Guthridge said a few weeks ago he planned to stay another five or six years despite intense criticism from fans and alumni after the teams worst regular-season record in decades. He has a keen sense of which ones will be very good players and which ones may be overrated. But I already had a better job than that and I was happy here. The little doo-doos, Smith called them, the administrative tasks just within the purview of his job responsibilities. "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. A tremendously loyal person with an ego that was seemingly non-existent. Following the 199798 season, several organizations named him National Coach of the Year and he received the Naismith College Coach of the Year award. I think its time I make this decision. But there was no questioning the depth of their relationship. After graduating from Kansas State, he coached at Scott City High School in Kansas for two seasons before returning to his alma mater as an assistant coach for Tex Winter from 19621967. 2 "The End of Absence" Michael Harris, Pt. In 1976, he also served as an assistant coach to Smith as the United States won the gold medal in men's basketball at the Summer Olympics in Montreal. Guthridge didn't bother to recruit Jason Williams, conceding him to K, even though Jason reportedly had an interest in UNC. Coach Smith began showing signs of cognitive impairment before Coach Guthridge did. Hanners, one of Fords close friends to this day, recalls the natural coaching instincts Ford had when the two oversaw the JV team. You will be missed. How would his retirement alter the short- and long-term trajectory of a program built on consistency? But part of me, at the end of the day, thinks Coach Williams was destined to end up back here. We offer our deepest sympathies to Bills family, friends and the entire North Carolina basketball community.. What Smith left behind was arguably the most talented team hed ever assembled: a pair of future NBA All-Stars, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison; the programs all-time assists leader, point guard Ed Cota; a lights-out shooter, Shammond Williams; a frontcourt enforcer, Makhtar Ndiaye; and much more. In Williams second season in Chapel Hill, he won his first national championship the one the 97 team witnessed. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. 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. Of course, its not like UNC had a bad season in Guthridges first year. After those brief flirtations with head coaching positions, Guthridge settled in as UNC's top assistant, right up until Dean Smith suddenly retired in October of 1997. The announcement came nearly two months after the 6-10 center led the Boston . 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He was extremely special, important to every player, every coach who ever worked here. A source close to the basketball program, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Thursday that Guthridge recently decided he did not have the energy to continue coaching the Tar Heels. 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. But theres another alternate history with extreme on-court implications that might have forced his hand. Whats best for the players future has to come first, Smith said of the way he dealt with McAdoo, who became the second overall pick the in 72 NBA draft. Ndiaye even tried cracking the ice by joking that Guthridges years as head coach probably hadnt hurt his wallet. How might everything be different? In 1998, Guthridge inherited a team that had been to the 1997 Final Four the previous year under Smith. That includes two as a head coach at Carolina, 10 as a Tar Heel assistant coach and one each as a player and assistant coach at his alma mater, Kansas State. Having grown up in North Carolina and gone to school here and worked here, I think it was probably just destiny.. "We'd always say there were so many time zones -- Eastern Standard Time, Central Standard Time -- but the most important was GST: Guthridge Standard Time," Peterson said. I talk to Coach Williams all the time, and I asked him, Whats the best advice Coach Smith ever gave you? And he said, Antawn, Coach Smith told me just coach til you cant coach anymore. The only thing he regretted was he felt like he stopped coaching too early.. One year against Laurinburg, Hanners squad was down about 18 with under nine minutes to play; suddenly, he felt Ford come up behind him. In our prayers. The University is currently operating under normal conditions. Guthridge coached North Carolina to the Final Four in his first season before losing to Utah. Carolina Jump Rope is making their fellow Tar Heel rethink what it means to jump rope. His lack of recruiting is why they went 8-20 shortly thereafter. All the things he couldnt do during the daunting in-season months. After Dean Smith retired, Bill Guthridge took over for three years and at some point, we can't remember exactly which year, Boswell struck. You will be missed. 