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Originally posted by PGCougar
C'mon folks. It's really not that complex. It's about winning. Coach Doherty didn't produce enough W's and the folks around UNC just don't adjust well to the NIT (that's Not In Tournament for the acronym challenged).
Face it. If he had produced winners, he'd still be there and none of this crap would have ever surfaced. Winning hides all sins, losing brings them to the surface. Hell, if Doherty had won the national tournament and said he fed his players milk-shakes made with UNC cow SH## from the Ag school, I bet half of the remaining coaches in this country would have lined up for the recipe with UNC filing for the patent.
Just didn't win enough - that's how I see it.
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The program did that to themselves. They played around with their coach situation while Gutherige (sp?) was the head coach. Potential recruits stayed away not knowing if Gutherige was going to stay or go. And it was not like he was a young man either. Then they bring in Dohrety, who started with Dean Smith and Gutheridge's recruits and won over 20 games. The next year they did not have a good recruiting class mainly because of all the unstable actions by the UNC program. Then he has a good recruiting class this year, but they were the youngest team in America, with all the Freshman and Sophmores on that team. If Carolina did not want to be in this sitaution, they should not have hired a coach that was older and might not stick around that long. They should have hired a young coach then and maybe they might have had a little more success, or at least made the NCAA Tournament. That is largely the AD's fault. Even a problem that might be created with the firing of Doughrety now. I would not be surprised if they struggle next year, regardless of the coach.
Peace