Roy Williams is a happy camper in this, his 14th season at Kansas.
“Thank goodness they mail that check to my wife or direct deposit it because I’d feel guilty going to the pay window if I had to go pick up my paycheck,” Williams, coach of the country’s No. 1 team, said Thursday.
“I enjoy going to practice every day. There is not a single day I do not enjoy being out on the court. The kind of kids they are, I enjoy being with them, bringing ’em by the house to dinner, taking them to church, being on the bus listening to stories, kidding with ’em.
“It’s the most enjoyable (season) in the last three years. We’ve never had a bad group here, but this group, even when I go ballistic and go off the wall ranting, a crazy screaming lunatic they do something 10 minutes later to make me not be mad at ’em.”
Heels struggling: One coach going through tough times is former KU assistant Matt Doherty. His North Carolina Tar Heels are 5-7 after Wednesday’s historic 112-79 loss at Maryland.
It was the most points ever allowed by a Tar Heel team.
“Last night when I walked in the house the first question I asked Wanda was, ‘Have you heard the North Carolina score?'” said Williams, who had yet to learn the Heels’ fate on the same night KU waxed Nebraska, 96-57.
“He’s a tough kid I still say kid even though I don’t know how old he is now. He is a very tough-minded individual that will suffer a great deal with this, but will keep fighting. Better days are ahead. I’ve talked to people in a lot of professions. I’ve never heard of a profession where the lows are as low as coaching. (After games like Carolina’s on Wednesday) when you walk the floor to the locker room and go home you feel somebody has stripped your heart out and shook it in front of your face.”
The bad news is Carolina might continue to get stomped this season. The good news is Doherty has one of the top recruiting classes in the nation coming in next year.
Cryptic quote: Williams was talking about the recruitment of Drew Gooden and mentioned the fact Gooden and his mother, Ulla, who lives in Arkansas, made an unofficial visit to KU’s campus the summer before Gooden’s senior year at El Cerrito High in Richmond, Calif.
“I am 99.9 percent sure that it was August when they came by,” Williams said. “That has nothin’ to do with any banks or anything.”
It was a cryptic reference to last week’s flap at Colorado in which Williams said he was 99.9 sure he wrote no letter to Colorado’s David Harrison in recruiting and CU coach Ricardo Patton said if he was accused of robbing a bank he’d be 100 percent sure he didn’t.
Roy Williams is a happy camper in this, his 14th season at Kansas.
“Thank goodness they mail that check to my wife or direct deposit it because I’d feel guilty going to the pay window if I had to go pick up my paycheck,” Williams, coach of the country’s No. 1 team, said Thursday.
“I enjoy going to practice every day. There is not a single day I do not enjoy being out on the court. The kind of kids they are, I enjoy being with them, bringing ’em by the house to dinner, taking them to church, being on the bus listening to stories, kidding with ’em.
“It’s the most enjoyable (season) in the last three years. We’ve never had a bad group here, but this group, even when I go ballistic and go off the wall ranting, a crazy screaming lunatic they do something 10 minutes later to make me not be mad at ’em.”
Heels struggling: One coach going through tough times is former KU assistant Matt Doherty. His North Carolina Tar Heels are 5-7 after Wednesday’s historic 112-79 loss at Maryland.
It was the most points ever allowed by a Tar Heel team.
“Last night when I walked in the house the first question I asked Wanda was, ‘Have you heard the North Carolina score?'” said Williams, who had yet to learn the Heels’ fate on the same night KU waxed Nebraska, 96-57.
“He’s a tough kid I still say kid even though I don’t know how old he is now. He is a very tough-minded individual that will suffer a great deal with this, but will keep fighting. Better days are ahead. I’ve talked to people in a lot of professions. I’ve never heard of a profession where the lows are as low as coaching. (After games like Carolina’s on Wednesday) when you walk the floor to the locker room and go home you feel somebody has stripped your heart out and shook it in front of your face.”
The bad news is Carolina might continue to get stomped this season. The good news is Doherty has one of the top recruiting classes in the nation coming in next year.
Cryptic quote: Williams was talking about the recruitment of Drew Gooden and mentioned the fact Gooden and his mother, Ulla, who lives in Arkansas, made an unofficial visit to KU’s campus the summer before Gooden’s senior year at El Cerrito High in Richmond, Calif.
“I am 99.9 percent sure that it was August when they came by,” Williams said. “That has nothin’ to do with any banks or anything.”
It was a cryptic reference to last week’s flap at Colorado in which Williams said he was 99.9 sure he wrote no letter to Colorado’s David Harrison in recruiting and CU coach Ricardo Patton said if he was accused of robbing a bank he’d be 100 percent sure he didn’t.