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. The guys worked hard and didnt lose confidence, Guthridge said after the season. The emotion was there, its just that it was often Guthridge providing it. He stepped down 2 months later. Ford whispered for Hanners to try running 21 defense really sagging off defenders, even inside the 3-point line. Bill Guthridge, who led North Carolina to two Final Four appearances in his three seasons as basketball coach of the Tar Heels, will announce his retirement today, the Associated Press reported. That season, he led the Tar Heels to a 34-4 record and the final No. As an assistant, Guthridge was renowned for his success in coaching the fundamentals of pivot play to a long series of successful UNC big men, and as the Tar Heels' primary shooting coach. #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. Of course, Smith did retire. We certainly had no idea; he was still the smartest guy, could recall everything he was seeing.. Guthridge went 80-28 from 1997 to 2000 before retiring in June 2000. Guthridge, 62, said a few weeks ago that he planned to stay on another five or six years. But it was as if the whole contraption was tilted, resting at an incline so that the sand would never get to the bottom. If Bill Guthridge doesnt look familiar to you as a UNC-Chapel Hill head basketball coach, theres a very good reason for that. The Tar Heels either won the ACC tournament or finished atop the league standings -- or did both -- in 23 of those seasons. It was Guthridge who was the creator of the well-known and slightly strange departure times for Carolina travel parties. Calhoun, elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, is . 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. He got his taste. I remember telling the chancellor that, Baddour says. Together, they taught us basketball is secondary. Baddour was scheduled to travel with the football program that day for a game at TCU, but before leaving he spoke to Smith on the phone. Matt Doherty, who succeeded Guthridge as Tar Heels coach and served in that capacity for three seasons, tweeted his condolences Wednesday. Jamisons teammates and Hanners and Baddour all agree. Once he asked a manager, whose arms were full of equipment, if he had change for a quarter. Note: Former University of North Carolina mens basketball coach Bill Guthridge passed away May 12. Guthridge was a player and then an assistant coach at Kansas State before joining the Tar Heels staff in 1967. Jordan is among many Tar Heels who had tremendous respect for Guthridge. "Mak said he gets this call from his mom: 'Mak, there's this man here in Africa, says he's your coach,' ". If Williams had said no, then who might have been offered the job? Former UNC Coach Bill Guthridge passed away last night at age 77 w/ family at his side. 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. Guthridge was the longtime assistant to UNC coach Dean Smith, who died earlier this year. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. The team bus never left at 2 p.m. When he retired as head coach in 2000, he knew he wouldnt be able to get through telling his staff about his departure. In his three seasons as head coach Guthridge led the Tar Heels to the NCAA final Four twice, in 1998 and again in 2000. Really, a championship or not is the only major differentiator between Smith and Guthridge. "All I can say is I'm pursuing other opportunities," Davis said. I was just happy that the team had success. After Coach Guthridges retirement in 2003, he and Coach Smith stayed in close contact, visiting each other frequently. Making the Final Four is a tremendous accomplishment but its not what you chase. But it is my opinion that he expected, when he first told me that, that he would continue to be the coach.. Former UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour: Bill was one of the most respected and admired people I have known. Maybe Phil Ford wouldve been the head coach then, Ndiaye says. And as the confetti fell on UNCs first title A.D. After Dean Guthridge burst into tears alongside his former players. But Guthridge, who died Tuesday at 77 of heart failure, was not just one of the best college basketball coaches of all time, he was an unfailingly decent man who displayed a rare degree of. [6], National champion We ended up beating em easily, and I thanked him later for it, Hanners says. (Robert Willett / Tribune News Service via Getty). Ironically, both coaches developed dementia along the way (Coach Smith died in January 2015 of complications from dementia). 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. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? But theres also the fact that Dean did it his way, which was entirely predictable. Thats impossible to know, but Williams was also returning a top-five team, one that was expected to compete for a championship in its own right. 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. 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. Like his lifelong friend and mentor, Coach Dean Smith, he led by example instilling values of kindness, discipline and a strong work ethic. . But the Tar Heels suffered a soul-crushing NCAA Tournament loss that also ended Phil Fords career. That image of Guthridge is accurate but not complete. He led his first team to the 1998 Final Four and had two players, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, selected in the top five picks of the NBA draft. He couldnt generate enough energy to get through all of that., Some background: In the years leading up to his retirement specifically every spring after the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament Smith expressed a sense of exhaustion to the people around him. (An aside: if Doherty stays, does Mike Brey, succeeded him and still remains in South Bend, get that job, or is he elsewhere too?). Guthridge was the consensus National Coach of the Year in 1998. Its not what gets remembered for the rest of your life, at least not at a place like North Carolina. Smith, after all, kept an office in the arena for several years after retirement. He is probably best remembered for his loyalty to Smith, who died in February at age 83. The Kansas native took over the role of head coach following Smith's departure. My time is in the past now and we have to move forward.. Williams and Ndiaye both graduated. What burned just below that was a fierce competitor who might sometimes react more like a fan than you would expect. Just a really good man who made Carolina, the ACC and college basketball better.. 