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. Change). Were the best North Carolina team that never won a championship. Had it worked out where there wasnt a down year or whatever, maybe things end up differently, Frederick says. But against the Utes, the Tar Heels fell behind quickly and were never able to catch up. It left at 1:57 p.m. His reasoning? What you saw was the quiet assistant sitting on the bench. 2 "The End of Absence" Michael Harris, Pt. Brendan Marks covers Duke and North Carolina basketball for The Athletic. He won more games than any college head coach in history after just two seasons and tied N.C. States Everett Case for most coaching victories after three years. He also coached 66 players who were selected in the NBA and/or ABA drafts. Guthridge was completely content in the role of a lifetime assistant and the Smith/Guthridge combo would have been weakened had Guthridge retired early. That image of Guthridge is accurate but not complete. One year against Laurinburg, Hanners squad was down about 18 with under nine minutes to play; suddenly, he felt Ford come up behind him. Veteran sports reporter Peter Gammons had high praise for the former coach: Saddened to learn Bill Guthridge passed away. Ndiaye even tried cracking the ice by joking that Guthridges years as head coach probably hadnt hurt his wallet. Looking around at his devastated players in the locker room, Guthridge realized he simply couldnt leave. 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. 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By the way, Dean Smith basically forced UNC to hire Guthridge, his long-time assistant, when El Deano suddenly retired in October 1997, just before the beginning of the hoops season. 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Theres no right answer, no certainty. "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. (LogOut/ CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Former University of North Carolina head coach Bill Guthridge, who also served 30 years as an assistant to Dean Smith, died Tuesday night at age 77, university officials confirmed on Wednesday. We didnt play well for just five minutes, and that decided the game.. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. 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. 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. 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.. He was like Coach Guthridge in that both of them loved and bled Carolina blue so much that they never wanted to leave the program.. Former UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour: Bill was one of the most respected and admired people I have known. He was a part of 867 wins in 33 seasons at Carolina and 960 college coaching victories overall, including 93 wins on the staff at Kansas State. All rights reserved. He was no different from Coach Smith or Coach Guthridge. 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. Guthridge, who like Smith was a. Guthridge had once accepted Penn States head coaching vacancy in the 1970s, only to return to Chapel Hill before his connecting flight to State College. "Mak said he gets this call from his mom: 'Mak, there's this man here in Africa, says he's your coach,' ". Guthridge went 80-28 from 1997 to 2000 before retiring in June 2000. In his tenure at UNC, Guthridge coached five National Players of the Year, six ACC Players of the Year, five ACC Rookies of the Year and 28 first-team All-ACC players. 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. 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. After Coach Guthridge's retirement in 2003, he and Coach Smith stayed in close contact, visiting each other frequently. 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. School officials stressed that Guthridge was not merely a placeholder for then-Kansas coach Roy Williams, signing him to a five-year contract. He was 77. Coach Guthridge is the best I have ever seen in selecting potential in high school players, Smith once said, according to the teams website. "Because I knew Coach Guthridge had the best interest for you and wanted to see you succeed.". He came up with the idea that Dean Smith, having . From 1972 onward, he was Smith's top assistant. In our prayers. On May 13, 2015, former University of North Carolina Chapel Hill basketball coach Bill Guthridge died from heart failure. Just a really good man who made Carolina, the ACC and college basketball better.. Capital Financial - Learn how to secure lifetime retirement income. Really, a championship or not is the only major differentiator between Smith and Guthridge. For starters, Baddour says he still would have offered Guthridge the job first. "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.". Then there are the other options from Smiths tree: Karl and Fogler and even Larry Brown. Hed grown up in North Carolina, graduated from the university, won a championship as an assistant under Smith and had built a successful program as the coach at Kansas. [5], He died at his home on May 12, 2015, after an extended illness, alongside his family. Elizabeth A. Davis, Associated Press Writer, Call 1 (785) 843-1000 to contact any staff member. SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school boys' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season, Brown: There will never be another Bill Guthridge. 