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He competed in one as a player at Kansas State in 1958, was an assistant coach at 11 before directing the Tar Heels at two as head coach. But more than just that team, Smith left behind a mound of questions. I would lean a little bit toward the side of Bill saying, Look, Im not on the front end of my career, its great to have done this, what a way to go out, Baddour says. That image of Guthridge is accurate but not complete. At the time, their run of 172 consecutive weeks in the AP Poll was the second-longest in college basketball history. Other opportunities had arisen over time, and yet Guthridge always remained as Smiths assistant. We easily could have won the championship, man, Ndiaye says. He spurned offers to interview for head coaching vacancies, preferring to remain out of the spotlight and continuing to team with Smith. The family told team spokesman Steve Kirschner that Guthridge died of heart failure and that the coach had lived with a heart condition the past seven years. When employees came to work at the GAA on a rainy day, Elizabeth Morgan, warm, Bill Guthridge, who made his college basketball reputation as Dean Smiths trusted right-hand man then took Carolina to two Final Fours in three years as head coach after his mentor retired has died after a long illness. In public, he was never going to be the center of attention. The complaints turned to praise after the teams unlikely Final Four appearance. The manager put down his stuff and rifled through his pockets. Former UNC Coach Bill Guthridge passed away last night at age 77 w/ family at his side. Ill really miss this next years team and what those guys have done for me, said Guthridge, whose team last season reached the Final Four before being eliminated in the semifinals. Hanners, one of Fords close friends to this day, recalls the natural coaching instincts Ford had when the two oversaw the JV team. He led his first team to the 1998 Final Four and had two players, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, selected in the top five . He was 77. His legacy and contributions to my life and to our University will live on and he'll be much more remembered for his sense of humor and class just as much as his coaching.". Only, given Guthridges age at the time (60) and the fact that hed always said hed retire when Smith did, Baddour wasnt totally sure Guthridge was interested. Guthridge did it all with a dry wit and style. That season, he led the Tar Heels to a 34-4 record and the final No. On one occasion, he actually accepted the head coaching post at Penn State, but stepped down from the post a few days later.[3]. Buffalo Brothers - 1/2 Price Appetizers 4:30pm-6:00pm Monday - Friday, Holliday: State and Carolina headed in different directions for the final two weeks, Brownlow: Angst will be at an all-time high as NC State hosts hated rival UNC, Holliday: Miami puts the Heels back on the bubble, Brownlow: NC State, Duke and UNC all seek to avoid two losses in a row as crunch time hits, Holliday: Pivotal road trips for NC State and Duke, Brownlow: Saturday's matchup marks the beginning of a new Carolina-Duke era, Holliday: Could this be Keatts' best ACC season? Of course, its not like UNC had a bad season in Guthridges first year. A Tar Heel passing him in the hallway might greet him with a quick head nod and a greeting of, Coach. Guthridge would invariably respond with a similar head nod and, Player.. Making the Final Four is a tremendous accomplishment but its not what you chase. Guthridge coached three years and took the Tar Heels to two Final Fours. While serving as an assistant coach, Guthridge turned down several head coaching opportunities, preferring to remain in Chapel Hill working alongside Smith. The school scheduled a news conference for 2:30 p.m. today. It wasnt until Oct. 3, 1997 a Friday about a week before the first practice of the season that Baddour got an indication that Smith wouldnt return. And for as much as he did enjoy those three seasons, the same obligations that wore Smith down got to Guthridge as well. After Coach Guthridge's retirement in 2003, he and Coach Smith stayed in close contact, visiting each other frequently. He was 77. Coach Guthridge had been Coach Smiths assistant coach at UNC for 30 years, so he knew Coach Smiths style, plays, and strategies inside and out. The possibilities were endless, but Baddour is certain of one thing: keeping things in the family was a must. When Smith retired as Division I's winningest men's coach shortly before the 1997-98 season, Guthridge was promoted to replace him, and he guided the Tar Heels to two Final Fours in three seasons. Later during that conversation, I suggested to Smith that he still had a lot of quality coaching mileage left and that maybe he should consider returning for an encore. He once told a newspaper he never left the program because the other 300 Division I head coaching jobs werent better than his job as an assistant. I wouldve never thought of that in a million years.. It was profoundly hard for Coach Guthridge to watch his lifetime friend become forgetful and lose the memories they shared together, not just as the architects of a fantastic and highly-ethical college basketball program, but as friends who regarded each other and their respective families as their own. Whatve you got to prove then?. The Kansas native took over the role of head coach following Smith's departure. You accomplished something that takes some other people 20-plus years to do. Then there are the other options from Smiths tree: Karl and Fogler and even Larry Brown. Guthridge was a player and then an assistant coach at Kansas State . How close did Raleigh come to getting an NFL team? "I'm not up with it," Guthridge said at one point, when he tried to remember taking over as UNC's head coach in 1997 after Smith retired. Recharge your batteries, they told him. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. #RIP, "It has been a trying time for the University of North Carolina basketball program over the past four months, and our thoughts and prayers are with them again today," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. He was 77 years old. He bought into everything. In that scenario, Williams never leaves Kansas and Ford probably never leaves North Carolina. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1997-98 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Atlanta Tipoff Club (Naismith Award), CBS/Chevrolet, the Columbus (Ohio) Touchdown Club and The Sporting News. "He was an unbelievable assistant to Coach Smith. He was instrumental in helping lure Williams back to North Carolina. The little doo-doos got him in the end, Hanners says. I was just happy that the team had success. Once he asked a manager, whose arms were full of equipment, if he had change for a quarter. (LogOut/ Our condolences go out to his family and friends.. I remember telling the chancellor that, Baddour says. The University of North Carolina has lost a dear friend, as haveI, andIknow that we will all miss him greatly., Im extremely saddened by the passing of Coach Guthridge, aka Coach Gut, especially coming so close to the loss of Coach Smith. Everybody would have loved Coach Ford to get the opportunity, Frederick says. I will miss his kindness and wisdom. Just like Smith, Guthridge found a way to impact his players beyond teaching them offensive and defensive principles. After Coach Guthridges retirement in 2003, he and Coach Smith stayed in close contact, visiting each other frequently. That's exactly what they did. Postseason invitational champion In five years on Winter's staff, Guthridge helped lead the Wildcats to a 9343 (.684) record, a pair of Big Eight Conference crowns, and the NCAA Final Four in 1964. Smith and Guthridge had long maintained they'd. Smith wrote in his memoir, A Coachs Life, that before he retired in 1997, he told recruits: If Im not coaching, I am confident that your coach will be either Bill Guthridge, Eddie Fogler, Roy Williams, Larry Brown, George Karl or Phil Ford, not necessarily in that order. Yeah, Id say that was more likely than unlikely., I wouldve gone to where I went two years later, he says. Had Smith made the logical move and coached on until his 70th birthday -- the route likely to be taken by Dukes Mike Krzyzewski (66) and Syracuses Jim Boeheim (68) -- he would have finished with at least 1,000 wins and possibly two more national titles. Or perhaps someone else from Smiths coaching tree, such as George Karl or Eddie Fogler? But looking back, Hanners now believes Guthridge already had an inclination something was afoot. The spring of 1997, it seemed, was no different. "You get old." Bill and Dean, friends for life Smith. Longtime North Carolina basketball coach Bill Guthridge died Tuesday night. He was my friend, a father figure, a big brother for me just like he was for so many players," current UNC coach Roy Williams said. Now Guthridge, 77, is enduring a similarly cruel fate . In 1998, the Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professorship in mathematics was established. Case in point. Bill Guthridge is best known in Chapel Hill as an assistant coach to Dean Smith, but that isn't the complete picture of the legendary coach. Only different alternate realities. Guthridge retired after the season, having spent the first 43 years of his adult life as a player, high school coach, and college coach. Current coach Roy Williams referenced Smith's death, which occurred on Feb. 7 of this year, when commenting onGuthridge, via Andrew Carter of theCharlotte Observer: Here's Roy. My time is in the past now and we have to move forward.. That possibility isnt one Baddour had previously considered. Following his stint at Kansas State, Guthridge moved to North Carolina to join the staff of fellow Kansas native Dean Smith. One of the things that made (Smith) so special was his ability to be innovative so certainly, I think we would have had some other ways to attack in a game that we struggled, against Utah in the Final Four.. In our prayers. 2023 Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. 08/08: Dean Smith to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom, 06/29/2011: Smith, Coach K, Yow honored by Naismith, 10/21/2008: UNC's Smith to receive Lapchick Character Award, 02/18/2008: ACC To Honor Dean Smith, Lorenzo Charles, other Greats, Bio Jobs Hub: Find a great-paying job that changes lives, even yours. It left at 1:57 p.m. His reasoning? Baddour and Smith never had a lengthy sitdown to discuss the future. With Williams, it was the restoration of the family, three national championships and potentially many more years. 