Roy Williams is a happy camper in this, his 14th season at Kansas.
“Thank goodness they mail that check to my wife or direct deposit it because I’d feel guilty going to the pay window if I had to go pick up my paycheck,” Williams, coach of the country’s No. 1 team, said Thursday.
“I enjoy going to practice every day. There is not a single day I do not enjoy being out on the court. The kind of kids they are, I enjoy being with them, bringing ’em by the house to dinner, taking them to church, being on the bus listening to stories, kidding with ’em.
“It’s the most enjoyable (season) in the last three years. We’ve never had a bad group here, but this group, even when I go ballistic and go off the wall ranting, a crazy screaming lunatic they do something 10 minutes later to make me not be mad at ’em.”
Heels struggling: One coach going through tough times is former KU assistant Matt Doherty. His North Carolina Tar Heels are 5-7 after Wednesday’s historic 112-79 loss at Maryland.
It was the most points ever allowed by a Tar Heel team.
“Last night when I walked in the house the first question I asked Wanda was, ‘Have you heard the North Carolina score?'” said Williams, who had yet to learn the Heels’ fate on the same night KU waxed Nebraska, 96-57.
“He’s a tough kid I still say kid even though I don’t know how old he is now. He is a very tough-minded individual that will suffer a great deal with this, but will keep fighting. Better days are ahead. I’ve talked to people in a lot of professions. I’ve never heard of a profession where the lows are as low as coaching. (After games like Carolina’s on Wednesday) when you walk the floor to the locker room and go home you feel somebody has stripped your heart out and shook it in front of your face.”
The bad news is Carolina might continue to get stomped this season. The good news is Doherty has one of the top recruiting classes in the nation coming in next year.
Cryptic quote: Williams was talking about the recruitment of Drew Gooden and mentioned the fact Gooden and his mother, Ulla, who lives in Arkansas, made an unofficial visit to KU’s campus the summer before Gooden’s senior year at El Cerrito High in Richmond, Calif.
“I am 99.9 percent sure that it was August when they came by,” Williams said. “That has nothin’ to do with any banks or anything.”
It was a cryptic reference to last week’s flap at Colorado in which Williams said he was 99.9 sure he wrote no letter to Colorado’s David Harrison in recruiting and CU coach Ricardo Patton said if he was accused of robbing a bank he’d be 100 percent sure he didn’t.
Roy Williams is a happy camper in this, his 14th season at Kansas.
“Thank goodness they mail that check to my wife or direct deposit it because I’d feel guilty going to the pay window if I had to go pick up my paycheck,” Williams, coach of the country’s No. 1 team, said Thursday.
“I enjoy going to practice every day. There is not a single day I do not enjoy being out on the court. The kind of kids they are, I enjoy being with them, bringing ’em by the house to dinner, taking them to church, being on the bus listening to stories, kidding with ’em.
“It’s the most enjoyable (season) in the last three years. We’ve never had a bad group here, but this group, even when I go ballistic and go off the wall ranting, a crazy screaming lunatic they do something 10 minutes later to make me not be mad at ’em.”
Heels struggling: One coach going through tough times is former KU assistant Matt Doherty. His North Carolina Tar Heels are 5-7 after Wednesday’s historic 112-79 loss at Maryland.
It was the most points ever allowed by a Tar Heel team.
“Last night when I walked in the house the first question I asked Wanda was, ‘Have you heard the North Carolina score?'” said Williams, who had yet to learn the Heels’ fate on the same night KU waxed Nebraska, 96-57.
“He’s a tough kid I still say kid even though I don’t know how old he is now. He is a very tough-minded individual that will suffer a great deal with this, but will keep fighting. Better days are ahead. I’ve talked to people in a lot of professions. I’ve never heard of a profession where the lows are as low as coaching. (After games like Carolina’s on Wednesday) when you walk the floor to the locker room and go home you feel somebody has stripped your heart out and shook it in front of your face.”
The bad news is Carolina might continue to get stomped this season. The good news is Doherty has one of the top recruiting classes in the nation coming in next year.
Cryptic quote: Williams was talking about the recruitment of Drew Gooden and mentioned the fact Gooden and his mother, Ulla, who lives in Arkansas, made an unofficial visit to KU’s campus the summer before Gooden’s senior year at El Cerrito High in Richmond, Calif.
“I am 99.9 percent sure that it was August when they came by,” Williams said. “That has nothin’ to do with any banks or anything.”
It was a cryptic reference to last week’s flap at Colorado in which Williams said he was 99.9 sure he wrote no letter to Colorado’s David Harrison in recruiting and CU coach Ricardo Patton said if he was accused of robbing a bank he’d be 100 percent sure he didn’t.