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The Secret 1982 Dean Smith Interview
Sportsfolio: Coach Smith, the team has been ranked number one for most of the season. How does this ranking affect the team?
Dean Smith: How did you get in here and who are you?
Sportsfolio: My name is Steve Holstrom and I'm with Sportsfolio - remember we arranged this interview weeks ago?
Dean Smith: No, but what's on your mind. I only have a few minutes.
Sportsfolio: Does the pressure of being number one most of the season affect the team's performance?
Dean Smith: Yes.
Sportsfolio: Sport Magazine has said that Carolina has quickness, power inside, and a killer instinct. Others have said that the team is tentative. How do you coach a killer instinct?
Dean Smith: Do you have about eight dollars in your pocket?
Sportsfolio: Yes, but -
Dean Smith: Then buy my book.
Sportsfolio: Why haven't you played the blue team (second string) this year?
Dean Smith: Have you seen the guys on my bench? There's no way I'd let five of those guys on the floor at the same time. They can't shoot, dribble, pass, or play defense. Most of them can't even read the book I wrote.
Sportsfolio: Let's talk about the starters for a moment. James Worthy for instance, will he turn pro this year?
Dean Smith: I certainly hope so. Despite having a few good games for us he's really mediocre as a player, and has caused a great deal of resentment among the players who would like to grow beards. He's a troublemaker for sure.
Sportsfolio: How do you feel about the ease of beating long-time rivals Duke and State this year?
Dean Smith: We should always beat them. We have a better school, a better group of athletes, and I'm probably the best coach in the nation. Most of the referees are personal friends of mine, and most graduated from Carolina.
Sportsfolio: How well has Warren Martin progressed this year?
Dean Smith: Jimmy Black is probably the most underrated player in the country. He should have been named to the AII-ACC team this year and should be drafted in the first or second round.
Sportsfolio: Has the team played as well as you'd hoped they would this year?
Dean Smith: No. I was really disappointed losing twice this year. Especially losing to Wake Forest. Tacy is one of the league's worst coaches and· losing to him is personally distasteful.
Sportsfolio: Were you disappointed that Virginia lost so early in the NCAAs?
Dean Smith: I'm never disappointed when Virginia loses. Some people think that Terry Holland and I don't like each other. That's not true - we can't stand each other. Holland is very jealous of me and rightly so.
Sportsfolio: How well has Buzz Peterson progressed this year?
Dean Smith: Jimmy Black is probably the most underrated player in the country. He should have been named to the AII-ACC this year and should be drafted in the first or second round.
Sportsfolio: There have been a lot of walking calls made on Michael Jordan this year. Is he walking or just too quick for the officials?
Dean Smith: Too quick. We plan on fitting Michael with shoes that are two sizes too big so that he can move inside his shoes without traveling. We figure the officials will never notice.
Sportsfolio: AI McGuire sometimes knocks you in his comments as a sportscaster. I thought you guys were friends.
Dean Smith: You thought wrong.
Sportsfolio: Will Jimmy Braddock see more action next year as a senior and as a possible replacement for Black?
Dean Smith: Probably not. Besides, who can replace Jimmy Black? Jimmy Black is probably the most underrated player in the country. He should have been named to the AII-ACC this year and ...
Sportsfolio: And should be drafted in the first or second round. Right. How about Dean Smith going to the pros? Will it ever happen?
Dean Smith: Why leave the southern part of heaven for, shall we say, the warmer depths of the pros?
Sportsfolio: Will we see a thirty-second clock in college basketball?
Dean Smith: I'm all for it. I'm tired of having to win twenty games a season by having to come up with innovative new stalling strategies. Carolina can win with any set of rules. After all, we are the best coached team in the nation. Don't you know that we'll be able to adapt to most anything the rules committee can come up with?
Sportsfolio: Coach, you've been quoted as saying that -
Dean Smith: Who did you say you were writing for?
Sportsfolio: Sportsfolio
Dean Smith: You mean a local sports weekly got an interview with the best coach in the country? And without paying me, I suppose. Do you know what Sports illustrated pays for an interview? What do I look like - the coach for James Madison University? You know that you haven't once asked me about the book I wrote? You haven't even taken my picture yet!
Comments:
the author of the piece
12:03 PM Tue 1/12/2010
charly—
You should have explained that the piece appeared in the april fool's issue of Sportsfolio, a weekly local sports magazine... without following the coach and his program at the time (as most avid chapel hill sports readers did) most of the joking 'responses' don't make much sense... there is little question that Dean E. Smith bears little resemblance to the coach depicted in the piece— or did he?
regardless, I enjoy your website...
steve
Franklin
3:12 PM Tue 9/15/2009
I'm kind of stunned that people didn't get the joke. Pretty funny stuff!
Charly Mann
4:18 PM Sat 4/18/2009
This was an April Fools piece by a huge Carolina fan, and author of a Dean Smith bio.
Phil Hawkins
1:04 PM Sat 4/18/2009
This is complete BS. Anyone who knows Coach Smith knows this is a bunch of made-up drivel, probably by a Duke fan.
Francie
7:16 AM Fri 4/3/2009
Charly...Is this real??? Doesn't sound like the Dean I know!!
At one point, he was my Sunday School teacher!
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Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
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There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
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Class of 1977. I remember we had lost at home to Wake after going into the four corners with the lead. The next day a couple of friends and I were in line at the YMCA to get something to drink. Coach Smith got in line behind us. It was obvious he was on his way to practice at Carmichael. Had the whistle around his neck, clipboard, etc. Anyway, we offered to let him go ahead of us in the line. He politely refused. I awkwardly commented on the tough loss the night before and he just kind of shook his head and smiled. As we waited, we started talking about classes, professors, etc. He listened mostly. When we left, though, Coach Smith was l talking to us and then took probably 15-20 minutes to continue our conversation with us about our experiences at Carolina, our majors, our plans for after college, etc. He never mentioned basketball. And it was obvious he was running late for practice. Still, he took the time to talk to us about our lives and our experiences at Carolina. My fondest memory of Carolina.