The Daily Tar Heel Dean Smith Commemorative Issue
The Daily Tar Heel Dean Smith Commemorative Issue
The Daily Tar Heel Dean Smith Commemorative Issue
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Dean Smith
1931-2015
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CANDLELIT REMEMBRANCE
A TRIBUTE TO GREATNESS
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KATIE WILLIAMS
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FROM THE HUGH MORTON COLLECTION, NORTH CAROLINA PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES, WILSON LIBRARY
ur basketball program at North Carolina certainly had a strong philosophy and mission, which produced extraordinary results over a long period of time, thanks to the
terrific players and people we attracted to our program. We believed in following a
process instead of dwelling on winning or worrying about consequences. We asked our players
to concern themselves only with things within their control, so our mission statement was: Play
hard, play smart, play together. We knew if we did those things, we would be successful a large
percentage of the time. We wanted the players focus and attention and tried to help them avoid
distractions. In addition to winning hundreds of games, our players graduated and went on
to great careers, and while at Chapel Hill they proved to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
when talented individuals sacrifice for the team, everybody wins.
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(From left to right) Suttons Drug Store, located at 159 E. Franklin St., put out a sign that reads, A leaders job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers sense of commitment.
Mourners brought notes, signs and flowers to the Dean E. Smith Center on Sunday. R&R Grill, located at 137 E. Franklin St., put out a sign in front of the restaurant that reads, We will miss you, Dean.
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Surrounded by former UNC basketball players, Dean Smith acknowledges a standing ovation from the crowd after
being honored during at the Dean E. Smith Center on Feb. 12, 2010. This was the 100th year of UNC basketball.
By Pat James
Assistant Sports Editor
1980s
Buzz Peterson
In 16 years as a head
coach, Peterson
coached Appalachian
State, Tulsa,
Tennessee, Coastal
Carolina and UNC-W.
1960s
Matt Doherty
Doherty coached at
UNC from 2000-03.
He also coached
at Notre Dame,
Florida Atlantic and
Southern Methodist.
879
WINS
17
13
ACC Tournament
championships
Doug Moe
Larry Brown
Billy Cunningham
Cunningham
coached in the NBA
for eight years and
is in the Naismith
Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame.
Jeff Lebo
Phil Ford
Ford served as an
assistant coach at
UNC from 19882000. He was also
an assistant coach in
the NBA.
Bill Guthridge
Eddie Fogler
Fogler became an
assistant under Smith
in 1971. He later
coached at Wichita
State, Vanderbilt and
South Carolina.
1970s
NCAA Championships
Roy Williams
ACC Coach of
the Year awards
1990s
Guthridge joined
Smiths staff in 1967
as an assistant. He
became UNCs head
coach when Smith
retired in 1997.
Scott Cherry
Cherry played at
UNC from 1989-93.
He is currently the
head coach at High
Point, where hes
been since 2009.
King Rice
George Karl
1930
Tony Shaver
Wiel served as an
assistant coach under
Smith from 1985-93.
He coached at UNCAsheville and Middle
Tennessee State.
1949
Smith graduates from
Topeka High School in 1949.
He goes on to attend the
University of Kansas on an
academic scholarship and
plays varsity basketball and
baseball for the Jayhawks.
1940
1948
Dean Smith goes to the principal of his
high school, Buck Weaver, and asks him
to integrate the black and white Topeka
High School basketball teams. The
teams merge after the 1948-49 season.
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Randy Wiel
1952
Smith is a member
of the Jayhawk
basketball team that
wins the NCAA title
under Kansas head
coach Phog Allen.
1950
1958
Smith joins the UNC coaching staff as an
assistant under head coach Frank McGuire.
He helps integrate a Chapel Hill restaurant
by asking to be served with a black friend.
Hubert Davis
Rasheed Wallace
Wallace played at
UNC from 1993-95.
He was an assistant
for the Detroit
Pistons during the
2013-14 season.
3 jerseys
1960
1965
Smith begins
instructing his
players to use
his famous
Four Corners
offensive
strategy.
1970
1966
At the urging of
his pastor, Smith
begins to recruit
black athletes to
his team. Smith
makes Charlie
Scott the first
black scholarship
athlete at North
Carolina in the
1966-67 season.
