The Pendulum Swings.....

Roy Williams decent into the ranks of the coaches who have embarrassed themselves with their on-air behavior gave me an opportunity when looking back at last year when the Billy Gillispie-Jeanene Edwards( not sure if that is spelled right) spat became all the rage on the net for his "abrasive and brutish " behavior to think on how this kind of thing happens when things seem to be going a little more difficult than usual for a coach.

Gillispie's little scuffle with Edwards was after a particularly interesting half of basketball and Billy was not going to be trifled with. Now Roy, sling and all, was intently trying to accomplish, well, what I do not know, up by 40 and pulling away. Basketball has this ugly way of coming around to you in time, and whereas the BCG show was in full swing last year with its tirades, question marks, and beatings from our better prepared rivals, including UNC, it appears as though this year is Roy's turn. He loses to UK, and it's not his only loss, pressure starts to build, albeit in this case there couldnt have been that much, then someone does something regrettable and it turns into a frenzy. As Tru pointed out, in his current condition he could not likely throw a chair, choke someone, or pull some other reprehensible behavior out of his repitoire. The coaches seem to have a habit of doing this kind of thing in really high-strung situations, and this was far from a high-pressure affair.

Now maybe he really is a jerk, I do not know. As I said in other posts I have always found him to be an affable, well disciplined individual making sure he does not do just this type of thing, but I could be wrong. But to send in your goon squad to run off a Presbyterian???? I shudder to think of what the almighty has in store for you Roy.

What if he had been Methodist, or even more of a wildcard, an agnostic??? I go out of my way to make sure I dont tempt the Man Upstairs just in case us Baptists dont have everything exactly right . You may want to be careful there Roy......no one likes a bully.