It’s not often that people fire back at Coach K — his nose is quite terrifying — but Roy Williams is showing he’s far from afraid at his ripe age.

Coach K made a comment the other day about how “other team’s handle their injury reports,” a remark Roy Williams felt was aimed at UNC and the way he’s handled Ty Lawson’s ankle injury. Well, it ruffled Roy’s feathers, and he isn’t going to take it.

“It’s not like I’m getting a dadgum plane and flying it around to say, ‘Roy fell against a wall and banged his nose’ or anything,” Williams said in a news conference. “We have to do those things [talk about injuries] and everybody’s hurt. But there’s different stages of being hurt.

“If you’re hurt and missing games, that’s not exactly like having a hangnail. And so we do have some people that are getting hurt and missing games. I don’t think that somebody should say we’re putting it in front of the public.”

“I said before we played Duke it’s impossible to have any more respect than I do for Mike,” Williams said, “but I felt like that comment was aimed towards us.”

It doesn’t have the cheap shots I would hope for when calling one out, but it does heighten the rivalry a bit. Now students will line up 10 weeks in advance for the big game.