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GoHeels Exclusive: An Oral History Of The 1967-69 Tar Heels

by Pat James, GoHeels.com

Before the apprenticeship under Dean Smith, his first head-coaching job at Kansas or winning three national championships at North Carolina, Roy Williams doubted his college choice.

Inspired by Buddy Baldwin, his high school coach and mentor at T.C. Roberson High in Asheville, Williams hoped to pursue a career in coaching. So in the fall of 1968, he followed in Baldwin's footsteps and enrolled at UNC.

But just five weeks into school, Williams questioned the decision. Chapel Hill, he thought, might not be the place for him.