UNC’s Final Four Dream Threatened by Coaching Crisis — Kansas Knows the High Stakes All Too Well
North Carolina needed a basketball coach, and it set its sights on one in the Final Four.
Its top target had a good job. A darn good one, and one newspaper columnist felt adamant Roy Williams wouldn’t leave Kansas, even if his alma mater tried to call him home to Carolina. Williams already turned down UNC once before, a few years previously.
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No way Roy’s going to Carolina.
So read the headline of Joe Posnanski’s column in the Kansas City Star on April 2, 2003. Two weeks later, Posnanski wrote another column about how he got it all wrong. He trusted a coach to have loyalty. Whoops, rookie mistake.


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