Gene Corrigan, family man and pioneer, was a giant in college athletics

Posted Feb 1, 2020
Gene Corrigan was known to cut meetings short so he could go watch his grandkids play sports, sometimes in another state. And he was known to sit down coaches such as Dean Smith and Rick Barnes and read them the riot act. “I finally got invited to Gene’s house,” Barnes said after the meeting with Smith in Greensboro in 1995. “I don’t ever want to go back.” (Greensboro News & Record)

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