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They once hung a Dean
Smith doll from a tree.
Now it sits on a pedastal.
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Dean Smith
watches,
instructs,
disbelieves
n imitation Dean Smith was hanging by the
neck from a tree in front of Woollen Gym one
January night in 1965 as the real Dean Smith
and his weary basketball team crept into Chapel Hill
following a 107-85 loss at Wake Forest.
Smith pretended not to see the doll hanging in effigy,
but one of his players, Billy Cunningham, did see it. It
took only seconds for Cunningham to make shreds of
the figure.
Dean. Smith wasn't very popular that year in Chapel
Hill or other towns where people worked, slept, fed
their dogs and listened to Ray Reeve tell about Tar
Heel basketball over the radio. People remembered
names' like McGuire and Rosenbluth and Kearns;
people remembered 1957 and the national
championship. There was too much tradition to allow
a man with a 7-6 record following a 1 2-1 2 season the
year before to continue his folly.
"My college coach, Phog Allen,once told me, 'Dean,
you can't stop at every dog that barks or you'll never
get the mail delivered,' ? Smith says.
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They never got around to firing Dean Smith that
year, even after a 1 5-9 season, or in 1966 either, after a
16-11 season.
And get this -- 11 years later people were making
even more of a fuss over Smith when word got out that
he might he moving to Los Angeles and into the
position of head basketball coach at UCLA. Only this
time folks wanted him to stay, not leave. Funny
creatures, those basketball fans.
By that time Smith had won 304 games, lost 113,
taken the Tar Heels to five ACC championships and
five appearances in the JNCAA Final Four, coached the
United States to an Olympic gold medal and done
nearly everything he could with a basketball except an
around-the-back, double-pump, in-yo-face dunk.
Dean Smith leave Chapel Hill? You'd have thought
there was a serious problem like the Russians were
coming when that morbid question popped up.
"1 like the excitement and the interest we have for the
game," Smith says"But I'd prefer to have not as much
focus on the coaches as on the players in the game. I'd
rather coaches not get as much credit when we win and
not as much blame when we lose." '
ut Dean Smith is very much in focus on the
basketball court and will remain that way as
long as he makes his living coaching. While
Smith's off-court image is blurry to all but a few
friends, he carefully cultivates a spit-and-polish public
image and insists that his players and associates do the
See SMITH on page 7
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