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Fast-forward to present day, and he has surpassed Smith in both national championships and wins. 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. One of the best testaments to Guthridges impact came on that retirement day, June 30. "Needless to say I'm tired of having meetings like this." Postseason invitational champion But obviously, the better head coach -- one of four or so best head coaches of all time in his sport -- and the decision to retire was seriously flawed by emotion. 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. Which 16 teams should you buy or fade ahead of March Madness? 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.. Its funny that were doing this story, Jamison says. Dean Smiths hourglass, it seemed, had an endless amount of sand. He needed to hear that from Guthridge. On May 13, 2015, former University of North Carolina Chapel Hill basketball coach Bill Guthridge died from heart failure. 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. College Basketball Coach. "All I can say is I'm pursuing other opportunities," Davis said. And as an assistant for Smith for nine seasons, he had both a championship pedigree and a deep understanding of how the program operated. 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. 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. I think its time to turn it over to somebody else, he said at a campus news conference. That image of Guthridge is accurate but not complete. 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. (Robert Willett / Tribune News Service via Getty). Meanwhile, Creighton coach Dana Altman withdrew his name from consideration. Watch more top videos, highlights, and B/R original content, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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. Smith is now 82 and with some health issues. "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. 33 yrs on UNC bench. How close did Raleigh come to getting an NFL team? It was more a series of passing conversations, regular updates about the coachs state of mind. Theres no way you could dream, Hanners says, anyone would necessarily do better.. The following year, with the program bordering on a mutiny, Doherty resigned. He joined the UNC staff in 1967 after five years as assistant to Tex Winter at Kansas State. Guthridge was completely committed to Carolina basketball, and he wanted to make sure everyone else in the program felt the same way. And everything that happened, for better or worse, led the program to where it is today. That was probably six or seven years later where somebody else might recognize it. [5], He died at his home on May 12, 2015, after an extended illness, alongside his family. 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. But the Tar Heels suffered a soul-crushing NCAA Tournament loss that also ended Phil Fords career. Hed been given a five-year contract when he took over for Smith, because the administration feared recruits would stop coming if they thought Guthridge could retire at any moment. He coached 1997-98 National Player of the Year Antawn Jamison 99 and 1998-99 NBA Rookie of the Year Vince Carter 99, both of whom entered the NBA draft after their junior seasons. Both played college ball in that state -- Smith at Kansas, Guthridge at Kansas State -- and coached at their alma maters before coming to North Carolina. How might everything be different? Having grown up in North Carolina and gone to school here and worked here, I think it was probably just destiny.. 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. School officials stressed that Guthridge was not merely a placeholder for then-Kansas coach Roy Williams, signing him to a five-year contract. Guthridge was the longtime assistant to UNC coach Dean Smith, who died earlier this year. He wouldve been gone. Theres no right answer, no certainty. Born in Parsons, Kansas,[2] Guthridge attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, and graduated with a B.S. When he retired as head coach in 2000, he knew he wouldnt be able to get through telling his staff about his departure. The emotion was there, its just that it was often Guthridge providing it. And with Guthridge having gotten his shot, there would have been no issues of whose turn it was. You come up one year, and that year you win the national championship. That season, he led the Tar Heels to a 34-4 record and the final No. As he would prepare for a basketball practice or game, he was equally intense about attention to detail in scheduling or whatever.. 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. In fact, he communicated as much to Baddour after Baddour was tapped in late June to replace John Swofford as athletic director. It was the 14th time Guthridge participated in the Final Four. 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. Thank you Coach Gut for the many lessons you taught us at UNC. When Smith was needlessly ejected from the 1991 Final Four, it was Guthridge who was furious in the tunnel after the game. You will be missed. Guthridge could deal with Dean's irritability, his need to control the smallest things. Only in Chapel Hill would a two-time Final Four coach, an Atlantic Coast Conference champion, and a consensus National Coach of the Year award winner be best known as an assistant. But it really wasnt and we both knew it. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? But he was also one of the most passionate members of the Carolina basketball family in the last 50 years, and was completely devoted to the Tar Heels, to Smith, and to the University of North Carolina. "You get old." Bill and Dean, friends for life Smith. 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. Why would you stay? The next day, Kenny Smith said, assistant coach Bill Guthridge wasn't at practice. However, it was Coach Guthridges incurable heart condition that led to his development of vascular dementia, and with its progression, his placement for the last several years in a Chapel Hill assisted living facility. As good a person as I ever met. His loss is deeply felt by our university and the basketball world. Really, a championship or not is the only major differentiator between Smith and Guthridge. Smith died on Feb. 7 after suffering for years from a neurological disorder that robbed him of his memories. 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. in mathematics in 1960 and an M.A. The team fundamentally changed, that opportunity disappearing into the ether. 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. On the day of Smiths retirement, The Washington Post reported Smith wants his other longtime assistant, former Tar Heels point guard Phil Ford, eventually to become the coach, a source said. Ford was arguably Smiths best player ever, and UNCs all-time leading scorer at the time. In our prayers. 