Dear Coach Smith

Posted Feb 27, 2013
“The most important reason for all the success of Carolina basketball, and nothing else is close, is Dean Smith: what he stood for, the way he handled himself, the way he treated the people he surrounded himself with, the stance he took on social issues. There isn’t anything else that comes a close second.” So spoke Dean Smith’s long-time lieutenant Bill Guthridge in an interview back in 2001. (Inside Carolina)

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