You made the wrong move, Roy.

On behalf of the rest of the Big 12, thank you.

Opposing coaches in this Midwestern league won’t have to worry about Roy Williams strolling the sideline next season unless they take on North Carolina, because he’s not in Kansas anymore.

And everyone knew it was coming. How could he resist it, everyone said.

You’re a great coach and a classy guy, Mr. Williams, but North Carolina is not your fit.

There is no denying North Carolina has a talented basketball team. It would take a long, hard search to find someone to say Raymond Felton and Rashad McCants aren’t legitimate players, because they are.

But if Williams is looking for that elusive national title in the Carolina hills, he may as well be looking for Toto.

At North Carolina, Williams will get to know guys like Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and Maryland’s Gary Williams well. Neither of their teams won the ACC last year, so besides that, he’ll have a feisty Wake Forest team attempting to defend their title on his hands as well.

Those factors will keep him away from a conference championship. It may even keep him out of the NCAA tournament.

I’m sticking with Roy Williams failing at North Carolina. I’m not talking 0-22 next season. I’m just saying he will disappoint many Tar Heel fans with his team’s performance.

How could he not? He’s set up for failure.

The expectations are so high at North Carolina right now that many are expecting immediate greatness from Williams. If that happens, it will most definitely have to come after he starts feeling comfortable with the players.

One week ago, most of the North Carolina players hadn’t met Williams. Now, he’s in charge of them. It’s like walking into work and being greeted by a new boss you’ve never spoken to.

Maybe it won’t be hard for Williams to fit in, but it surely won’t be easy.

So after he gets to know who he’s coaching, is a conference championship knocking on the door? Nope.

There will be a different coaching style in place, a different mentality and changes in most of the facets of Carolina basketball. And all those young men are going to be in transition for a long time. Maybe one season, maybe three seasons. Whatever the length, it’s a certainty that it will take time.

In the six years since the retirement of Dean Smith, the legendary Carolina coach who amassed 879 wins in 36 years at the school, the fan base has been antsy to get back in the national spotlight. Things just weren’t the same with Bill Guthridge and Matt Doherty leading the team. The fans wanted both of those men to be the next Dean Smith.

Now they want Roy Williams to be the next Dean Smith. Nobody can do that.

Sure, that is what everybody wants — the fairy tale to come true when a man who followed his roots reaches his lifelong goal. Most people would like to see Williams go in there, teach them all a little thing called “discipline,” like he promised in his press conference, and take them all the way to the title next season.

It’s not going to happen, because the perfect little ending is often delayed.

Williams took Kansas to the NCAA tournament 14 consecutive times when most of the country’s teams are just dreaming for a berth in the Big Dance. He just took the Jayhawks to Final Four for the fourth time and the second in a row.

Why would he want to leave?

After meeting with Smith, who helped Williams get his start as an assistant at North Carolina, it would have taken a miracle for Williams to turn down the Tar Heels.

Just picture yourself getting asked by the best in business to be their replacement.

At Kansas, Williams was going to lose All-Americans Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich. Combine that with your idol calling your name and it may have seemed like the right move to make.

It wasn’t.

But regardless of what happens in the future, everyone knows Williams will stand behind his decision and not second guess it, because that’s what people do, they roll with the punches.

But feelings inside don’t roll, and next season they’ll be rolling like a square-shaped tire.

And three years from now, Roy, when your team is still not the best in the state — let alone the best in the country — you’ll realize your emotions got the best of you.