Advertisement

Roy Williams had interesting retort to Doug Gottlieb's speculation

Roy Williams had interesting retort to Doug Gottlieb's speculation

It's not often a coach calls reporters back into a press conference when it has ended, but when it happens, you generally know something interesting is coming.

And that is just what happened Saturday after North Carolina coach Roy Williams initially ended his postgame remarks after demolishing No. 11 Miami 96-71. Williams returned to the microphone to take aim at CBS Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb. Williams was told that Gottlieb had speculated pregame that he would retire at the end of this season and would be replaced at UNC by assistant coach Hubert Davis.

[Yahoo Tourney Pick’em is open. Sign up now and play for $50K]

"Supposedly Doug gottlieb said that I was going to retire and Hubert was going to replace me," Williams began. "That's sinful, sinful. You have no frickin idea what you're talking about.

"That's a guy who said that who couldn't put his damn pants on the right way when he was playing at Oklahoma State. The Kansas crowd was great, 'Shorts on backwards, shorts on backwards.' And Doug, I like Doug, but that's not journalism. Don't make up crap."

Chances are this is a misunderstanding. It certainly appeared so from Gottlieb's perspective on Twitter.

[Derek Willis' emergence has been key to Kentucky's resurgence]

Williams talking about Gottlieb not being able to put his pants on correctly was a reference to something that actually happened when Gottlieb was a player at Oklahoma State during a road game at Kansas. Gottlieb didn't shy away from that part either.

>

[Kyle Ringo is the assistant editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at kyle.ringo@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!