Restoration Project: Oral History of the Return of Roy Williams Posted Apr 14, 2020 Steve Kirschner got just a few minutes to prep Roy Williams. The news of Williams’s hire to UNC came through early afternoon and Kirschner had prepared all day for this moment—he helped set up a meeting with athletics director Dick Baddour to deliver the news and then got the players in the Smith Center practice gym ready for the press conference. (Inside Carolina)