2 "The End of Absence" Michael Harris, Pt. Really, a championship or not is the only major differentiator between Smith and Guthridge. The only people who came to know about that line of succession, so to speak, were Baddour, Smith, Guthridge and then-chancellor Michael Hooker, who expressed some concerns about Guthridges age early on. He's a native of Raleigh, N.C. Guthridge led UNC to the Final Four in his first season, but the team fell short of a championship. From 1972 onward, he was Smith's top assistant. After that loss, Carter and Jamison turned pro. The team performs dazzling spins and flips at campus events and even competes against other universities and jump rope clubs from around the country. And he said, Im not crying because we won. But there was no questioning the depth of their relationship. Guthridge, who like Smith was a Kansas native, spent 30 years as an assistant coach and had ample opportunities to leave Chapel Hill and become the coach of his own program. Bill Guthridge, who made his college basketball reputation as Dean Smith's trusted right-hand man then took Carolina to two Final Fours in three years as head coach after his mentor retired has died after a long illness. Showdown in Durham: NC State and Duke battle for ACC, NCAA seeding, Brownlow: NC State, Duke and Carolina all look to avenge ACC losses on busy basketball Saturday, Welter: I'm not mad, Carolina, just disappointed, AP source: Panthers to meet with QB Derek Carr at combine. The 1971-72 Tar Heels had finished 26-5 but were upset by Florida State (not an ACC member at the time) in the NCAA Final Four semifinals. . Sad news. Williams famously turned him down, opting to remain at Kansas, where hed built a Carolina-esque family dynamic (at Smiths alma mater, to boot). All rights reserved. The picture most Tar Heel fans will have of him is sitting slightly behind Dean Smith, perhaps leaning over to make a point to the head coach. He would, however, have just lost his three best players at Kansas in Paul Pierce, Raef LaFrentz and Billy Thomas. Hed have retired with a championship trophy, and then let someone else step right in, Ndiaye says. "When Coach Smith announced he was retiring and that Coach Guthridge was taking over, then it all clicked into place for me," Hanners says. Guthridge also handled many day-to-day responsibilities in the program and oversaw UNC's summer basketball camps. "Because I knew Coach Guthridge had the best interest for you and wanted to see you succeed.". Calhoun, elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, is . Heck, he might still be the coach at North Carolina. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. But obviously, the better head coach -- one of four or so best head coaches of all time in his sport -- and the decision to retire was seriously flawed by emotion. Bill Guthridge was consistently portrayed as a quiet gentleman. Conference regular season champion In his first year as head coach, he led the the team . As good a person as I ever met. Which 16 teams should you buy or fade ahead of March Madness? North Carolina made 29 NCAA tournament appearances in Guthridge's 33 years on the staff and finished no worse than third in the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season standings every year -- with 16 first-place finishes and 10 more in second. After Smith retired in October 1997, then-athletic director Dick Baddour elevated Guthridge to the top job. You wouldnt think that would work, but it did. Its one game, Jamison says. With a wealth of returning talent, Guthridge instituted a "six starters" system, whereby the team's top six players, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Shammond Williams, Ademola Okulaja, and Makhtar N'Diaye rotated positions in the starting five. In 2000, the Tar Heels struggled in the regular season, falling out of the polls for the first time since the start of the 199091 season. He said to me, I have felt this way before, but in the early fall, Ive always gotten the energy back, and I expect that thats gonna happen, but I do want to alert you to the possibility that it might not. Whether or not deep down inside he thought that energy wouldnt come back, I dont know the answer to that. In fact, Guthridge has been involved with 13 teams which have reached the Final Four-as a player at Kansas State in 1958, as an assistant coach with the Wildcats in 1964, as a Tar Heel assistant coach in 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995 and 1997, and as UNC's head coach in 1998.. Did Musselman coach in the NBA? He still had four seasons remaining on his contract, enough to carry him to the summer of 2001. In his three seasons as head coach Guthridge led the Tar Heels to the NCAA final Four twice, in 1998 and again in 2000. When Bill Guthridge retired as North Carolina's basketball coach in the summer of 2000, it set off a chain reaction that touched the lives of dozens of people in his profession. End of conversation.. He was a father figure.". The death of Guthridges mother, Betty, 96, two days before the Tar Heels played Tennessee at Knoxville in the NCAA South Regional semifinals also