Posted on 04/01/2021 10:30:19 AM PDT by deport
UNC announced this morning that basketball coach Roy Williams will be retiring after 18 seasons in Chapel Hill. Williams has coached 33 seasons in his career and won 903 games on his way to the Naismith Hall of Fame. There will be a press conference today at 4:00 pm ET.
Williams returned to his alma mater when the program was in, to put it nicely, shambles. He went on to lead the Tar Heels to three national championships in 2005, 2009, and 2017. Coach’s accolades go on for days, as you all know and don’t need me to remind you.
Last season was incredibly tough for everyone and college athletics were no exception to that. In the back of our minds, we probably knew this day was coming sooner or later but we all hoped that it would be later.
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Is it because he wants to spend time fishing, gardening etc or because the school is such a hot bed of insane wokeness that he can’t stand it any longer?
Maybe he wants to spend time with his family.
Is it because he wants to spend time fishing, gardening etc
or because the school is such a hot bed of insane wokeness
that he can’t stand it any longer?
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Good question. I have no idea but at some point people reach
a point where the time to move on has arrived. He’ll be missed.
I think Coach K isn’t far behind.
You maybe correct. Things change in sports just like things
change in the corporate ladder of business, gov’t, etc.
Maybe Roy just needs more time to look for all those Billy Donovan illegal recruiting tricks?? Hmmm...
He goes out with a 91-73 win over arch-rival Duke in his final game at the Dean Smith Center....Perfect exit as he knelt down and kissed the Tar Heel logo at center court when leaving the floor....
Look at the old guard this year: UNC, Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State, all non-factors.
I was a grad student at KU during Roy’s tenure. He was King at Lawrence. Before he left, students filled the football stadium to say goodbye.
He is a great coach. I wonder what role his top recruit entering the transfer portal, and others doing the same, had on his decision on retiring.
There are some reports that that 5-star recruit might want to transfer to Gonzaga. Problem for him is that Gonzaga already have at least two 4-5 star “bigs” already committed.
Also, the #1 recruit, Chad Holmgren, a 7’+ player is leaning toward Gonzaga. He is a very close friend of Gonzaga’s great freshman point guard Jalen Suggs, who will be a top-5 draft pick this year.
Gonzaga has also gotten the commitment from the top current high school point guard.
There is so a very highly recruited 7’4” stretch Chinese stretch forward who may want to Gonzaga.
Gonzaga has great coaches, a history in player development, the best culture, the most unselfish team, and puts players into the NBA or the top European leagues.
Some idiot reporter on ESPN suggested that some of the major schools with vacancies might hire Mark Few. There is no amount of money that would get Few to leave Gonzaga. He makes plenty of money now and has a great life. Why would he leave?
I think Kentucky’s BB program will not recover after this year. The truth is, Caligari has lived on recruiting one-and-dones. He doesn’t really develope players. On top of that, he is a first-rate A-hole.
How many of his players were in “enrolled” in that fake class the the jocks took at UNC. All college sports should be administered like Division III. No athletic scholarships. Just another overpaid government employee, like Dr. Fauci.
Sucks to be UNC. Where in the hell where they find a head coach who oversaw systemic athletic cheating but never knew a thing about it?
they will hire “within” so they don’t have to surprise the new coach with the no show classes and payoffs they’ve perfected over the years at “harvard of the south”
It’s UNC; the NCAA won’t do anything to penalize them.
“it because he wants to spend time fishing, gardening etc or because the school is such a hot bed of insane wokeness that he can’t stand it any longer?”
I doubt it. Roy is a woke POS himself.
Yup.
Scum bags.....
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