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Roy Williams: UNC is 'most investigated program in the history of college athletics'

Mark Dolejs / USA TODAY Sports

North Carolina head men's basketball coach Roy Williams isn't pulling any punches as he waits to learn the NCAA's allegations of misconduct against his program.

Williams addressed the matter and its effect on the program at his induction into the Western North Carolina Hall of Fame on Sunday.

"It would help if the NCAA would just tell us what the allegations are," Williams told the Citizen Times. "That would help because it would give us the information. It's been a hard process, and I know (there) has been quite a lot of negative recruiting going on and other things that don't make you very happy.

"But at the same time, we made some mistakes at our university, mistakes we are not proud of. And yet it has been so sensationalized, just off the charts about what has happened."

Williams added that he feels the Tar Heels missed out on some of the country's top recruits because the threat of sanctions loomed over the program.

"We're about the most investigated program in the history of college athletics," Williams said. "We had two internal investigations, former Governor (Jim) Martin did an investigation, then the Wainstein Report (from a) federal prosecutor, and now the NCAA.

"So they have all the information. There's no words they haven't seen, I can tell you that."

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