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4-14-03: Roy Williams to be announced as next men's basketball coach at a press conference tentatively scheduled for Tuesday at 3:30pm.

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All I can say is I HOPE.

 

Man, I hope thats true. Baddour's ass is tied to this signing IMO. If he gets Roy he will have subtracted a problem and added a Hall of Fame coach to replace him.

Else, we are fucked at Carolina cause I don't think Brown is the guy for a lot of reasons and Karl and all the other candidates have been question marks.

We need Roy more than Roy need us atp.

 

Rumors are running rampant.

 

find us some and bring them back here

 

Tarheeltalk.com has some good sources then since he said at noon their time he hadn't decided.

Williams hopes to announce decision today
Lawrence Journal-World Staff Reports
Monday, April 14, 2003, 1:24 EDT

As of noon today, Roy Williams hadn't decided whether to leave after 15 years as Kansas University's men's basketball coach or go to North Carolina.

As he left Allen Fieldhouse about noon, Williams was met by a group of media and asked if he would announce his decision today.

"I hope so," he said. "I'm sorry you guys have to do this, too."

Then he walked to his car and drove away.

Williams arrived in Lawrence during the wee hours this morning after spending the weekend in Los Angeles where he accepted the John Wooden Legends of Coaching Award.

While in L.A. he was a house guest of businessman and KU benefactor Dana Anderson and his wife Sue.

"I know he's agonizing terribly," Anderson said this morning. "He gets tears in his eyes when he talks about it."

Anderson saw Williams, his wife Wanda and daughter Kimberly off late Sunday night.

"I got the impression he was still on the fence," Anderson said. "He said it was harder this time than it was last time and he didn't think anything could have been harder than that."

Williams flirted with returning to his alma mater in 2000, but opted to remain at Kansas. Williams is expected to reveal his decision either later today or Tuesday morning.

 

thanks for the news HP... I just want to get this all over with... IMO Roy needs to decide... we waited long enough last time for nothing... just say yes or no so we can either start getting all the recruits into camp or start looking for another coach

 

THT was correct early on about Coach Doh's departure. But they were saying it was a done deal last Friday too.

Did he want to go to LA and go to the team banquet this week as a Kansas coach or does he really plan on staying? Regardless, the dominoes are getting ready to fall across the country.

 

I don't think Roy is coming. Sad but true. We are gonna be looking for a coach for quite a while in my opinion. This sucks.

 

you sound like Dick Vitale... I'll explain...

 

http://espn.go.com/dickvitale/vcolumn030414RoyWilliams-UNC.html

Which Roy Williams-UNC scenario will play out?
By Dick Vitale

April 14
All the speculation around Kansas coach Roy Williams and the North Carolina coaching vacancy continues to swirl. The soap opera involving the Tar Heels replacement for Matt Doherty should play out in the next few days.

Here are two possible scenarios.

The first scenario is that Williams did not want to accept the position from North Carolina prior to attending the John Wooden Award ceremony with Jayhawks star Nick Collison on Saturday in Los Angeles.

Williams, a former assistant to legendary UNC coach Dean Smith, also received the John Wooden Legends of Coaching Award on Saturday. He was obviously on Cloud Nine upon receiving this prestigious award. The incredible list of previous winners includes Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Arizona's Lute Olson.

Anytime you get a trophy with Coach Wooden's name on it, you know it's special.

Some believe that Williams wouldn't have felt comfortable at the event -- with a number of Kansas administrators, friends and Collison -- if he had already accepted the Carolina job.

So out of respect, this theory goes, he put off North Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour until the ceremonies were completed.

There's no doubt that Williams is the first choice in Chapel Hill. Any talk about other candidates is simply window dressing. The man the Tar Heels want is Williams; just check out his 15-year record at Kansas -- 418 wins and four Final Fours -- or his 10 seasons as an assistant at North Carolina under Smith.

On Monday, does he call a team meeting at Kansas and tell his players of his decision to leave? Does he call his recruits and tell them he's leaving Lawrence? Williams' recruiting class is rated as one of the top five in America. Does he return to his roots? He's from Asheville, North Carolina.

Then there's the second scenario. He returns from the West Coast, and all his love, feeling and loyalty for so many people in Kansas gets the best of him and he decides to stay put. That's what happened three years ago before Carolina wound up hiring Doherty, and it won't be easy to call a bunch of kids he recruited hard to wear the Kansas uniform and tell them he won't be their coach.

When McDonald's All-American David Padgett committed to Kansas, he said his second choice was North Carolina, and that Williams was the reason he chose the Jayhawks. How do you call that youngster you won't be part of his life when you made that commitment and he did the same.

I've said many times that if a coach moves on to take another position, a recruit should be able to go elsewhere. If the new coach can re-recruit him and convince him to stay, that's fine. But if the recruit is uncomfortable with the new coach, he should be allowed to go anywhere except to the school that hired the former coach away from that institution (to avoid package deals). The player couldn't follow the original coach, and he shouldn't lose a year waiting.

Under current NCAA rules, if Williams left Kansas, those four recruits would have to sit out a year if they transferred (though they could still play for four years). It's sad, because coaches move on to new deals, country club setups, and all sorts of goodies. But the player gets penalized -- and someone has to explain how that's fair.

At Wake Forest, coach Skip Prosser found it difficult to say yes to Pittsburgh after meeting with the Demon Deacon players. He stayed in the ACC and said "no" to the Panthers. The Wake players made it clear they wanted him to stay. That's also the message to Williams out of Lawrence from returning players like Keith Langford, Aaron Miles, Wayne Simien and Jeff Graves.

So which scenario will win out? Is Williams going to North Carolina or staying in Kansas?

Williams is emotional and caring, a loyal guy who is torn between two of the marquee programs in the sport. Does he go back to Dean Smith and Tar Heel blue, or does he stay with Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk? We should know sometime this week.