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Article: More than a job ...(Here Below)(Roy Williams leaves Kansas to become basketball coach in North Carolina)(Brief Article)
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- Coach and Athletic Director
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- August 1, 2003
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We have mixed feelings about the kind of coaches who will jump their contracts at the drop of an extra coconut.
Is a coach entitled to anything he can get? Maybe so, but as a coach and role model isn't he required to exhibit a little restraint?
We wondered about all this during the North Carolina-Roy Williams-Kansas opera at the Final Four last April. Our first thought was that Williams was obfuscating about the North Carolina job, that he had definitely decided to take the job and was waiting for the right moment to confess.
As the opera played itself out, our thinking took a turn. We checked one voice against another and then a third and ...