As then-Kansas coach Larry Brown thinks he remembers it, anyway, Quin Snyder should have been a Jayhawk if not for some odd dustup among KU players during Snyder’s mid-1980s recruiting visit from Mercer Island, Wash.
“That might have sealed the deal for Duke,” Brown said Friday — albeit with a laugh allowing for the possibility his memory was helping him make an excuse.
But being rejected by Snyder didn’t make Brown reciprocate.
That meant dinner with Snyder and Billy King (who’d also chosen Duke over Kansas) after Kansas beat the Blue Devils in the 1988 national semifinal at Kemper Arena in Kansas City.