Comments on: Guthridge: Yeah, Sorry I Did Not Talk Roy For Three Years

By: heeledsoul

heeledsoul — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:38:05 +0000

Gut is a loyal Tar Heel who served as the assistant coach to coach Dean for so long. For all that loyalty, I would give him a break. If Roy and Gut are over it, why should we whine about it? Plus, I don’t fault Gut for the lack of recruiting success. I mean, everybody knew he was a placeholder. Aside from the fact that it’s Carolina, would you go play for a team whose head coaching position is in question? Would you send your kid there when there are other more stable options?

I’m over it. I celebrate all our coaches that I got to “experience.” Coach Dean, Gut, Roy and even Doh. Can’t have the fantastic without the occasional bad. We’re all stronger for it.

By: uncgirl50

uncgirl50 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:34:36 +0000

D, I did hear that and I’m so happy for him! He’s a fantastic player and I’m so glad he got that opportunity!

By: DfromFlorida

DfromFlorida — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:31:17 +0000

Speaking of Bobby Frasor, UNCGirl50, did you know he is playing in Bulgaria now? I just ran across the info that he just arrived there a few days ago. Go Bobby and BEST of luck! Must be very exciting (and maybe a little scary too!) Guess I will have to start following European basketball too.

By: chuckheel85

chuckheel85 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:31:13 +0000

According to Art Chansky, the “original” plan was for Guthridge to coach only in 1998, retire, and Roy would have taken the job then. Roy was also prepared to take the job after the 1999 season, but Guthridge didn’t want to retire after the Heels went out in the first round to Weber State…He didn’t want that legacy.
During the 2000 season, Roy got rejuvenated by the players he recruited in Gooden, Collison and Hinrich and he just didn’t feel he could leave them…

By: Santiago

Santiago — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:21:47 +0000

wb3,
But was it serendipity or intentional? If the latter, that would make him a below-average recruiter, someone who holds a grudge (way too long), and kind of greedy. Sounds to me like the anti-Roy.

By: uncgirl50

uncgirl50 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:24:43 +0000

^ I vote Bobby Frasor!

By: JBowling

JBowling — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:23:53 +0000

I second your position on this THF. This ship is sailing in the right direction. Maybe all of this was grooming for what we may have to endure in the future, God forbid Roy retire soon. Thing is, the next-go-round may be an entirely different set of options and criteria, as there is no great coach waiting for this opportunity. Next time it will likely be outside the family all-together. I hope that is waaayyyy down the road.

By: uncgirl50

uncgirl50 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:03:00 +0000

Frankly, I’m glad everything worked out the way it did. I mane look at it this way: Would we be the same team that we are today if Roy had come that first time? Would we have these two NCs? Everything worked out for the best. We should let bygones be bygones and celebrate what we have, which is pretty dang good!

By: wb3

wb3 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:01:17 +0000

Actually, I heard guts pension is much, much higher because he was the head coach for three years. I think that is pretty well accepted.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:10:01 +0000

If Gut (and Dean) wanted Roy to come to UNC in 2000, then they should have done a better job recruiting, period. It was beyond unrealistic to expect Roy to leave a KU team that had Kirk Hinrich, Nick Collison, and Drew Gooden as rising sophomores and commitments from Wayne Simien, Michael Lee, and Kieth Langford, to coach a team that relied very heavily on two football players and whose best player could at best be described as mercurial.