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®ltr Satly (Tar Iflwl News / p EBBD 107th year of editorial freedom Sening the students and the University community since 1893 UNC Keeps It in 'Family' With Doherty >%.v * nr. - RfedUl HHH * #H< I , I ill -&1A I i-M -•■ t# M&jl ■•# * ****£. # 1 <:-* .*WKmtmS 11 l iflMfHf * r tM liJ & &w:£fy m New Coach Brings Notre Dame Staff Former Notre Dame coaches replace Phil Ford, Dave Hanners and Pat Sullivan on the North Carolina bench. Will Kimmfy Sports Editor Dean Smith always stressed loyalty to his players and assistant coaches. But that lesson has come back to haunt him recently. It was the loyalty he taught his disci ple, Roy Williams, that kept Williams from taking the coaching job at North Carolina last week. And it was that same value that Smith helped instill in Matt Doherty that New Financial Aid Program Will Help Ease Tuition Hike Worth Civils City/State & National Editor Students attending UNC schools next year will benefit from the first ever state supported financial aid program. The $5 million program is part of the recently approved sl4 billion state bud get, along with $1.3 million from the previous year, and will compliment fed eral funding, which is the main source of financial aid for students. Gary Barnes, UNC vice president for program assessment and public service, said the new need-based financial aid program would begin next spring semester with incoming freshmen. “We’ve got to build the system” Barnes said. “Financial aid applications for next year are over. We’ll see who is eligible, notify students in the fall and You guys tore up Franklin Street this weekend. I'm gonna do some of the same tonight Matt Doherty, addressing students following the 1982 national championship game WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE 99Hb \ ended the North Carolina coaching careers of three assistants Tuesday. When Doherty was named the new Tar Heel coach, he decided to bring along his staff from Notre Dame. That meant that Phil Ford, Dave Hanners and Pat Sullivan were each out of a job. “That just kills Former UNC assistant coach Phil Fcrd lost his job along with Dave Hanners and Pat Sullivan. me,” Smith said. “I do believe every head coach has to hire the assistants. I knew that. I guess it’d make it more give out grants in the spring.” While this year’s budget does not support the program in full, J.B. Milliken, UNC vice president for public affairs and university advancement, said the legislature supported the eventual funding of $31.8 million in financial aid for all students for all years at the 16 campuses of the UNC system. “We look at this as an attempt to start a program in a tough budget year,” Milliken said. “I hope and expect the (N.C.) General Assembly will address this next year.” UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body President Brad Matthews, who lobbied for financial aid program with other stu dents in Raleigh, said that while the $3 million was not as much as originally requested, he was excited the program would get a start. Thursday, July 13, 2000 Volume 108, Issue 53 exciting if (Doherty) said he’d keep the same ones.” But Doherty brought his own guys in bench coaches Doug Wojcik, Fred Quartlebaum and Bob MacKinnon and director of basketball operations David Cason. All four worked under Doherty in his only season at Notre Dame and all agreed that the decision to follow him to Chapel Hill was an easy one. “Those guys put me in a position to get this job and without them, I would n’t be here,” the new coach said. Doherty didn’t hand the former UNC assistants their walking papers without any remorse. One of his first items of business when he arrived in Chapel Hill on Tuesday afternoon was to consult the three men. “I'm pleased the General Assembly laid the foundation for what will be a very good pro gram," Matthews said. “It’s the beginning of a pro gram that will only get bigger.’’ The financial aid plan grew out “We’ll see who is eligible, notify students in the fall and give out grants in the spring. ” Gary Barnes UNC Vice President for Program Assessment and Public Service of the tuition debate last year, Milliken said. A task force studied financial aid programs at other schools and how they related to the tuition policy. Milliken said the group then made a recommendation adopted by the UNC Board of Governors for the $31.8 mil lion financial aid plan. Hunt then scaled that down to $11.4 million in his budget North Carolina ended its 12-day search for a men's basketball coach Tuesday by hiring the former player. Mike Ogle Sports Editor Matt Doherty has two reasons to thank Roy Williams. First, he said he was grateful for the opportunity Williams gave him as his assistant coach at Kansas for seven years. Now, he can be thankful that last week Williams turned down what is now Doherty’s new job: North Carolina’s men’s basketball coach. Doherty, a 38-year-old with one year of head coaching experience at Notre Dame and 10 as a collegiate assistant, was named the replacement for the retired Bill Guthridge on Tuesday in the Skipper Bowles Room below the Smith Center after 12 days of uncertainty and speculation. “It’s a numbing experience,” Doherty said. “Kind of surreal. You dream it and • 1 DTH/EMUYSCHNURE Matt Doherty, left, met the media Tuesday night for the first time as UNC's basketball coach. Above, clockwise from top left. Interim Chancellor William McCoy, Dean Smith, Bill Guthridge, Jason Capel, Julius Peppers and Kris Lang looked on at the press conference. Doherty said they did nothing wrong, but he just felt too strong a loyalty to his own assistants