Frederick said he wanted to emphasize to Williams how strongly the university, the community, the people in the state of Kansas and all of our alumni and fans feel about him continuing as the Jayhawk coach forever.. We offer our deepest condolences to the Guthridge family as they grieve the loss of a wonderful husband and father.. Guthridge became head coach after Smith retired in 1997 and coached the team for three seasons.UNC coach Roy Williams called Guthridge a key . 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. The Tar Heels either won the ACC tournament or finished atop the league standings -- or did both -- in 23 of those seasons. They shot just 39.1 percent from the floor and made only 3-of-23 attempts from 3. Heck, he might still be the coach at North Carolina. 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 also handled many day-to-day responsibilities in the program and oversaw UNC's summer basketball camps. Guthridge's did, too, and during Smith's funeral and memorial services, Williams, knowing the end could be near, told former players and current ones to spend time with Guthridge. That team still went 34-4, losing to Utah in the Final Four. Former UNC Coach Bill Guthridge passed away last night at age 77 w/ family at his side. But it really wasnt and we both knew it. Had McAdoo returned, Smiths team would have been much better positioned to deal with David Thompsons stunning impact on NC State, the ACC and the nation. Guthridge was Smiths assistant for 30 years. Baddour and Smith never had a lengthy sitdown to discuss the future. I enjoyed my 30 years as an assistant coach, and Ive enjoyed my three years as a head coach.. Perhaps, at last, somewhere in his mind, Coach Guthridge finally made the decision to retire from this physical life. The school scheduled a news conference for 2:30 p.m. today. That was probably six or seven years later where somebody else might recognize it. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. But against the Utes, the Tar Heels fell behind quickly and were never able to catch up. When did Bill Guthridge coach at UNC? He also was an assistant to Smith on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team that won the gold medal in Montreal. His calm demeanorhe could sometimes be found sitting in the stands an hour before road games eating popcorn or a hot dogmasked a passionate love for the Tar Heels. Division regular season and conference tournament champion He saw his memory issues coming long before the world did. "Needless to say I'm tired of having meetings like this." And had Smith gone until age 71 or 72, as did Kentuckys Adolph Rupp, Carolina would have won another 50-60 games and the transition to Roy Williams might have happened seamlessly. As early as April and May, Bill Guthridge Smiths primary assistant for some 30 years reached out to Hanners about doing extra study of the teams offensive and defensive sets. And I said, I cant say to you with certainty what Bills gonna do, but this is how we have to approach it. For starters, Baddour says he still would have offered Guthridge the job first. Tim Crothers. 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. He was a lifetime assistant coach for whom Dean did a solid. If Bill Guthridge doesnt look familiar to you as a UNC-Chapel Hill head basketball coach, theres a very good reason for that. He was instrumental in helping lure Williams back to North Carolina. 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. 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. He is probably best remembered for his loyalty to Smith, who died in February at age 83. Prior to that, Guthridge served as Smith's assistant coach for 30 years. Following Smith's retirement in 1997, Guthridge was head coach of the Tar Heels for three seasons. 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 family told team spokesman Steve Kirschner that Guthridge died of heart failure and that the coach had lived with a heart condition the past seven years. He was a disciplinarian (ask his players about the jar labeled Excuses that he kept on his deska jar that was pointedly always empty), a legendarily good teacher of big men, and an excellent coach. But more than just that team, Smith left behind a mound of questions. If my answer was no, then Roy wouldve had absolutely zero interest. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. I needed Bill to tell me, Dick, yes, I want to do this, Baddour says, and he was clear that he wanted to.. Or does Doherty get his chance regardless? Coach Guthridge made his retirement official on May 13, 2015. He formed a successful partnership with Dean Smith that lasted three decades until Smith retired in 1997. My guess is that Coach Guthridge probably never came back from that place after Coach Smiths death and I would speculate that Coach Smiths death may have been the final straw of an increasingly-unfamiliar and disconnected life for Coach Guthridge. Longtime North Carolina basketball coach Bill Guthridge died Tuesday night. Ill really miss this next years team and what those guys have done for me, said Guthridge, whose team last season reached the Final Four before being eliminated in the semifinals. 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. North Carolina made 10 trips to the Final Four and won two national championships during the time Smith and Guthridge spent together. 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. It was very, very much real and something Smith had to balance with the sentiment that maybe he had left too soon. And that brings us full-circle, back to the original what-if: What if Dean Smith had finished out his contract, which ran through the end of the 2000-01 season? What happened, happened. And I think he probably had second thoughts, because at what point was it really a danger? Ndiaye even tried cracking the ice by joking that Guthridges years as head coach probably hadnt hurt his wallet. . He was North Carolina basketball, the constant as the new building was built in his honor and the banners in the rafters accumulated, the link from Scott to Ford to Jordan to Stackhouse. (An aside: if Doherty stays, does Mike Brey, succeeded him and still remains in South Bend, get that job, or is he elsewhere too?). Coach Smith began showing signs of cognitive impairment before Coach Guthridge did. I wouldve never thought of that in a million years.. (LogOut/ For what? Guthridge went 80-28 from 1997 to 2000 before retiring in June 2000. They made sure we knew it wasnt the most important thing in the world, but that we had been given a talent, and it was our job to use it., The Carolina community mourns the passing of Bill Guthridge, a great coach, devoted friend and loyal Tar Heel. 