Former Kansas University forward Scot Pollard was so upset by Roy Williams’ decision to leave KU for North Carolina, the Sacramento Kings veteran made an unsolicited phone call to the Journal-World late Monday night.

“Yes,” Pollard said, asked if he felt “betrayed” by 15th-year coach Williams, who cited his players past and present as reasons for staying at KU three years ago and not accepting the call of his alma mater.

“I am very upset,” Pollard said. “I feel the guy made the choice three years ago, and the reasons he gave three years ago have not changed. We’re still his family. I feel like selling my house out there and never coming back, but I won’t. I am coming back and keeping my house. If he thinks I’m going to North Carolina for an alumni reunion, it will not happen.”

Pollard, who attended high school in San Diego but now has an offseason home in Lawrence along with ex-Jayhawk Jacque Vaughn and others, said he had talked to several former teammates, but no fellow NBA players yet, who all feel the “same way.”

“I still love the guy,” Pollard said, “but I heard his press conference, and I think he should have just left three years ago. What has changed in three years? Before he said he’ll stay here and be Kansas coach until he retires or dies, whichever first. Now he’s leaving. It makes him look like a liar.

“He should have just left then. I think he probably thought he had a chance to win with Drew, Nick and Kirk. Now he’s leaving guys behind who have a chance to win, too, especially with the recruits he’s bringing in, if they still come.

“If I was them I would certainly try to get out of the letter of intent. If Roy left, I’d have left, too. He is the only reason I went to Kansas. Don’t make it sound like I hate him, I don’t, but I do not like his decision. Three years ago I would have respected it. The reasons he stated for staying, he started his own thing. He now looks bad and I am upset.”

Some are now calling Williams a phony.

“I don’t think Roy has it in his character to be a phony,” Pollard said. “I love and respect the man, but circumstances make him look like a liar. I don’t think he meant to be a liar or is a liar. But he said he considered us his kids and those of us who have kids, his grandkids. Yet now it’s time to leave?”