Yesterday’s announcement that Roy Williams would be retiring after 18 seasons in Chapel Hill sent shockwaves through all of sports. All of us were aware that Williams wasn’t getting any younger, and he’d battled his fair share of health issues in the last several years. Still, we all hoped that Roy would be able to ride off into the sunset in some fairy tale way befitting the man who had done so much for the University of North Carolina.
Unfortunately, the end of the fairy tale was unsatisfactory. The Tar Heels exited the NCAA Tournament after the first game for the first time under Williams, and Williams decided shortly thereafter that it was time for someone else to give it a try.