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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We're graduating all our guys. Our APR is (perfect) 1,000 the last six years. I mean, there's a lot of good things going on, which I think means as much to having a program as winning games do. And when he was there, he built the program."
Bill Self on Roy Williams March 25th, 2012 Lawrence Journal-World
According to a poll of 100 Coaches, Roy Williams is the most overrated coach in college basketball.
CBSSports.com
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Q: Who did Keith Langford play for?
A: EA7 Emporio Armani Milan in Milan, Italy
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Shifting from Williams to Self wasn't easy transition
Confession time. Unbeknownst to many of my friends, for the longest time, I preferred Roy Williams over Bill Self. It was hard not to love the teams put together by Williams and the back-to-back Final Four appearances in his last two years at Kansas. But before the 'Bill Self for President' campground makes a dartboard of my picture, let me explain.
Born and bred a Kansas basketball fan, I grew up with Roy. At times, it felt as if I was even under his tutelage. The first tournament loss I can remember watching was against Duke in 2000. I hated Duke and coach Krzyzewski. In 2001, Kansas lost to Illinois in the Sweet 16. I despised Illinois and Bill Self.
The 2002 and 2003 teams put together by Roy Williams were hard not to like. A simple utterance of names like Aaron Miles, Keith Langford or Jeff Bosche is the easiest way to bring a smile to my face.
Players like Boschee and Kirk Hinrich were the driving inspirations behind hoop dreams of my own. My haircut was even modeled after Boschee. It was borderline idolatry.
Roy Williams led, in my mind, a perfect team to the 2003 National Championship game against Syracuse. My love for Roy was at an all-time high before Syracuse's Hakim Warrick swatted away the national championship dreams of both Michael
Lee and myself. Then it happened: his departure.
It was over. Roy had left. Although I was struck with sorrow, I didn't feel betrayed.
I was impartial to the hiring of Bill Self in 2003, but after first-round tournament losses to Bucknell and Bradley in Self's second and third years, respectively, I was slandering the guy.
Then Self's recruiting kicked in. My favorite Self-era recruit, Julian Wright in 2005, gave me a newfound sense of hope for Self. Suddenly, the recruits were piling in. The teams were better. After the Jayhawks' championship run in 2008, Williams and Self were still equal in my eyes. Why? By 2009, Williams had won two championships at North Carolina, while Self had only one at Kansas.
Now, I can let go. The Tarheels have been unranked at one point in each of the last three years. The last time the jayhawks were unranked was Dec. 1, 2009.
Self is playing head maestro to one of the best teams in his tenure, a team that I have more confidence in to take the title than any of his past teams at Kansas. So yes, I'll say it: Bill is better than... Judas.
—Edited by Taylor Lewis
This week in athletics
Tuesday
No Events Scheduled
Wednesday
Women's basketball
vs. Iowa State
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Thursday
No Events Scheduled
Friday
Women's tennis
Denver
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Track
Armory Collegiate
Invitational
All Day
New York, N.Y.
Saturday
Women's swimming
vs. Arkansas
10 a.m.
Lawrence
Women's basketball
vs. Kansas State
2 p.m.
Mhattan
Men's basketball
vs. Oklahoma State
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Track
Armory Collegiate
Invitational
All Day
New York, N.Y.
Sunday
Women's tennis
vs. Saint Louis
Noon
Lawrence
Monday No Events Scheduled
NCAA
Big 12 athletic directors discuss possible conference additions
ASSOCIATED PRESS
IRVING, Texas — Big 12 athletic directors spent several pros and cons of maintaining their 10-tem configuration or eventually making additions to the conference — or maybe doing something in between.
League commissioner Bob Bowlsby repeated what he has said before "that our current composition is terrific for us" but the ADs went through plenty of "what-if" scenarios to be prepared for any
eventually in what has been an ongoing shift of conference affiliations. The Big 12 has lost four members to other leagues while adding West Virginia and TCU.
"I think we did gravitate around some principles that will guide us going forward and I think we created some filters that we all agreed on." Bowsls said after the first day of their regular scheduled two-day meeting. "I think there was a fair amount of unanimity in the room."
Among the possibilities is an alliance with other conferences,
including the ACC, and Bowlsby said there appears to be unar.imous support for the idea.
"We talked about those kinds of things, and I think there are some ways that you can get some of the benefits and some of the value of larger configuration without actually adding members," Bowlsby said. "We spent a good portion of the late afternoon talking about how that all fit together and how it worked."
Bowlbsy didn't get into specifics and wouldn't say what other conferences could be in the mix. Pac 12 and SEC officials have indicated they have had no such discussions with the Big 12.
All the Big 12 athletic directors agreed to defer questions to Bowlsby, but several seemed encouraged by their discussions when asked what was accomplished.
Their first day was reserved for discussing the makeup of the league, and Bowlsby said that was "talked completely through for about three hours." Bowlsby said there were a whole bunch of different financial and geographical and scheduling possibilities discussed.
Bowsby described the meeting as a free-flowing opportunity to interject a lot of ideas, and said the interactive nature by everyone in the room was probably indicative of the interest in the topic.
"I think that it's possible to make a considered decision to stay at the most favorable structure and that's where we have been," Bowlsby said. "But having said that, I don't think we ever want to be in a position of being un-nimble, and by that I
mean it's a changing environment and we have to be prepared to respond to that changing environment, and this meeting is certainly going to help us do that."
Bowslsby said there is evidence that dictates the league stay at 10 schools, and other that suggests getting bigger.
"We have evidence on both sides of it," he said. "But I don't know that any of it is compelling enough to cause change right now."
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