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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (21233)	7/1/2000 1:55:06 AM
From: Estimated Prophet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 49843

Joe, thanks for asking. Everything is as good as could be expected. Stage I, which means only radiation, and a 75% + chance of success. We are very happy and fortunate. Her brothers and sisters are all gone except her little sister who has been very ill. She feels alone these days. I am going to go visit again soon. Thanks for your concern. On another note, I have sat here for the several hours totally anguished and mentally wrung out over the possible loss of our basketball coach at KU. There is no way you could ever understand, because basketball is such an MAJOR part of our lives out here, and it just isn't something that you guys can comprehend. Coach Williams is a disciple of Dean Smith, who as you know is the winningest college basketball coach ever. Dean Smith grew up in the Kansas town of Emporia, dreaming of playing for Phog Allen and the Jayhawks. He went to KU, and was a little used reserve on the 1952 national championship team. He eventually went to Carolina and established the best program in the country. He did not have to recruit an eager boy from a poor background named Roy Williams, who could only dream of the chance to play for his beloved UNC. He walked on, and played for the freshman team, but never did get to be a star. He was happy to keep the stats and hang around the gym, so Coach Smith kept him around the program. After he graduated, Williams went to work as a high school coach. After five years of poverty, he accepted a job for even less money as a lowly assistant for his beloved Dean Smith at UNC. To supplement his meager salary, he drove around the state to every little gas station, selling some little idiotic calendars of the UNC b-ball team, and got a tiny percentage of the sales revenue. He and his wife barely got by. He continued to work hard for Smith, and his recruiting efforts paid off. He was instrumental in getting some players to come to No. Car. Players like Sam Perkins, James Worthy, and this one guy name Michael Jordan. And others. Matt Dougherty, etc. Neverhteless, nobody knew who he was outside of Chapel Hill. Until Kansas coach Larry Brown suddenly left his national championship team behind for an NBA job in 1988, knowing that there were recruiting violations which resulted in a one year prohibition from participation in the NCAA tourney. Dean Smith called his alma mater and urged it to hire this unknown assistant. KU hired him, and all of us alumni let out a collective scream in anger that our great school had hired some lowly assistant to guide the fortunes of our great program. We did not have to wait very long to find out that even after 30 years in Carolina, Coach Smith must have still had a little bit of Kansas in his heart. Because he gave up the one man he knew was the best, most humble servant he'd ever had, and granted us the privilege of hiring him to direct our beloved Jayhawks. So Roy came and made us all forget Larry Brown within a year and a half. He has ever since he arrived, only recruited the best young men into our alma mater. They are loyal to him almost to a fault. So are all of us fans. Dean Smith learned from Phog Allen. Phog Allen took over the KU team from its first coach, James Naismith. Yes, that's the man who INVENTED the game of basketball. He came to KU from Massachusetts in the late 1800's. You see, we have a bit of a tradition here. In 103 years, KU has had 7 coaches. Now, the Carolina folks want to take Roy back. Like he has been on loan for the last 12 years. I say to the Carolinians: go take a flying f*&k at a rolling donut! Around here, we're all talking to whoever that higher power is and putting in a good word for our boy Roy(and a little nasty word for anybody from No. Car.) Sorry, had to vent on some body. It's totally crazy, but I have been sitting here crying abut this for 2+ hours.