33 yrs on UNC bench. But I know thats something that bothered him to his death, Ndiaye says. Guthridge retired after the season, having spent the first 43 years of his adult life as a player, high school coach, and college coach. 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. He was 77 years old. Its one game, Jamison says. (Scott Sharpe/News & Observer), Standing Together With Our Black Community, Assistant Schall Named Head Volleyball Coach, After 33 Years, Volleyball Coach Sagula Retires, In Memoriam: Elizabeth B. Morgan (19302022). Smith, after all, kept an office in the arena for several years after retirement. Guthridge . He was 77 years old, Former UNC basketball coach Bill Guthridge passes away at age 77, UNC School of Social Work becomes new home for CEAL@UNC, expand work to advance assisted living. The guys worked hard and didnt lose confidence, Guthridge said after the season. Just like Smith, Guthridge found a way to impact his players beyond teaching them offensive and defensive principles. He was known to answer a question such as Coach, do you know what time it is? with a Yes as he walked away. in education in 1963. Baddour and Smith never had a lengthy sitdown to discuss the future. I would have been as vigorous and go after that as hard as I could possibly go.. 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. Now Guthridge, 77, is enduring a similarly cruel fate . A relatively quiet man with a wonderful and dry sense of humor. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 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He formed a successful partnership with Dean Smith that lasted three decades until Smith retired in 1997. All the things he couldnt do during the daunting in-season months. But if Smith was selfless in his handling of McAdoo, it was nothing compared to Smiths shocking retirement on Oct. 9, 1997. 3 "The End of Absence" Michael Harris. He led the program to a pair of Final Four appearances in three seasons at the helm before retiring following the 1999-2000 campaign. It was an admirable, honorable action for Smith to take and Guthridge went on to win 80 games in three seasons. When Smith was needlessly ejected from the 1991 Final Four, it was Guthridge who was furious in the tunnel after the game. Hed have been two years into a rebuild at Notre Dame, and perhaps less reluctant to leave. In his three seasons as head coach Guthridge led the Tar Heels to the NCAA final Four twice, in 1998 and again in 2000. 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. Perhaps, at last, somewhere in his mind, Coach Guthridge finally made the decision it was time for him to retire from this physical life. On June 30th in 1969, Bill Russell announced his retirement from professional basketball after a 13-year NBA career. "All I can say is I'm pursuing other opportunities," Davis said. He held a news conference in the bowels of the Dean Smith Center, where he announced his retirement from the game hed given his life to. He previously worked at The Charlotte Observer as a Carolina Panthers beat reporter, and his writing has also appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Boston Globe and The Baltimore Sun. 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. Why would a healthy 66-year-old call it quits and relinquish the chance to coach that team? For what? He tried to do every one of those little things that drove Coach Smith crazy. After Smith retired in October 1997, then-athletic director Dick Baddour elevated Guthridge to the top job. He led his first team to the 1998 Final Four and had two players, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, selected in the top five . The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. Ndiaye remembers taking his son for a campus tour years later, and Guthridge coming out of the Smith Center to greet him. Carolina Basketball confirmed the news on Twitter: Sad news. Calhoun, elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, is . 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. Guthridge would still call on Smith, after all, to speak to the team at certain times. The fact that he felt like he failed us.. Because that was supposed to be something that we accomplished together.. 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. WAKE FOREST: Former basketball standout Charlie Davis quit his job in the athletic department, reportedly for not being considered for advancement. Following the 199798 season, several organizations named him National Coach of the Year and he received the Naismith College Coach of the Year award. He was instrumental in helping lure Williams back to North Carolina. That was the presumption Baddour and the basketball program operated under. "My sympathies go out to his wife, Leesie, and their kids and family.". Dean Smith unexpectedly retired as head basketball coach at North Carolina just two months before the start of the 1997-98 season, and Guthridge was immediately named his successor. "Needless to say I'm tired of having meetings like this." 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. And as the confetti fell on UNCs first title A.D. After Dean Guthridge burst into tears alongside his former players. "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. 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. 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