UNC Basketball: Roy Williams still helps with recruiting

Legendary UNC Basketball head coach Roy Williams surprisingly made the announcement to retire in early April after another difficult season in Chapel Hill. After taking the job in 2003 and winning three national championships in that span, Williams decided that it was time to hang it up and enjoy life post-basketball.

But even the retired Williams still has his handprint on the basketball program at least for the past few months.

Williams talked to the Fayetteville Observer at the Wyndham Championship Pro-Am at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro and revealed that he still visits Chapel Hill and has a desk at the in the Dean E. Smith Center. The former coach is there a couple of times every few weeks and even helps with recruiting:

"But he’s been working as a quasi-ambassador, too: meeting with Hubert Davis’ basketball recruits and Mack Brown’s football recruits on request; helping three newly hired coaches adjust to UNC; making himself available to athletics director Bubba Cunningham and the fundraising staff at the Rams Club.“What I’m trying to do a couple days at least every other week is be in Chapel Hill,” Williams said."

It makes sense and is a bonus for the program to have the coach there to help with things around the program.

Even though Williams is retired, he’s still someone who will always be involved with the program and it can’t hurt to have him around. With the legacy that he’s put together, getting recruits in to meet with him from both the basketball and football programs does go a long way. He’s even built relationships with some of these recruits that have come in from his past on the recruiting trail.

A coach that’s seen it all and has had success is like an ace in your hand and so far, the Tar Heels appear to be using it.

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