Lost in the NCAA Final Four Hoopla:
Apr 4, 2022 12:42:55 #
Question:
What former NCAA coach has watched two of his former programs play for an NCAA Championship?
Answer:
None…until tonight
Roy Williams
15 years at UK
18 years at UNC
9 Final Fours
3 Championships
What former NCAA coach has watched two of his former programs play for an NCAA Championship?
Answer:
None…until tonight
Roy Williams
15 years at UK
18 years at UNC
9 Final Fours
3 Championships
Apr 4, 2022 16:44:17 #
Dannj wrote:
Question:
What former NCAA coach has watched two of his former programs play for an NCAA Championship?
Answer:
None…until tonight
Roy Williams
15 years at UK
18 years at UNC
9 Final Fours
3 Championships
What former NCAA coach has watched two of his former programs play for an NCAA Championship?
Answer:
None…until tonight
Roy Williams
15 years at UK
18 years at UNC
9 Final Fours
3 Championships
When you ask a question isn't it usually customary to wait for an answer?
Just sour grapes because I knew the answer.
Apr 4, 2022 17:21:41 #
flip1948 wrote:
When you ask a question isn't it usually customary to wait for an answer?
Just sour grapes because I knew the answer.
Just sour grapes because I knew the answer.
Sorry👍 I guess I was trying to stay ahead of the “googlers”.
Apr 5, 2022 00:24:34 #
Tough game for the Tarheels, but coming back from a 15 point deficit at the half proves why Kansas is a Champion. Congratulations to the Jayhawks - well played (this from North Carolina).
Apr 5, 2022 14:01:58 #
Drove our son to a basketball camp at Kansas in the late 80’s. I remember Roy was much shorter than I expected, but he was a great coach.
Apr 5, 2022 14:13:41 #
UK stands for University of Kentucky. Roy coached at KU _ Kansas University. I'm a rabid Jayhawk and KU grad.
Apr 5, 2022 14:16:40 #
I’m going to take the liberty of posting this from a local concerning the end of coach K’s career:
“As I watched Coach K shake hands with Hubert Davis last night and tell him “to go win it and finish it off in style”, I had an unexpected rush of emotion. It was not anger that UNC had won, it was the realization that an era had ended. Not the era of Coach K, but the era of Tobacco Road legends that had dominated the sport, and in many ways gave an entire State its identity.
Legends like Everett Case, Frank McGuire, Vic Bubas, Bones McKinney, Norm Sloan, Dean Smith, Jim Valvano, Dave Odom, Roy Williams, and Mike Krzyzewski. It was an era that meant so much to so many. Many of us chose our favorite color as a young child or what college we would attend based on these Tobacco Road rivalries. TVs being rolled into our classrooms were a staple of ACC tournament Fridays. Families were divided and friendships were formed and strained over the intense rivalries in this era.
There were players and coaches we loved, or we loved to hate, and there are too many of them to list. This era produced the greatest collegiate player ever in Shelby’s David Thompson, and the greatest basketball player of all time in Wilmington’s Michael Jordan. Both the wins and losses in this era brought many to tears. Michael Jordan’s jumper, Lorenzo Charles’s dunk, Christian Laettner’s buzzer beater, and Randolph Childress’s ACC tournament performance are memories engrained in the mind of every fan from this era. These moments and countless others brought pure euphoria to the fans of the winners while producing feelings of disgust for those who had to watch their rival win a big game or championship.
With the advent of the transfer portal and the NCAA’s name image likeness rules, college basketball, the ACC, and especially the Big 4 are forever changed. As much as we want it to continue this era ended last night and is never coming back. Coach K was the last of these legends and with the changes to the sport we will likely not see another”
“As I watched Coach K shake hands with Hubert Davis last night and tell him “to go win it and finish it off in style”, I had an unexpected rush of emotion. It was not anger that UNC had won, it was the realization that an era had ended. Not the era of Coach K, but the era of Tobacco Road legends that had dominated the sport, and in many ways gave an entire State its identity.
Legends like Everett Case, Frank McGuire, Vic Bubas, Bones McKinney, Norm Sloan, Dean Smith, Jim Valvano, Dave Odom, Roy Williams, and Mike Krzyzewski. It was an era that meant so much to so many. Many of us chose our favorite color as a young child or what college we would attend based on these Tobacco Road rivalries. TVs being rolled into our classrooms were a staple of ACC tournament Fridays. Families were divided and friendships were formed and strained over the intense rivalries in this era.
There were players and coaches we loved, or we loved to hate, and there are too many of them to list. This era produced the greatest collegiate player ever in Shelby’s David Thompson, and the greatest basketball player of all time in Wilmington’s Michael Jordan. Both the wins and losses in this era brought many to tears. Michael Jordan’s jumper, Lorenzo Charles’s dunk, Christian Laettner’s buzzer beater, and Randolph Childress’s ACC tournament performance are memories engrained in the mind of every fan from this era. These moments and countless others brought pure euphoria to the fans of the winners while producing feelings of disgust for those who had to watch their rival win a big game or championship.
With the advent of the transfer portal and the NCAA’s name image likeness rules, college basketball, the ACC, and especially the Big 4 are forever changed. As much as we want it to continue this era ended last night and is never coming back. Coach K was the last of these legends and with the changes to the sport we will likely not see another”
Apr 5, 2022 14:55:59 #
61jhawk wrote:
UK stands for University of Kentucky. Roy coached at KU _ Kansas University. I'm a rabid Jayhawk and KU grad.
Kansas may be known as “KU” but I believe the official name is University of Kansas.
Apr 5, 2022 15:44:02 #
Apr 5, 2022 15:54:16 #
You are correct. I was just trying to be helpful to you in distinguishing between Kentucky and Kansas . Did you notice what is in parenthesis in the name? Hope you have a great day.
Apr 5, 2022 18:09:22 #
61jhawk wrote:
You are correct. I was just trying to be helpful to you in distinguishing between Kentucky and Kansas . Did you notice what is in parenthesis in the name? Hope you have a great day.
What’s so hard about distinguishing between the University of Kentucky and the Iniversity of Kansas? Sounds like this is a big deal for you and that’s great…be proud of it and congrats on a great win.
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