The Guy Selling Phil Ford’s 2000 Final Four Ring Clearly Hates Tyler Hansbrough

Brian Barbour on August 25th, 2008 |

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If you have $5000 you can buy a 2000 Final Four ring that apparently once belonged to Phil Ford off ebay. Ford was an assistant at UNC under Bill Guthridge, his last with the program before Hurricane Matt came in a fired everyone who ever worked for Dean Smith. Anyway, two curious lines from the decsription makes me wonder if the seller has been paying any attention to UNC basketball in the past three plus years:

Many consider Ford to be the greatest player ever at North Carolina (sorry MJ).

Many probably do and by the end of November they will be wrong statistically speaking when Tyler Hansbrough drops Ford down to #2 on the all time scoring list.

Ford, Jamison and Michael Jordan are the only Tar Heel players to win the John Wooden Award as the nation’s top player. Carolina is the only school to have three different payers win the Wooden Award.

Then is it safe to assume UNC is also the only school to have four different players win the Wooden Award? Or as JP Giglio at ACC Now put it:

1) Does Tyler Hansbrough’s Wooden Award make the ring valuable?

Probably. What I cannot imagine is paying any lofty price tag for what is essentially a consolation ring from a team that basically played one four game stretch of good basketball all season long.

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Wilf

August 25, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Sorry, but this is really foggy to me. Ford is indeed one of the greatest players, but why would an assistant coach’s ring be worth more than the actual players final 4 ring? As for the greatest, it goes back (to me) as to what they did for the team..I look at it more as Most Valuable, not best or greatest.

And to me, the “consolation ring” would only be ultra valuable if they win a national championship the next year. That would/does show a player elevates his team, just not himself. It’s impossible to compare these guys, each situation is so different.

I could never pick my best UNC player, but I could certainly come up with a top 10? Anyone have spare any time until October 24th? Maybe THF can come up with a little poll on the greatest players??