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WORTHY
JORDAN
52
23
Aug. 2, 1961
At 30 years old, Smith succeeds Frank McGuire as UNCs head
coach. UNCs 1961-62 season is Smiths only losing season. The
team finishes with an 8-9 record.
Dec. 2, 1961
UNC wins its first game with Smith as head coach. The Tar Heels
win 80-46 against the University of Virginia in Woollen Gym.
FORD
1976
Smith coaches the 1976 U.S. Olympic basketball
team to a gold medal at the Montreal Games.
1980
1983
Smith is inducted
into the Naismith
Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame in
Springfield, Mass.
1990
April 5, 1993
UNC defeats the University
of Michigan 77-71 for the
Tar Heels fourth national
championship, Smiths
second as head coach.
2000
January 1986
The Dean E. Smith Center opens at the University of North Carolina.
March 29, 1982
Freshman Michael Jordan hits
a jump shot with 17 seconds
left to defeat Georgetown
63-62 for the Tar Heels third
national championship title,
Smiths first as head coach.
2010
July 17, 2010
Smiths family
announces he
has a progressive
neurocognitive
disorder affecting his
memory.
Feb. 7, 2015
Dean Smith dies at
the age of 83.
2020
Opinion
EDITORIAL CARTOON
PETER VOGEL
KERN WILLIAMS
BRIAN VAUGHN
KIM HOANG
COLIN KANTOR
TREY FLOWERS
DINESH MCCOY
Guest columnist
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FEMINIST KILLJOY
Alice Wilder urges students to
support Project Dinah.
Tim Crothers
Thank
you,
Dean
Smith
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Remembrances of
Coach Dean Smith
Beyond basketball
Honor Dean Smith
with lasting efforts
for justice.
COLUMN
Robbie Harms
Senior Writer
Senior journalism major from
Port Orange, Fla.
Email: rharms93@gmail.com
TO THE EDITOR:
I met the man only once.
I tried to explain to him
that the day he retired, my
mother and I sat at our
kitchen table and cried. In
the telling, I began to tear
up. He took my hand, patted
it and told me how much he
appreciated the thought.
My earliest memory
from childhood is the win
over Georgetown My
house exploded in cheers;
the phone didnt stop ringing and my family was over
the moon. I feel like Ive
lost a family member.
Mary Shannon Thomas
Class of 10
TO THE EDITOR:
Theres a compelling
argument that Dean Smith
did more for the value of
my degree from UNC than
any other single person.
The basketball teams he
coached brought prestige
to the University, attracting an incalculable number
of students who might not
otherwise have applied,
making admission to UNC
extremely competitive. He
improved the social fabric
of Chapel Hill and North
Carolina in a way that wins
and losses could never
measure but which hoisted
the reputation of the school
to even greater heights.
While recent events
may have diminished
some of the intangible
values Coach Smiths work
attached to every degree
bestowed by UNC, this
much is certain: Dean
Smith is undiminished.
Leo J. Carmody Jr.
Class of 96
TO THE EDITOR:
Coach Smith was, by
all measures, a fantastic
coach, innovator and leader
of young men. But most
importantly, he always
stood up for what he considered to be right, especially
if it went against popular
opinion. He wasnt afraid to
ruffle feathers; racially integrating his team in 1966,
taking his players to meet
prison inmates to challenge
perspectives or advocating
against the death penalty
(and famously calling former Governor Jim Hunt a
murderer).
It is a mind-boggling
realization that there will be
freshmen at Carolina next
year who were born after
Coach Smith retired. As
such, it is our responsibility
to ensure that his impact
remains more than the
name on a stadium (after
all, he wanted it named
after the players: I never
scored a single point!).
Its our job to ruffle feathers now. We must carry on
Coach Smiths legacy and
seek out opportunities to
stand against injustice,
while staying humble in our
efforts. As Coach said, You
should never be proud of
doing the right thing. You
should just do whats right.
Thats the true meaning of
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Smith
fought for
his beliefs
Dean Smith was an outspoken
Democrat in North Carolina.
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Charlie Scott embraces former North Carolina coach Dean Smith, who was honored with the
Dr. James A. Naismith Good Sportsmanship Award on June 29, 2011 at Memorial Auditorium.
MCT/OLIVIER DOULIERY
Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Linnea Smith, wife of Dean Smith, on Nov. 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
And it worked.
