We did OK."įan speculation has already turned to who will replace Williams. "In some ways, I'm very sad and as I said, I'm scared. "I don't know what the future holds" he said. The sense that he was no longer the best coach for Carolina. Williams repeated that sentiment throughout the one-hour press conference. But I no longer feel that I am the right man." And I am scared to death of the next phase. He and his wife Wanda, UNC-Chapel Hill Class of 1972, raised two Carolina grads, and just a few weeks ago gave $3 million to the school, for academic scholarships.Īt his retirement press conference on Thursday, Williams cited a long list of coaching decisions he called his "failures" over the past two seasons, and said he had come to the decision that he was no longer the "right man" for the job. "I could give a s**t about North Carolina right now."Ī few weeks later, a calmer Williams announced he was coming home to Chapel Hill. "I gotta think that in tough times that people should be more sensitive," he said, clearly agitated with Bernstein's question. Three years later, UNC fired Matt Doherty, and the North Carolina head coaching job was open again.ĬBS reporter Bonnie Bernstein asked Williams about it mere moments after Kansas lost the national championship game. Williams visited campus, talked to Smith, and eventually turned the job down. ![]() Williams came to Carolina as an undersized hard-working teenager from a single-parent household in Asheville, and rose from student assistant to assistant coach, selling team calendars in the summer to supplement his then-middling coaching salary.Īfter a highly successful stint as a head coach at Kansas, he was everyone's first choice to replace Smith when he retired as Carolina's coach in 2000. ![]() Roy Williams may have been the most unlikely of those success stories, but with his retirement announcement on Thursday, there is no doubt he leaves the scene as the most Tar Heel of all Tar Heels. News & Observer via State Library of NC Michael Jordan, as a UNC freshman, launches the winning shot against the Georgetown Hoyas in the 1982 NCAA championship game in New Orleans.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |