We have to stop meeting like this
North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams was watching a high school recruit's basketball game earlier this week when he ran into a coaching friend who was also checking out a recruit in the same game. The friend was Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer, a football coach once wooed by UNC.
"His player wasn't as good at basketball as my player was, without question," Williams said Thursday. "But I'm guessing the player I was watching wasn't as good at football as the one he was watching."
Beamer and Williams first met at a speaking engagement in Hilton Head, where they shared laughs over golf and a shrimp dinner. Billy Hite, a classmate of Williams' at UNC, is on Beamer's coaching staff.
Sunday, Williams will coach his first game in Blacksburg. Beamer warned him that Hokie fans are fired up about their first-ever ACC game. The fifth-ranked Heels take a seven-game winning streak to Tech, which has already suffered a loss to VMI.
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