TO THE EDITOR:
Our basketball team is in the middle of a pretty busy stretch right now. Three ACC games in eight days, including a trip up to Boston, is pretty intense stuff.
So it would be hard to blame Roy Williams if he wasn’t spending much time thinking about the rest of the Carolina athletics department right now.
Against that backdrop I was surprised and impressed to see coach Williams and his wife Wanda at our women’s basketball game against Florida State Thursday night, sitting in the middle of the stands, cheering on our team in a pretty run-of-the-mill, ACC home game.
They stayed until the end and Williams was great about signing autographs for the kids who asked for them.
On Saturday afternoon we wrapped up an intense overtime win over Virginia Tech at about 2:30 p.m. I was amazed barely four hours later to see coach Williams and his wife attending our baseball team’s preseason banquet, and staying until the very end of the event that didn’t end until almost 10 p.m.
Everyone knows that coach Williams has won two national championships for us, beat N.C. State more than 90 percent of the time, and returned us to having the preeminent basketball program in the country.
But what he doesn’t get enough credit for is what an amazing supporter of the entire Carolina athletic program he is.
You simply would not see a John Calipari or a Nick Saban or that coach up at Duke taking this kind of time during the middle of their seasons to be supportive of the other sports at their schools.
