Delvon Roe vs. Roy Williams

We mentioned this somewhere along the line, but in Roy Williams' new book, he calls out Delvon Roe, who chose MSU over UNC as a high school senior.

Seth Davis explains:

Did you catch the sharp elbow Roy Williams threw at Michigan State sophomore Delvon Roe in his new autobiography? Williams doesn't call out Roe by name, but he does tell a story about how he celebrated when a recruit told him he was coming to North Carolina, only to have that same recruit tell him six weeks later he was going to Michigan State. Williams wrote that the player -- who is obviously Roe -- "lied" to him. That should make for a nice little subplot when those teams have their national championship game reunion on December 1.

Keeping in mind that the Spartans and the Heels play each other tonight in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, a writer for the Lansing State Journal caught with Roe's father, Delvon Blanton, to get the player's side of the story (make sure you hit the link, a lot of good stuff over there):

Blanton said he and Roe visited North Carolina together once, then Roe went by himself on a visit for the UNC-Duke game. Blanton said Williams wanted Roe to commit before the game to get the team hyped. Roe called Blanton. Blanton strictly forbid him from committing. ...

"Delvon still loved Michigan State and a few weeks later, when he was home and he could think about the decision without someone in his face, he realized that's where he wanted to go."

Roe had a hard time summoning the courage to tell Williams, Blanton said. Blanton told him he had to make the call. He did, and Blanton said Williams started yelling on the other end.

"I don't know exactly the words he was saying, but he was upset," Blanton said of Williams. "He started going off on Delvon. I mean, Delvon's an 11th-grader, he's shook up. So I grabbed the phone and said, 'Let me tell you something, you never disrespect my son like that.'"

Adds an intriguing story line to the whole rematch-of-the-national-title-game play, doesn't it?