ROFL!! Roy Williams interview

[GagHalfrunt]

Live on CBS, reporter asked Roy Williams, after just having lost the national championship game, how he felt about taking the North Carolina head coaches job if it was offered. Roy thought it was an insensitive question and said "I don't give a sh*t..."

 

[rgwalt]

Thats Roy for you...

Ryan

 

[mpitts]

Good.

What kind of damn question is that? I'm glad he made his feelings known.

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Thats Roy for you...

Ryan

Can you blame him?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

LOL, nope, don't blame him at all. It's about time that reporters started getting answers like that, maybe they'll more carefully consider their questions in the future.

 

[PoPPeR]

but you realize that the media is one of the most powerful forces in this country, and mr. williams will be made to look like the evil man and not the dumb reporters who ask questions like that

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: thawolfman

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Thats Roy for you...

Ryan

Can you blame him?

Not one bit. I carry his signature with me in my wallet, everywhere I go. He signed the back of one of my tickets back in 98, my freshman year at KU.

I bleed blue and red, and my heart got broken again tonight. There is always next year though. Rock Chalk Jayhawk GO KU!

Ryan

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
but you realize that the media is one of the most powerful forces in this country, and mr. williams will be made to look like the evil man and not the dumb reporters who ask questions like that

he's been coaching for longer than those reporters have been alive. they can kiss his ass.

 

[NFS4]

I don't blame him one bit. Sounds like the perfect answer to a retarded question that has been asked of him a thousand times in the past week.

 

[bonk102]

he had the right to be like that, stupid questions deserve answers liek that

 

[jcwagers]

I guess in a way, I think he should've handled the interview a little differently. As was previously stated, it WILL make him look like the bad guy. On the other hand, that was a HORRIBLE question to ask a coach who has just had his team play with everything they had and lost. Keeping that in mind, while I don't think it was a great thing to say on TV, I can understand his frustration about the whole thing. That is a blatant slap in the face to the game that his team just played. It's like saying "oh, who cares! Your team lost.....so what are you going to do now?" With all of the time that he has spent with his team, I can certainly appreciate his honesty.

jc

 

[Ismisus]

anyone capture it?

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Kansas put to together a great season . . . especially considering how it started. No offense to the KU clan but karma has determined that Roy's titles should come at Carolina.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: jcwagers
On the other hand, that was a HORRIBLE question to ask a coach who has just had his team play with everything they had and lost.

Everything they had? I started counting the number of times Collison, Heinrich or anyone else had an open perimeter shot, pumped and didn't take it...but then I ran out of fingers and toes!

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Kansas put to together a great season . . . especially considering how it started. No offense to the KU clan but karma has determined that Roy's titles should come at Carolina.

:beer:

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Umm.. try counting the number of times Collison and Graves missed free throws. Kansas lost this game on their own. If only they made their freethrows the game might have been different.

 

[JHawk]

DAMNIT. Oh well, we'll keep trying. Roy may have lost his cool but he is really a class guy in my book. I personally hope he stays.

 

[chizow]

At least he didn't have a reason to cry until the last day of the season. He'll be coaching Carolina Blue next year. Poor timing to ask tho.

Chiz

 

[rgwalt]

Last time I checked he hadn't made a decision yet... Year after year I hear that he is leaving. It might be the year, it might not.

Ryan

 

[jcwagers]

I didn't watch the game but I'm certain that Kansas played with everything they had. They had bad free-throw shooting. They had bad 3 point shooting. But....they lost by 3 points. That says something about their team. They obviously played as hard as they could or they wouldn't have gotten it so close....in my opinion. I can't say that because they made mistakes that they didn't play as well as they could.

jc

 

[focusyn]

he's one of the best coaches out there right now, he can say whatever he wants, and he answered the question didn't he?

 

[nitsuj3580]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
but you realize that the media is one of the most powerful forces in this country, and mr. williams will be made to look like the evil man and not the dumb reporters who ask questions like that

Nah, he won't. I'm a 'Cuse fan and was cheering for him when he told off the reporter I think most people know how pathetic the media can be some time. Have a little respect for the guy! (referring to the f#$#in reporters)

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Part of the excitement from the Tourney evolves from the possibility (albeit unrealistic) that anyone could win it all and the clear likelihood the BEST team (over the course of the season) will not win. Anyway, I will continue to cheer for Roy and Kansas even if he makes the horrible, terrible, clearly misguided, and irrational decision to stay in Lawrence . . . AGAIN. Personally, I think the odds were in our (UNC) favor if he had won.

 

[Ismisus]

no one captured it? No links?

 

[luv2chill]

Here's the clip.

I was at the game. Heartbreaking and Kansas always seem to end up in the same sentence together. I really thought we'd do it this time.

Hats off to Syracuse who owned the Big XII this season.

Of course the nice thing about a Final Four in the Big Easy is that Bourbon Street is only a few blocks away, It was a great time regardless.

As for Roy--he's staying. It was never in doubt (despite his silence on the matter). On a steamy evening in June 2000, I sat in Memorial Stadium as he announced that he was staying at Kansas, the primary reason being that when he recruited his players, he told them he would be their college coach for their college tenure--he could not turn his back on them for personal gain. He's just that kind of guy. You should be able to look up the word "class" in a dictionary and see his picture.

In the three years since he turned down UNC the last time, nothing at all has changed. Yes he grew up in NC, yes he was a player and assistant coach there, yes his kids live there, yes he would be coaching one of the most storied bball programs in the country. But even taken together, none of that will outweigh his dedication to his players. If he left now, it would be in effect saying that three years ago his players were worth staying for but now they aren't--he wouldn't/couldn't live with himself in that scenario.

Yes, I'm sure some ungodly majority of college coaches would immediately dump whatever school they currently helm to take the reigns at UNC. But Roy Williams is an odd-ball--a guy who actually puts his players' needs before his own. A guy who practices what he preaches, and a guy who tells it like it is. It is so refreshing to see someone left in the sports world (hell, the entire world) who has principles.

Roy still has the BCNTWANC label for at least another year. Let me take nothing away from Boeheim, who has been waiting forever for his (and the school's) first title. Congrats to him and his team, but the best college coach in the country did not win tonight.

l2c