HC Williams is a Tar Heel not a Jayhawk

I have to say that as I watched the last game of the weekend, between #1 Kansas and #10 Davidson, I had so many mixed emotions on who should win. David vs Goliath always comes to mind, doesn`t it? Head Coach Bill Self's team full of talent against the one man show of Stephen Curry. No matter which team got in, history would be made. Davidson would have been the first #10 to beat a #1 for a chance at the Final Four. Kansas would fill up the venue in San Antonio with all the top seeds, which has never happened.

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Whatever they might say, that is our HC and that is his team

But, in the end, the reason why I had chosen Davidson was simple. I knew, and did not want to see, the field day that the media was going to have with head coach Roy Williams going back to the place where he began coaching, and stayed for 15 years. It's fortunate that the players that had been recruited by Williams are all gone from Kansas, making that part of the story a non-issue. And speaking of ex recruits, for those of you that didn't know, David Padgett was a Kansas recruit who left when HC Williams did. As we all know he landed in Louisville and last weekend they faced one another. For those of you that didn't switch the television channel right away, you caught a glimpse of Roy Williams speaking to Padgett after the game.

But back to the rant blog I am doing about the HC and ex college. If you search around the Internet you will find some great quotes by both Roy Williams and his counterpart Bill Self, but this post of mine is to give my opinion on all of this. The people that think that Williams has feelings for Kansas, you are right. He spent 15 years there building it up, bringing it to Final Fours, giving it all he had to make the best of what was there. Coaching is not a 9 to 5 job, it is a full time, 24/7 career, where you have to leave all you have in order to be successful, and no one can deny that Roy Williams has been just that.

Having said that, Roy Williams is now back at North Carolina, coaching for his alma mater, basically re-attaching to the road paved by his mentor Dean Smith, the man who made the phone call to Kansas to get him that job. All of those things cannot be forgetten, they happened, they are part of our head coach's story. But the chapter we are in is with him being at UNC, with a fabulous team, that he has built! And for those that I have read saying "he still feels for Kansas" (not to mention other things I have read) I have one thing to say to all of you: count your blessings that we have the coach that we do!

Yes, Roy Williams shows emotions, he does it every game, with the way he coaches and he does it by being what most people in the trade call the best recruiter in the business. If he didn't show emotions he wouldn't be the coach he is, and what he has accomplished at North Carolina (and at Kansas) would not have happened. Now, I know the media will twist and turn it and find something to make out of nothing, but that's just the way it is. I will end with this, because it's what I feel, what I believe inside of me. Carolina might win or they might not on Saturday, that will be determined when the two teams square off. But if UNC were to lose it won't ever be because Roy Williams had feelings for Kansas and let the game slip away!