The night Roy Williams came back to Carolina, fans ran alongside his car like he was a member of a boy band.
For some reason, that memory came to mind on Friday night as Williams stood in front of 300 Tar Heel basketball lettermen in the Smith Center. That night the coach came back, April 14, 2003, we were excited. Still, it seemed a little overzealous to run beside his car as he pulled into the Smith Center, shouting, "Roy!" and pumping a fist.
But if we'd had any idea how incredibly good it would be, that just 15 years and three championships later the program would gather in the Smith Center and two of Williams' grandkids would pull the tarp unveiling his name painted on the court, all of us would have been running and shrieking.