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. Smith wanted longtime assistant Bill Guthridge (age 60 at the time) to be a head coach and enjoy the competitive and financial rewards of the job. Well if hes got a five-year contract, you know hes gonna coach five years. He was instrumental in helping lure Williams back to North Carolina. The Tar Heels then went 24-10 in 1998-99 but were upset by Weber State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. On the day of Smiths retirement, The Washington Post reported Smith wants his other longtime assistant, former Tar Heels point guard Phil Ford, eventually to become the coach, a source said. Ford was arguably Smiths best player ever, and UNCs all-time leading scorer at the time. He also was an assistant to Smith on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team that won the gold medal in Montreal. How close did Raleigh come to getting an NFL team? Assistant coach Phil Ford is at right. 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]. But it was all as a team, no one mans fault or wrongdoing for the groups shortcoming. All rights reserved. Guthridge became head coach after Smith retired in 1997 and coached the team for three seasons.UNC coach Roy Williams called Guthridge a key . He was a father figure.". But if Williams had declined the opportunity, as he initially did a year prior? 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. Guthridge didn't bother to recruit Jason Williams,. For more than three decades, Coach Guthridge served this University he loved so much with a deep commitment to academic and athletic excellence. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. 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. 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. He coached 1997-98 National Player of the Year Antawn Jamison 99 and 1998-99 NBA Rookie of the Year Vince Carter 99, both of whom entered the NBA draft after their junior seasons. In that July or August period, when Coach Smith basically told Coach Guthridge for the very last time in his life, Im not ready, Im not gonna do it again, then I think Coach Guthridge told him at that point that hed really like to try, Hanners says. MIAMI: Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson acknowledged he has given the school permission to talk to Green Wave coach Perry Clark about replacing Leonard Hamilton. He said Friday he now knows how Smith felt in 1997 when he stepped down. He wasnt an electric radio show guest. That startling decision equated to the ultimate professional sacrifice. I dont think he went in that summer thinking, Im not gonna be the basketball coach by fall, Baddour says. 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. There were reports that Michigan was interested in him at the time His only drawback was a DUI arrest in September 1998, after which he was temporarily placed on leave. William Wallace Guthridge (July 27, 1937 May 12, 2015) was an American college basketball coach. Go play golf. Theres no right answer, no certainty. Revisionist history does offer some diverging paths, though. Guthridge was completely committed to Carolina basketball, and he wanted to make sure everyone else in the program felt the same way. And as an assistant for Smith for nine seasons, he had both a championship pedigree and a deep understanding of how the program operated. Panthers add Parks Frazier as passing game coordinator, Duke finishes 16-0 at home after 71-67 win over N.C. 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That first five minutes, you can have all the confidence in the world, but if you go down 23-8 or 13-4, you just put so much pressure on yourself. In public, he was never going to be the center of attention. And he said, Im not crying because we won. You accomplished something that takes some other people 20-plus years to do. #RIP. Dean Smith unexpectedly retired as head basketball coach at North Carolina just two months before the start of the 199798 season, and Guthridge was immediately named his successor. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. Coach Smith would be more likely to draw up something in a timeout, or draw up a play maybe we hadnt worked on, where as Coach Guthridge was going to rely on what wed done in the past, says Brad Frederick, a forward on that team and now a UNC assistant coach. Matt Doherty, who played at UNC while Guthridge was an assistant and then became the school's head coach after Guthridge retired, sent along his condolences: Thank you Coach Gut for the many lessons you taught us at UNC. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Capital Financial - Learn how to secure lifetime retirement income. Without question, every opportunity that I would have to hire Roy Williams. Ill just say this, says Dave Hanners, one of Smiths longtime assistants. 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.. Which put Baddour on the search for a long-term replacement for the first time. 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. Smith is now 82 and with some health issues. 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