carolina, you automatically get another star by your rivals/scout ranking.
    4) You get to say your school has been to the Final Four 17 times and you’ve won it all 4 times (not 5!!!!) – once when the opposition throws the ball straight to you with 10 seconds left (when you have 3 future NBA All-Stars on your team)
    And lastly, you get to wear very pretty powder blue uniforms with a foot on them – and the ALL-IMPORTANT JORDAN LOGO!!

  18. Sweet jumper 04/08/2008 at 1:55 PM #

    Ed89-4)…and another time when your opponent calls a timeout that he does not have.

  19. CaptainCraptacular 04/08/2008 at 2:03 PM #

    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

    Dorsey dunked the ball and immediately pushed off his foot to head back up the court when he ran into Aldridge who was right on top of him. There wasn’t anything intentional about it and he wasn’t even looking at Aldridge during the accidental bump or as he ran past.

    If you tivo’d it take a look at the replay. He wasn’t looking at him because he didn’t expect him to be right there. he shoved off his foot to get started going the other way.

    As for the thugs, here’s a quote from CDR after the game:

    “It hurts, you know,” Douglas-Roberts said. “It really hurts. They made some great plays down the stretch, and Mario hit a big shot at the end of regulation.

    “We missed those shots. No excuses. They won the game fairly. I thought the officiating was really good. We just came up short.”

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I consider that a pretty classy thing to say. Pretty far away from thug-like behavior if you ask me.

  20. CaptainCraptacular 04/08/2008 at 2:14 PM #

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

    For the uninformed tar heel fan over at IC: Bo actually said that when Bill Frieder left for ASU. He didn’t want Frieder coaching them in the 1989 NCAA, so he let Fisher take over the team for the tourney and the rest is history.

  21. Noah 04/08/2008 at 2:33 PM #

    That’s an ironic quote…considering that Bo Schembecler learned the game from Woody Hayes.

  22. Ed89 04/08/2008 at 3:12 PM #

    Thanks Sweet Jumper, I forgot about the “other” gift.

  23. Trip 04/08/2008 at 3:21 PM #

    “I don’t know about anyone else, but I consider that a pretty classy thing to say. Pretty far away from thug-like behavior if you ask me.”

    Like I said earlier, I think Calipari may recruit “Thuggish” players… but by the time they leave Memphis they’re a far cry from that.

  24. choppack1 04/08/2008 at 3:33 PM #

    When Cal’s name was floated I was concerned about the element he’d bring here. His first few teams at Memphis were plagued by off-court issues.

    However, this team seemed unselfish and played very hard. I watched the PC and the guys were hurting – but they answered the questions as best they could.

    I didn’t think Dorsey’s incident was a big deal. I didn’t see many cheap shots or evidence of “thuggish” play by this team. Of course, there is the dreaded “off-season.”

    Noah – I think Bo was more PO’d that the coach had already signed w/ ASU. I don’t think he necessarily cared about where you went to school or where you learned the game, just where your allegiances lay.

  25. spudwebb 04/08/2008 at 3:37 PM #

    I don’t think it is that big a deal, but if it makes Tarholes uncomfortable, I’m more than willing to point and laugh like it is.

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