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. Certainly, what a marvelous run of three years.. Its hard, man. Perhaps, at last, somewhere in his mind, Coach Guthridge finally made the decision it was time for him to retire from this physical life. But I know thats something that bothered him to his death, Ndiaye says. SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school boys' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season, Brown: There will never be another Bill Guthridge. And as the confetti fell on UNCs first title A.D. After Dean Guthridge burst into tears alongside his former players. Guthridge, who like Smith was a. As he famously said at Smiths retirement news conference, I always thought we would ride off into the sun together.. And as an assistant for Smith for nine seasons, he had both a championship pedigree and a deep understanding of how the program operated. He wouldve been gone. He bought into everything. In that scenario, Williams never leaves Kansas and Ford probably never leaves North Carolina. He was even more important to me. When he reached the decision to step down during that summer of 1997, no one could have changed his mind, even if given the opportunity to do so. Bill Guthridge, who made his college basketball reputation as Dean Smith's trusted right-hand man then took Carolina to two Final Fours in three years as head coach after his mentor retired has died after a long illness. Seeded eighth in the South region, North Carolina upset top-seeded Stanford in the second round and continued to the Final Four, where they lost to Florida. One of the things that made (Smith) so special was his ability to be innovative so certainly, I think we would have had some other ways to attack in a game that we struggled, against Utah in the Final Four.. I didnt really have to focus too much on a Plan B, Baddour says. As things went, by the end of the 1999-2000 season which concluded with a surprise Final Four run, Guthridges second trip in three seasons Smiths right-hand man was finally ready to step away himself. Maybe Phil Ford wouldve been the head coach then, Ndiaye says. He was on the sidelines for a record 73 NCAA Tournament victories, including 71 at Carolina and two at Kansas State. Peterson -- who roomed with Jordan on those early 1980s teams -- said Guthridge kept the program going off the court, with the assistant making him run the school's golf course at 6 a.m. as punishment for once being late. But the Tar Heels suffered a soul-crushing NCAA Tournament loss that also ended Phil Fords career. (Robert Willett / Tribune News Service via Getty). His legacy and contributions to my life and to our University will live on and he'll be much more remembered for his sense of humor and class just as much as his coaching.". Really, a championship or not is the only major differentiator between Smith and Guthridge. But it was all as a team, no one mans fault or wrongdoing for the groups shortcoming. The manager put down his stuff and rifled through his pockets. Our hope and fervent desire is that the best basketball coach in America will continue to practice his craft at KU, he said Thursday night. Which put Baddour on the search for a long-term replacement for the first time. Guthridge didnt need the change, just wanted to know if he had it. Former UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour: Bill was one of the most respected and admired people I have known. When employees came to work at the GAA on a rainy day, Elizabeth Morgan, warm, Bill Guthridge, who made his college basketball reputation as Dean Smiths trusted right-hand man then took Carolina to two Final Fours in three years as head coach after his mentor retired has died after a long illness. He once told a newspaper he never left the program because the other 300 Division I head-coaching jobs weren't better than his job as an assistant. 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With the number of Americans residing in assisted living communities nearing 1 million and growing, CEAL@UNCs work will be vital for ensuring that older adults nationwide have access to quality and supportive care that enables them to age with dignity and respect. Its one game, Jamison says. 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. But if Williams had said no, as he did two years later, would Ford have been tapped for the job then? Its not what gets remembered for the rest of your life, at least not at a place like North Carolina. I really liked the attitude of the team, the way they worked hard and how they were rewarded finally. At which point, Baddour faced as unenviable a position as any athletic director in the country: Who do you hire to fill Dean Smiths shoes? We didnt play well for just five minutes, and that decided the game.. When he retired as head coach in 2000, he knew he wouldnt be able to get through telling his staff about his departure. We offer our deepest sympathies to Bills family, friends and the entire North Carolina basketball community.. (LogOut/ Guthridge was an assistant coach along with Hall of Famer John Thompson under Smith in 1976 when the U.S. won the Olympic gold medal in Montreal. It didnt bother me that I was a lousy coach, and when we started winning I was a better coach. And then Bill can decide along the way what he wants to do.. Guthridge was completely committed to Carolina basketball, and he wanted to make sure everyone else in the program felt the same way. Hed told reporters he expected to honor the remaining four years on his deal. If I were to call Roy and ask Roy was he interested, the first question out of his mouth wouldve been, did Bill get a chance? Baddour says. Because that was supposed to be something that we accomplished together.. 