UNC national championship team not visiting White House

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UNC national championship team not visiting White House

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CHAPEL HILL


North Carolina's 2017 national championship men's basketball team will not visit the White House, a team spokesman said on Saturday, though the Tar Heels were invited to visit, as is the custom for teams that win college men's basketball and football national championships.

Whether UNC would visit President Donald Trump's White House, if the Tar Heels won, became a topic of interest during the Final Four. Before UNC's national champioship victory against Gonzaga, coach Roy Williams said he'd answer whether UNC would visit after the championship game, if his team won.

After the Tar Heels won, though, Williams offered no more clarity.

“We won in '05; we never got invited,” he said then, in early April. “I don't know if we're going to get invited this time. That's a bad way to put it. They invited us in September (2005) when they were doing a lot of teams.

“Well, all my team were already at the NBA training camp and two of them in Europe. So we didn't go in '05. And we did go in '09.But, you know, the office of the presidency of the United States is the most fantastic place you can be. But let me think on it.”



Williams after a UNC victory during the ACC tournament in March spoke out about the president’s Twitter habits. At the time, Williams was answering a question about the advantages of playing the tournament in New York City, and Williams’ answer led him to social media -- and particulary the president’s use of it.

“It used to be much more so than I think it is now,” he said then. “Now everybody's has got social media, and we don't need The New York Times to find out what in the dikkens is going on in the country. You know, our president tweets out more bullshyt than anybody I've ever seen. We've got social media.”

Steve Kirschner, the UNC men's basketball team spokesman, said the Trump White House did invite UNC, but that the university and the White House couldn't agree on a date.

“We couldn't find a date that worked for both parties,” he said. “We tried about eight or nine dates and between they couldn't work out that date, we couldn't work out that date, so – we would have liked to have gone, but not going.”

Kirschner added that UNC's players “were fine with going.”

Whether championship teams will visit the White House has become part of the national political dialogue since Trump took office in January. Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors All-Star guard, has said since the Warriors won the NBA championship that he doesn't want to go to the White House. One of his teammates, Kevin Durant, has said the same.

On Saturday morning, the president responded to Curry's desire not to visit the White House. In a post on Twitter, the president wrote, “Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!”

LeBron James, whose Cleveland Cavaliers lost to Curry's Warriors in the NBA Finals, then wrote a Twitter post of his own, in which James called Trump “a bum.” Several professional athletes and coaches, especially in the NBA, have spoken out against the president since he was inaugurated.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Imagine if The Coliseum had a sports social issues section.Regarding politics/boycotting/race

 

[Bishop_BP_Jakes]

Duke fan for life:CamDukeMad: but respect to em

 

[Pressure]

Duke fan for life:CamDukeMad: but respect to em

I was surprised, but Roy is untouchable. I'm kind of mad I didn't go to the football game today j7st to hear what they're saying at the tailgates.

 

[Henry Orbit]

Our backwards ass state legislature ain't gonna like this one

 

[T.he I.nformant]

UNC gets no stripes off this. Players were "fine with going." Only reason they seem to not be going is due to scheduling issues.

 

[Point Blank]

 

[Pressure]

UNC gets some no stripes off this. Players were "fine with going." Only reason they seem to not be going is due to scheduling issues.

Believe Cac PR spin brehs!

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Believe Cac PR spin brehs!

You posted their spin give us something that tells us the real or keep it movin

 

[Pure Water]

 

[Pressure]

The hell you talking about? These are college kids? they don't have anything but time. You really believe they couldn't work out a time to get to the white house if they really wanted to go?

 

[AVXL]

UNC gets some no stripes off this. Players were "fine with going." Only reason they seem to not be going is due to scheduling issues.

Yea they're not going because of scheduling conflicts. I fukks with UNC but this thread is misleading

 

[Pressure]

Yea they're not going because of scheduling conflicts. I fukks with UNC but this thread is misleading

Are the Tar Heels going to be there with Cheeto taking pictures and being used for good press?

 

[Born2BKing]

"players were fine with going" Ya'll nikkas need to read more than headlines.

 

[Rekkapryde]

the same nikkaz that created a major (a black centered one at that ) to keep majority black athletes eligible. Public Ivy

and 1 star because dem nikkaz would have gone too.

 

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