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Going Home Again : Roy Williams, The North Carolina Tar Heels, And A Season To Remember by Adam Lucas; Roy Williams is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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'Roy Williams is awesome, baby, with a capital'A.''--Dick VitaleAs he traveled across the state of North Carolina in the summer of 2003, Roy Williams delivered a repetitive refrain to the thousands of University of North Carolina basketball fans who packed his public appearances:'Ol'Roy ain't that good.'Carolina fans didn't care to hear it, because they firmly believed that ol'Roy was, indeed, more than good--he was great. He was the prodigal son who served as Dean Smith's assistant coach, turned down the Carolina job in 2000, and finally accepted it in April of 2003. Williams became the Tar Heels's head coach after fifteen spectacular years at Kansas, and the immediate expectation was that he would find similar success in Chapel Hill, a once-proud program that had stumbled under former head coach Matt Doherty. But Williams knew something that it would take casual fans months to realize: Teaching the team of moody basketball players to play winning basketball would be about much more than simply what happened on the court. Williams had established a successful program at Kansas by connecting with the players he had recruited over their four-year careers. At Carolina, hehad less tha

Author

Adam Lucas; Roy Williams

Publisher

The Lyons Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461748892

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Anthropology