Kansas' new villain?
With Saturday's win over North Carolina, maybe all those Kansas Jayhawk fans can finally just get over Roy Williams leaving them for the Tar Heels. It's been four years since he returned to his alma mater, something many coaches look forward to doing. All the guy did was return your program to its place among the elite in college basketball. Of course, they never mention how they got current coach Bill Self from University of Illinois with a big money offer. That never seemed to come up in the we-hate-Roy-because-he-left-us conversations.
Now, it seems that same things could be happening again to Kansas as Self, an Oklahoma State University alumni, is reportedly being wooed by the Cowboys and their big-spending booster, T. Boone Pickens. Of course, Self is saying he's not interested. But how long will he keep saying that if the figures being thrown around, including a $6 million, signing bonus are true?
Here's to hoping Self makes the cash grab and heads off to Stillwater. That way Jayhawk fans will have someplace to direct their stupid, misguided anger instead of Chapel Hill.
Tom Hunt







