roy williams was the coach for north carolina basketball.
roy williams was the coach for north carolina basketball.
who is the coach for north carolina basketball?
roy williams
bill guthridge decided to retire at the end of the 1999-2000 north carolina basketball season, on june 30, 2000. north carolina basketball staff interviewed roy williams for the head coaching job after guthridge's retirement. roy williams was mistakenly named as head coach by the "herald-sun" of durham, north carolina, before he could decide on the north carolina coaching job. roy williams decided to stay at kansas. other coaches, including john calipari, had interest in the coaching vacancy, but guthridge and smith insisted they were looking for a coach with ties to north carolina's basketball program. george karl, larry brown, eddie fogler, jeff lebo, and randy wiel, all north carolina basketball alumni, applied for the vacancy. karl, brown, and fogler later took their names out of consideration. dick baddour, then the athletic director of unc-chapel hill, was set on hiring doherty. doherty was named head coach of north carolina on july 11, 2000. doherty decided to take the job after a phone call with jordan earlier that day. jordan told doherty the north carolina coaching job might go to someone who didn't play or coach at north carolina.
matt doherty (basketball)
doherty asked if he could bring his own staff from notre dame with him to north carolina, a request greenlighted by north carolina's basketball staff. doherty brought his assistant coaches--doug wojcik, fred quartlebaum, and bob mackinnon—and his coordinator of basketball operations, david cason, with him from notre dame. doherty felt he was rewarding the loyalty of the people that worked with him at notre dame, and felt smith would have done the same thing. instead, smith and north carolina basketball staff at that time were upset doherty replaced guthridge's assistant coaches phil ford, dave hanners, and pat sullivan. ford, hanners, and sullivan not only played for north carolina (unlike doherty's notre dame coaching staff), they were also involved in recruiting players prior to doherty's arrival. doherty later felt he was misled by north carolina basketball staff. however, some coaches applauded doherty for retaining his notre dame coaching staff when he became north carolina's head coach. doherty also fired some of the front office staff that worked in the basketball office, a moved that shocked north carolina basketball staffers.
matt doherty (basketball)