contributed to a difficult season. Lets say youve got a 35-year-old guy. Theres no way you could dream, Hanners says, anyone would necessarily do better.. In 1998, Guthridge inherited a team that had been to the 1997 Final Four the previous year under Smith. Although his individual achievements showcased his ability as a head coach, Guthridge always seemed content working with Smith to develop a top program at North Carolina. He will certainly be remembered for what he did as opposed to what else he might have done. Only in Chapel Hill would a two-time Final Four coach, an Atlantic Coast Conference champion, and a consensus National Coach of the Year award winner be best known as an assistant. After a three-year disastrous tenure under Doherty, the University of North Carolina hired Roy Williams from Kansas and got the leadership and gravitas that had characterized the UNC basketball program under Coach Smith and Coach Guthridge. When Coach Smith died, Coach Guthridge knew that his friend was gone, but he quickly moved back to their time together when they were younger and dementia had not knocked on their doors yet. Just a really good man who made Carolina, the ACC and college basketball better.. But when Guthridge retired, Williamsthen playing with the Seattle Sonicsmade the effort to find a commercial flight to Chapel Hill, then flew out again as soon as the press conference was over. ", Roy: "I think that not only did he coach me on the freshman team he was another mentor. Hed have been two years into a rebuild at Notre Dame, and perhaps less reluctant to leave. And as the confetti fell on UNCs first title A.D. After Dean Guthridge burst into tears alongside his former players. Guthridge was involved in a total of fourteen Final Fours as either a player or coach, more than any other person in historyone each as a player and assistant at Kansas State, ten as a North Carolina assistant, and two as North Carolina head coach. That team reached the Final Four and almost reached the title game even though Jamison and Williams missed 22 field-goal attempts in a 65-59 semifinal loss to Utah. That was quelled, but the chancellor had another thought: To the chancellor and many fans Williams was the obvious choice to succeed Smith. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. He also was an assistant to Smith on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team that won the gold medal in Montreal. Some fans criticized Guthridge last season when the Tar Heels went through a four-game losing streak in January and entered the post-season with 13 losses. Chapel Hill, N.C. For all of his wins and championships, the Olympic gold medal, tactical innovations, social impact and fertile coaching tree, Dean Smiths unselfishness defined his career to an enormous, but often overlooked, extent. Smith, who attended Guthridges retirement announcement, called the day a celebration of a fantastic career. But if Williams had said no, as he did two years later, would Ford have been tapped for the job then? Perhaps, at last, somewhere in his mind, Coach Guthridge finally made the decision it was time for him to retire from this physical life. And then Bill can decide along the way what he wants to do.. He took the team to the NCAA final Four twice and was named national coach of the year in 1998, before retiring in 2000.[1]. When Roy Williams declined the opportunity to be Carolinas head coach in 2000, he had to mend more hurt feelings with Guthridge than with Smith. Student-run Chapel Thrill Escapes brings its newest escape room to life Rameses in Wonderland continuing to provide an outlet for student creativity, entrepreneurship and collaboration on Carolina's campus. In other words, why Smith walked away at the exact moment he did. If my answer was no, then Roy wouldve had absolutely zero interest. The next season, North Carolina earned a #3 seed in the West regional of the NCAA tournament, but was upset in the first round by Weber State in a late game in Seattle. And althoug he believes that scenario puts more emphasis on winning than it does on building relationships and teaching the things Guthridge and Smith both loved its not out of the question. The Tar Heels either won the ACC tournament or finished atop the league standings -- or did both -- in 23 of those seasons. "From cultivating a global mindset across campus to partnering with researchers across the world, we make connections that strengthen our state and establish Carolina as a leading global public research university.". People could misinterpret 2 p.m.perhaps it really meant 1:45, or maybe 2:15. Ndiaye remembers taking his son for a campus tour years later, and Guthridge coming out of the Smith Center to greet him. We didnt play well for just five minutes, and that decided the game.. It didnt bother me that I was a lousy coach, and when we started winning I was a better coach. When Lefty Driesell declined to shake Smiths hand in the mid-1980s, it was Guthridge who was incensedand had to be prevented from chasing down Driesellnot Smith. I enjoyed my 30 years as an assistant coach, and Ive enjoyed my three years as a head coach.. The inconsistent season came on the heels of a first-round NCAA Tournament loss in 1999. 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