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Originally Posted by markk
after all Roy did for KU, coming in after the cloud of scandal enveloped the university, bringing them back to respectability and everything, i dont understand why most ku fans are like 'piss on him'. is no one who works for the uni ever allowed to work anyplace else again?
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On the off chance that you actually 'don't understand' it.
First off, not sure how you bring something 'back' to respectability a couple years after a national championship. By that reasoning, I guess Florida's on the lookout for someone to bring them back to respectability about now.
Second, this is a matter among the 'elite' programs, those that have been high quality for decades, basically the Kentucky's, UCLAs, Dukes, UNCs, and KUs of NCAA. And UNC gained it's entry into this hall through the efforts of a KU alum, who is now walking around with the attitude that what we grounded him in and what he exported to UNC, now ORIGINATES in UNC.
And while he did the most with his chance, we did give him that chance when he was totally unproven, and we bought in to everything he was selling, and we said our legacy is your legacy, and he was on track to bye our modern John Wooden, then he hears Dean Smith's bullshit, and says 'your legacy is nice and all, but UNC's legacy, now there's a REAL legacy, I think I want THAT legacy.'
Basically, he wasn't a gun for hire. He wasn't a microwave oven to rev us up and send us in a new direction. He and KU formed a marriage, each ostensibly pledging full, unadulterated lifetime support, then he found out his old flame was available.