Another Side Of Dean Smith
Posted Feb 10, 2015
Nelvin Cooper once told me a pretty cool story about Dean Smith. I was a younger reporter finding my way around UNC and the other Triangle schools when I met Nelvin, he was someone I quickly got to know and like. He was a retired ACC basketball referee from the 1960s to the 80s assigned to area games to grade officials, and I marveled at his pre-game stories about coaches from Maryland's foot-stomping yeller Lefty Driesell to the comedy of NC State's Jim Valvano to the uniqueness of Smith.
(Tar Heel Illustrated)
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