Williams retired today with 903 wins in 33 seasons as a head coach
To the bitter end, he was just like his mentor.
Roy Williams, as Dean Smith did before him, has walked away from the game he loved for reasons known only to them.
The young man who drove around North Carolina in a light-blue Mustang selling calendars to make ends meet will retire after 33 seasons as a head basketball coach, selling his brand of the game to young men dreaming of a better life.
Williams was more than a coach to his players. He was a father figure, a real-life success story who grew up largely without a father of his own. And like Smith before him, he leaves a game he changed in his own image, taking a school, a legion of basketball fans and the state of North Carolina itself on a journey that began in the tiny village of Biltmore and ended in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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