to leave them behind. Ford’s, Hanners’ and Sullivan’s immediate futures are uncertain. Baddour thanked them for their service to the University and said he’d give them jobs in the athletic department until they decide what to do next. “They’ve been to a few Final Fours and won a few championships as players and coaches,” Doherty said of the out going assistants. “I want them to respect me and respect this program and facili tate the transition.” The transition could be a difficult one at first as the current Tar Heel players must now adjust to more than just anew head coach. “Getting to know one new person is proposal. State Budget Officer Marvin Dorman said a shortfall in the budget was the pri mary reason the financial aid pro posal was under funded by Hunt. “It all has to do with a matter of money,” Dorman said. “This is a tight budget year.” When the governor’s budget propos al went to the General Assembly, the Senate allocated $5 million for the finan cial aid program. Hunt signed the final budget plan onjune 30. Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange and Chatham, said the main reason legisla- \ wonder if you’re going to wake up.” The dream became a reality for Doherty early Tuesday morning when he made up his mind that UNC was the place for him fol lowing a tele phone conversa tion with Michael Jordan, his team mate on the 1982 national champi onship team. Kansas coach Roy Williams was Doherty's boss for seven years and turned down the UNC job last week. “Michael said, ‘you have to do what is best for your family,’” Doherty said. “Then at the end of the conversation, he said, ‘Who knows, if it doesn’t work out with you maybe they will have to go outside the (North Carolina) family.’ Right then, I made my mind up. I want ed to be the head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina.” Doherty, who went 22-15 and fin ished second in the NIT last season in his lone year at Notre Dame, met with UNC athletics director Dick Baddour 1 ; 1 WS/RmSm iHHhBHBBk ; DTH/EMILY SCHNURE Doherty brought his Notre Dame staff, left to right, Fred Quartlebaum, Bob MacKinnon, David Cason and Doug Wojcik, with him to Chapel Hill. one thing,” junior forward Jason Capel said. “But having four new people is tough for anybody to handle.” Capel said he felt the team and new staff would mesh fine on the court, but the real adjustments would come away from the game. He also said he would miss his former coaches, especially tors cut the financial aid program was because of their $lO million funding for online distance learning. The legislature also funded UNC in the amount of $21.1 million for enroll ment increases and $7 million for rein stated operational costs. At $5 million, the financial aid pro gram is not much right now, but Barnes said it will be a significant means of sup port in the coming years, especially as the tuition hikes go into effect during the next couple of years at UNC schools. “This will become a very important source,” Bames said. “We have relied on low tuition as a pnmary source (of finan cial aid). But when looking it, low tuition doesn’t get over the hump anymore.” The CitylState & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina © 2000 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. and Dean Smith on Saturday at the Smith Center to discuss the opening. Baddour offered Doherty the job early Tuesday afternoon. They agreed on a 6-year contract that is awaiting final approval from the Board of Trustees. The deal would pay Doherty $350,000 a season - $145,000 in base salary, SIBO,OOO for radio and television and $25,000 for expenses. An endorsement deal with Nike should also come with the job. No buyout was made for the remaining four years of his contract with Notre Dame. “This is the best job in all of basket ball,” Doherty said. “I hope that I can carry on the tradition not only of win ning but of the excellence off die court, the tying in of the Carolina family.” Despite the allure of the posi tion, Doherty said the decision to leave Notre Dame was not an easy one largely because of advice Smith had given him when he took the Fighting Irish job. “He told me, ‘Take a job where you can see your self being for the rest of your life,’" Doherty said. mm ■*> w Former UNC coach Bill Guthridge unexpectedly retired June 30, leaving the vacancy Doherty ultimately filled. “When I got the Notre Dame opportu nity, I could see myself being there for the rest of my life. That was what was so exciting about it. That’s also what’s so tough about today - leaving that behind.” But Doherty, who played at UNC from 1980-84 and started on that ’B2 team, returns to Chapel Hill to both his basketball family and bis biological faro iiy. Although he grew up in New York, he said North Carolina feels like home. His parents now live in Concord. The proximity of his new job to family and See DOHERTY, Page 7 Ford, who was instrumental in Capel’s recruitment. Senior center Brendan Haywood echoed his teammate’s sentiments. “Those guys were more than coaches to us - they were our friends,” Haywood See CHANGE, Page 7 Thursday Working the Magic Kids and parents lined up in bookstores over the weekend in order to grab a copy of the new Harry Potter book. The new installment in the vastly popular children's series is smashing sales records. See Page 5. Breakin' the Law Former Duke basketball star Corey Maggette admitted to taking $2,000 from an AAU summer league coach while he was in high school. Though Duke claims they had no knowledge of the impropriety, it may end up costing the program dearly. See Page 2.
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