That was never clearer than
in the 1982 ACC championship
game against Ralph Sampson and
Virginia. Up a point with 7:34 to
play in an era before the shot clock
existed, the Tar Heels held the ball
for seven minutes and six seconds to
preserve their eventual 47-45 win.
But it didnt last.
One of the greatest compliments
that I can give Coach Smith is that
he changes as the game changes,
said North Carolina womens basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell. When
the shot clock took away his four
corners, he adjusted.
Smiths creation was next-toimpossible to stop on the court. But
off the floor was a different matter.
During the 1985-86 season, college
basketball implemented a 45 second
shot clock that buried The Four
Corners for good. The days of holding
the ball for minutes on end were gone.
It was no longer possible to pass the
rock until the clock read zero.
Smiths legacy is more than one
system, even if that was where it all
began. Smiths legacy mirrored his
coaching career: an ever-changing,
evolving collaboration of moments
that collectively tell a story the story
of a coach, the story of a man.
Hell be on the Mount Rushmore
of college basketball, without a question. Not only his legacy as a winner
and a champion but as a champion
of social justice off the floor as
an innovator of the game, said Jay
Bilas, an ESPN analyst and former
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Mourners gather at 8 p.m. Sunday with candles, flowers and notes to place in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Students sang the alma mater after a moment of silence. Smith died Saturday night.
He would have
asked us to finish our
homework right now
because we have class
tomorrow He taught
us The Carolina Way.
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Level:
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Complete the grid
so each row, column
and 3-by-3 box (in
bold borders) contains
every digit 1 to 9.
Solution to
Fridays puzzle
A dental donation
The School of Dentistry
provided free dental
services for children. See
dailytarheel.com for story.
Liberty conference
The Young Americans
for Liberty held its state
conference Saturday. See
dailytarheel.com for story.
18 Bowlers target
22 Actor Cage, in tabloids
24 Austen heroine
25 Milkshake additive
26 Like Rubiks creation
27 Maine college town
28 Early risers hr.
30 1963 Paul Newman film
31 Dancer Astaire
32 Potato cutter
33 Bullwinkle, for one
35 Start-up cash
38 Nor. neighbor
39 Cut __: dance, in old
slang
40 Hick
45 1520 and 2015, e.g.:
Abbr.
10
A ready-made legacy
He wasnt ready.
So he called the one man who always was.
I called him the night before I went to Kansas
for the interview, a teary-eyed Roy Williams says
Sunday. And I said, Coach, are you sure you
want to do this? This is your school. Youre screwing them up here, telling them I can do the job.
Are you sure you want to do this to your school?
Of course he did. And on the other end of the
phone, the legendary Coach Dean Smith who
died Saturday night at 83 years old made that
clear to his protege.
You can do this job, Smith told Williams,
reassuring him about the Kansas head coaching
job. And youre going to be the best.
Roy Williams remembers that 1988 phone call
27 years later. It made all the difference for the
then 37-year-old, who was interviewing for his first
head coaching job after serving as Smiths assistant
at UNC for 10 years. He felt doubtful and needed
hope. He felt uneasy and needed Dean.
That was the man Dean Smith was, a man made
up of more than just statistics. Yes, he accrued 879
wins in 36 seasons for the most in college basketball
at the time of his retirement, 13 ACC Tournament
titles, 11 Final Fours, two national championships
and an Olympic gold medal.
But he was also a man who loved people; a coach
who yelled at you if you forgot to point to the passer
on the court, but remembered the names of your
family members, hometown and kids off of it.
Meet him once, and hed never forget. Enter
his circle, and hed never let go.
I told him one time I thought he was loyal to a
fault, Williams said. And he said that I shouldnt
use those two words in the same sentence.
***
She wasnt ready.
She had finally narrowed down her choices to
Gandhi and Dean Smith, and Dean had won.
Allison Hawkins was in the seventh grade at
her Brevard, N.C. middle school, and the assignment was to write a one-page essay on the historical figure of her choice. Both of her parents were
Tar Heels, and Dean just made sense.
But she didnt know her father would send
Dean a copy of her essay which was written
with Comic Sans font and clip art and so she
wasnt ready when North Carolinas basketball
office sent her a package a few weeks later.
I opened it up, and it was a letter from Coach