Turner's Take: It Was 20 Years Ago Today

Posted Oct 9, 2017
On October 9, 1997, I was 16 years old, a junior at Eastern Wayne High School in Goldsboro. I don't remember how I first found out that Dean Smith was going to announce his retirement. Maybe Coach Maurice Jackson, a UNC fan who constantly had the television on in his in-school suspension room, slipped in to class to tell me. But I know that I was, well, shaken. (Argyle Report)

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