A screen shot during the CBS broadcast of Monday night's Kansas-Memphis national championship game caught none other than Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams sitting in the Kansas section with a KU sticker on his shirt. Williams just happens to be the coach at North Carolina. His Tar Heels were thumped Saturday night by those same Jayhawks. Roy coached at KU for 15 years before moving back home to Carolina in 2003.
The natives in Carolina are restless. Many look at this as an act of sacrilege, as if Williams wants to go back to KU. The leading UNC message board, Inside Carolina, currently has a 19 page thread debating the idea of Williams taking on the KU colors for one more night:
Roy Williams
There is a long-running rivalry between fans of Kansas and North Carolina. They have a history of sharing coaches. UNC legend Dean Smith played at Kansas. KU national championship coach Larry Brown played for Smith at UNC. Former Smith assistant Williams graduated from UNC and coached at both KU and UNC. KU fans would like to take the credit for UNC's success. The truth is, Frank McGuire was winning games at UNC before Dean Smith got there. Likewise, KU was winning games before they got coaches from UNC.
This year, though, KU has scoreboard on Carolina.
5 comments:
Roy coached at KU for 15 years
Idiots from NC, imho. That's like the idiots who think that every guy on the Ticket should be a total cowboy homer.
The greatness of the Ticket came when the old Hardline would throw the Cowboys under the bus. Sure, Rhyner's anti-Cowboy faction is more schtick than anything, but it was great radio.
I don't mind people like George being Cowboy homers. However, it's good for the Cowboys and good for ratings to have some criticism where warranted. That's where shows like the Hardline come in.
Some of those Carolina people act as if the world revolves around Chapel Hill. A lot of the KU people have been even worse, as they took it personally when Roy left KU to go to UNC. Of course he's going to go home for the right opportunity-duh! Most of the Jayhawkers are over Roy now, though, as of Monday night.
They think they have their team of old, but yet, tis not that way.
It just reminds me of the ones who think Bob Strum should be a cowboy fan even though he grew up being a huge GB fan - tattoo and all. Like you're supposed to just leave that history behind.
This dude's team lost ... now he wants his old team to win. Big deal!!!
Better a sticker on a tee than a speedo.
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