Getting to know Coach Rob

Posted Jan 30, 2014
Wanda Williams thought her husband was moving a tad fast back in 1988 when he told her he was hiring some assistant coach from Cornell named Steve Robinson to fill out his first staff at Kansas. "'But you just met him,''' Roy Williams remembers her telling him. "'Are you sure?'" More than a quarter-decade later, the UNC coach calls the choice "the best decision I've ever made in a 24-hour period." (GoHeels.com)

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