Williams' long-ago decision set career path
Posted Apr 4, 2009
It seemed like a no-brainer at the time, leaving a small high school job to fulfill your dream of becoming a college basketball coach, working with one of the game's legends at your alma mater. But for Roy Williams, it was a difficult decision to leave Owen High in 1978 — the same kind of agonizing choice that would be played out so publicly later in his career on two occasions when he once again pondered a job offer from the University of North Carolina.
(Asheville Citizen-Times)
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