an open letter to roy williams
dear roy-
first off, congratulations on winning your first national championship. we all knew you would get it eventually.
also, i wanted to say that i am incredibly impressed with what you have done at north carolina. you took a group of whining, selfish thugs who only wanted to go to the nba and turned them into a team that not only played well together, but won a national championship. and all in only 2 years.
that said, i do have some grievances to air. i would be lying if i said that i was rooting for you to win tonight. in the deepest part of my heart i wanted to see you win a championship...but not until AFTER we brought one home to kansas. i wanted to prove to the country that kansas basketball is just as good, if not better since you left us so abruptly two years ago. obviously, i now need to re-evaluate my heart.
i am in NO WAY saying that i do not have complete faith in bill self. i am very happy that he is our coach. however, the thin line between love and hate that me and many of the jayhawk faithful crossed upon your departure in 2003 has left somewhat of a bad taste. not so much THAT you left, but HOW you left. i forgive you for going home. but i wanted so much to believe that it was the wrong move. i wanted to believe that we weren't being left out to dry and you would struggle in your new home. it's not that i don't still respect the hell out of you, but it is nearly unbearable to watch you, a man who personified our university for 15 years, finally accomplish this feat with another school in 2 brief years when, in 15 years, you couldn't bring one to us with the same kind of teams and talent. you can understand my wanting your first championship to be several years away and not tonight. it's a pride thing. i freely and openly admit that.
i also admit that i am bitter. i admit that i am jealous. i believe that kansas needs a championship more than UNC did. and no one will ever be able to convince me that, had you stayed at KU, we wouldn't have won it once in the last two years. instead, we had a program that was divided. your players, self's system. the clean slate will begin next year, but a clean slate is a step backward in my opinion. and for this, it will take much longer for me to forgive. why couldn't your team experience the same transitional growing pains that we have had?
all in all, i realize that what's done is done. i have done my part to move on. i look forward to being able to pull for you and your teams again in the future.
but, tonight was just too soon.
carolina will remain an elite program. kansas will remain an elite program. now that you have your ring, let us play for a little bit so that we can regain the rich comparisons that our schools have shared throughout the history of the game.
and don't get too upset when we beat you.
best of luck in the future, roy. this is the last letter i will write to you.
-cade-
first off, congratulations on winning your first national championship. we all knew you would get it eventually.
also, i wanted to say that i am incredibly impressed with what you have done at north carolina. you took a group of whining, selfish thugs who only wanted to go to the nba and turned them into a team that not only played well together, but won a national championship. and all in only 2 years.
that said, i do have some grievances to air. i would be lying if i said that i was rooting for you to win tonight. in the deepest part of my heart i wanted to see you win a championship...but not until AFTER we brought one home to kansas. i wanted to prove to the country that kansas basketball is just as good, if not better since you left us so abruptly two years ago. obviously, i now need to re-evaluate my heart.
i am in NO WAY saying that i do not have complete faith in bill self. i am very happy that he is our coach. however, the thin line between love and hate that me and many of the jayhawk faithful crossed upon your departure in 2003 has left somewhat of a bad taste. not so much THAT you left, but HOW you left. i forgive you for going home. but i wanted so much to believe that it was the wrong move. i wanted to believe that we weren't being left out to dry and you would struggle in your new home. it's not that i don't still respect the hell out of you, but it is nearly unbearable to watch you, a man who personified our university for 15 years, finally accomplish this feat with another school in 2 brief years when, in 15 years, you couldn't bring one to us with the same kind of teams and talent. you can understand my wanting your first championship to be several years away and not tonight. it's a pride thing. i freely and openly admit that.
i also admit that i am bitter. i admit that i am jealous. i believe that kansas needs a championship more than UNC did. and no one will ever be able to convince me that, had you stayed at KU, we wouldn't have won it once in the last two years. instead, we had a program that was divided. your players, self's system. the clean slate will begin next year, but a clean slate is a step backward in my opinion. and for this, it will take much longer for me to forgive. why couldn't your team experience the same transitional growing pains that we have had?
all in all, i realize that what's done is done. i have done my part to move on. i look forward to being able to pull for you and your teams again in the future.
but, tonight was just too soon.
carolina will remain an elite program. kansas will remain an elite program. now that you have your ring, let us play for a little bit so that we can regain the rich comparisons that our schools have shared throughout the history of the game.
and don't get too upset when we beat you.
best of luck in the future, roy. this is the last letter i will write to you.
-cade-
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