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. Everybody would have loved Coach Ford to get the opportunity, Frederick says. If Williams had said no, then who might have been offered the job? 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. Why would you stay? He was a father figure.". Together, they taught us basketball is secondary. Hed grow bored of golf, and once that happened, his staff knew hed summoned up the energy for another go-around. What you saw was the quiet assistant sitting on the bench. For more than three decades, Coach Guthridge served this University he loved so much with a deep commitment to academic and athletic excellence. He led his first team to the 1998 Final Four and had two players, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, selected in the top five . That season, he led the Tar Heels to a 34-4 record and the final No. That was the presumption Baddour and the basketball program operated under. WAKE FOREST: Former basketball standout Charlie Davis quit his job in the athletic department, reportedly for not being considered for advancement. Coaches, both within the program and across the country, still came calling to Chapel Hill every summer to pick his brains about Xs and Os. Williams famously turned him down, opting to remain at Kansas, where hed built a Carolina-esque family dynamic (at Smiths alma mater, to boot). (LogOut/ He tried to do every one of those little things that drove Coach Smith crazy. Fords reputation was growing fast as a star recruiter, having single-handedly delivered Rasheed Wallace to UNC and playing a major role in Carters eventual commitment. The spring of 1997, it seemed, was no different. Just like Smith, Guthridge found a way to impact his players beyond teaching them offensive and defensive principles. 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. The Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program is one of the first research programs focused exclusively on addressing the gap in child and adolescent mental health services. He will certainly be remembered for what he did as opposed to what else he might have done. At the time, their run of 172 consecutive weeks in the AP Poll was the second-longest in college basketball history. He was enormously committed to attention to detail and organization, says Dick Baddour, a longtime university administrator who served as athletic director from 1997 to 2011. Having grown up in North Carolina and gone to school here and worked here, I think it was probably just destiny.. 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. In 1993, he and his wife, Leesie, created the William W. and Elise P. Guthridge Library Fund, which helped with purchasing materials and renovation of the House Undergraduate Library. If you previously used a social network to login to WRALSportsFan.com, click the Forgot your password link to reset your password. That said, its worth remembering that he told Williams just a few years ago that perhaps 66 was too early to retire, given his near flawless health at the time. "My sympathies go out to his wife, Leesie, and their kids and family.". Bill was a great coach, but he never got enough credit during most of those years. 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. Of course, Smith did retire. Were the best North Carolina team that never won a championship. In fact, most of that team reconvened in St. Louis in 2005 for Williams first championship game at North Carolina. 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. Thank you Coach Gut for the many lessons you taught us at UNC. The inconsistent season came on the heels of a first-round NCAA Tournament loss in 1999. But I already had a better job than that and I was happy here. It was Guthridge who was the creator of the well-known and slightly strange departure times for Carolina travel parties. An assistant to Dean Smith for 30 seasons, Guthridge replaced his former boss when Smith retired in 1997 after 36 years as coach of the Tar Heels. Carolina Jump Rope is making their fellow Tar Heel rethink what it means to jump rope. Conference regular season champion But the season, and that loss specifically, never faded from their collective consciousness. It was the 14th time Guthridge participated in the Final Four. Guthridge was the longtime assistant to UNC coach Dean Smith, who died earlier this year. As he would prepare for a basketball practice or game, he was equally intense about attention to detail in scheduling or whatever.. Or perhaps someone else from Smiths coaching tree, such as George Karl or Eddie Fogler? After waiting an uncharacteristically long time to respond, he smiled and thanked me. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. He was a friend. Guthridge would still call on Smith, after all, to speak to the team at certain times. In his first year as head coach, he led the the team . Doherty was criticized from the moment he was hired, for breaking somewhat from Smith and Guthridges family dynamic; that scrutiny only intensified in his second season, when UNC bottomed out to a program-worst record of 8-20. Because before we can consider what might have been, we have to understand why everything played out as it did. 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. [6], National champion Sad news. "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. That image of Guthridge is accurate but not complete. In Guthridge's final season, he went 18-13 -- at the time, the program's worst finish in decades -- but bounced back in the postseason to reach North Carolina's 15th Final Four before losing in the national semifinals to Florida. 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