Dean Smith: 1931-2015
Posted Feb 9, 2015
Before discussing his career as one of the three greatest coaches in the history of college basketball, we must deal with one aspect of Dean Smith’s life that trumps all the championships, all the wins, and all the great players who came his way. The fact is that, when this country was finally forced through blood and witness to confront the great moral crisis that grew out of its original sin, Smith was a winter soldier of the first rank.
(Grantland)
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