North Carolina Coach Roy Williams calls press "hypocritical"

[tornado]

Actually, Roy has talked about UNC not deserving their preseason rankings each of the past two seasons. He talked about it just last week on ESPN.

but the players and the coaches, even if they won't say so, tremendously desire and covet the adulation, praise, glory, and boost in recruiting prowess that go with being up there in the preseason rankings....

[Braves4Life]

but the players and the coaches, even if they won't say so, tremendously desire and covet the adulation, praise, glory, and boost in recruiting prowess that go with being up there in the preseason rankings....

Wouldn't you?

[tornado]

honestly -- no I don't seek the limelight, never have and never will...

[Braves4Life]

honestly -- no I don't seek the limelight, never have and never will...

You might if it was a requirement for success in your chosen field. Otherwise, in college sports you'd probably be a failure, or mired in mediocrity, since all of the top recruits would never hear about you. You see, being a "Carolina", or a "Duke", "Kentucky", "Kansas", et. al. means you're constantly in the limelight. If you're a coach like Billy Gillespie who shuns that limelight and the stresses, responsibilities, and expectations that come with it then you get fired and replaced by someone else. Great players want to go where they will be seen and promoted week in and week out. That's why coaches like Roy Williams seek the limelight and come up with the goofy sayings and one-liners -- it's good press and PR....... and their players and recruits want to see that....... because it means that THEY will be in the limelight...... and being in the limelight means thay have the best chance to further their career goals...... being a high paid professional athlete.

[lefty]

Right...but Roy doesn't start talking about it until after racking up a few embarassing losses to non-ranked teams.

Roy or anyone at UNC doesn't have to do anything to get hype from the media....especially espn...

I don't think 5 point losses to Minny and Vandy are embarrassing..or the loss to Illinois for that matter.

He's sticking up for a kid everyone heralded and a few weeks later they blast away at the freshman......I don't blame him at all.

[Braves4Life]

Roy or anyone at UNC doesn't have to do anything to get hype from the media....especially espn...

I don't think 5 point losses to Minny and Vandy are embarrassing..or the loss to Illinois for that matter.

He's sticking up for a kid everyone heralded and a few weeks later they blast away at the freshman......I don't blame him at all.

Ditto! And by the end of the season that team and Barnes will be a forces to be reckoned with.

[jasonpeoria911]

I think OK State Football coach Mike Gundy said it best 3 years ago in the video below. I'm sure most have seen it already but maybe some havn't. Might of even been a thread on here about it, I can't remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMmbUmKN0E

Jason