UNC coaching search looms over Final Four — ask Kansas how that goes
When UNC basketball is hiring, never say never. Even at the Final Four.
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. 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.
If we’ve learned one thing in the more than two decades since then, it’s to never say never when it comes to these situations, and that a coach’s loyalty is the underdog when matched up against his ego. Now here we are at another Final Four , and UNC’s hiring, and it’s déjà vu, with stay-or-go questions hovering over the coaches of the two favored teams in Indianapolis . Tommy Lloyd fuels speculation about UNC job This time, nobody’s writing there’s “no way” Tommy Lloyd would leave Arizona for UNC .
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