1 "The End of Absence" Michael Harris, Pt. Guthridge would still call on Smith, after all, to speak to the team at certain times. He led the program to a pair of Final Four appearances in three seasons at the helm before retiring following the 1999-2000 campaign. He never called me at home, unless it was something dire, Hanners says, but he said, How would you feel about meeting me in the office early on Monday at 7 to go over some things before everyone gets there? Hanners obliged, trying to ease Guthridges feeling that he was somewhat out of touch. Who will win each 2023 conference tournament? He was named National Coach of the Year in 1997-98 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Atlanta Tipoff Club (Naismith Award), CBS/Chevrolet, the Columbus (Ohio) Touchdown Club and The Sporting News. He led his first team to the 1998 Final Four and had two players, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, selected in the top five . But part of me, at the end of the day, thinks Coach Williams was destined to end up back here. #RIP. Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report. 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. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Williams famously turned him down, opting to remain at Kansas, where hed built a Carolina-esque family dynamic (at Smiths alma mater, to boot). Guthridge went 80-28 from 1997 to 2000 before retiring in June 2000. Former UNC Coach Bill Guthridge passed away last night at age 77 w/ family at his side. While a student at Kansas State, Guthridge played guard under head coach Fred "Tex" Winter, and helped the team advance to the 1958 Final Four. 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 had recently been in an assisted living facility in Chapel Hill. (Updated at 2:22 p.m.) By Elizabeth A. Davis Associated Press Writer North Carolina coach Bill Guthridge retired Friday after three years as Dean Smith's successor, a move that opens one of the . Its not fair, but thats just the way it is for assistant coaches, Smith said. 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. 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. One of his most tempestuous relationships had been with guard Shammond Williams, who even walked off the court at Virginia on one occasion. 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North Carolina made 10 trips to the Final Four and won two national championships during the time Smith and Guthridge spent together. Guthridge coached three years and took the Tar Heels to two Final Fours. The picture most Tar Heel fans will have of him is sitting slightly behind Dean Smith, perhaps leaning over to make a point to the head coach. #RIP, "It has been a trying time for the University of North Carolina basketball program over the past four months, and our thoughts and prayers are with them again today," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. After Smith retired in October 1997, then-athletic director Dick Baddour elevated Guthridge to the top job. Recharge your batteries, they told him. 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. Now Guthridge, 77, is enduring a similarly cruel fate . He couldnt generate enough energy to get through all of that., Some background: In the years leading up to his retirement specifically every spring after the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament Smith expressed a sense of exhaustion to the people around him. Ndiaye even tried cracking the ice by joking that Guthridges years as head coach probably hadnt hurt his wallet. He was 77 years old. The little doo-doos got him in the end, Hanners says. Kansas chancellor Robert Hemenway said the school was privileged to have Williams. And so even as the coachs hair changed from dark brown to gray to white, his position never did. Conference tournament champion. What you saw was the quiet assistant sitting on the bench. When coach Smith retired in 1997, after a tenure of 36 season, Guthridge took over the job to begin a reign of great basketball playing at UNC. But if Williams had said no, as he did two years later, would Ford have been tapped for the job then? In 2000, the Tar Heels struggled in the regular season, falling out of the polls for the first time since the start of the 199091 season. Graduate of the University of North Carolina. 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. Guthridge didn't bother to recruit Jason Williams, conceding him to K, even though Jason reportedly had an interest in UNC. 33 yrs on UNC bench. All the scheduling calls, speeches for adoring donors, piles and piles of paperwork that accompanied seemingly everything he did. 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. I really liked the attitude of the team, the way they worked hard and how they were rewarded finally. Coach Smith had so many strengths and very few weaknesses. Guthridge had ample opportunities to leave Chapel Hill and become the head coach of his own program. And he said, Im not crying because we won. Assistant coach Phil Ford is at right. He is one of five people to have appeared in the Final Four as both a player and coach. He tried to do every one of those little things that drove Coach Smith crazy. 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. Some fans criticized Guthridge last season when the Tar Heels went through a four-game losing streak in January and entered the post-season with 13 losses. Matt Doherty, who played at UNC while Guthridge was an assistant and then became the school's head coach after Guthridge retired, sent along his condolences: Thank you Coach Gut for the many lessons you taught us at UNC. He was 77. In our prayers. Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. How would his retirement alter the short- and long-term trajectory of a program built on consistency? The University is currently operating under normal conditions. It left at 1:57 p.m. His reasoning? But Guthridges request also made Hanners realize that plan might not come to fruition. 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So why leave?, His dry sense of humor was legendary among his players. In fact, most of that team reconvened in St. Louis in 2005 for Williams first championship game at North Carolina. He is probably best remembered for his loyalty to Smith, who died in February at age 83. Guthridge said he took a vacation in Europe in May, hoping to recharge, but wasnt able to. So was Williams always fated to end up back at North Carolina? I think its time I make this decision. Former UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour: Bill was one of the most respected and admired people I have known. After Coach Guthridges retirement in 2003, he and Coach Smith stayed in close contact, visiting each other frequently. He always knew what he was doing.. The Tar Heels finished first or tied for first in the ACC regular season 16 times, finished second or tied for second in the ACC regular season 11 times and finished third or tied for third in the ACC regular season six times. Guthridge took over when Smith retired after 36 seasons in October 1997. My time is in the past now and we have to move forward.. He has a keen sense of which ones will be very good players and which ones may be overrated. All the things he couldnt do during the daunting in-season months. Former UNC coach, assistant Guthridge dies, Sizing up the player of the year winners in all 32 Division I men's conferences, Tide's Oats takes blame for Miller's 'TSA' intro, Davis within 25 points of tying Maravich's mark, New NCAA president readies for NIL, legal issues, Scheyer makes history as Duke sweeps at home, Tennessee win soured by knee injury to Zeigler, USC, OU, Seton Hall, Iowa in new hoops tourney, Houston, Alabama remain atop AP Top 25 poll. 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