Dean Smith
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"Dean Edwards Smith" is a retired American Coach (basketball)/head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas/Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the National Collegiate Athletic Association/NCAA Division I (NCAA)/Division I men's basketball record at that time. Smith has the 9th highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%). During his tenure as head coach of North Carolina, the team won two national titles and appeared in 11 Final Fours.

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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Ask yourself this question: If aspirin were the leading cause of death on college campuses, do you think chancellors, presidents, and trustees would allow aspirin commercials on basketball and football telecasts? They wouldn't, not for a minute.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

We need to understand that children start following athletics at the age of nine or ten. These beer ads are highly appealing to them. When beer companies say their ads aren't directed at young people, I find it hard to believe. Do you think the kids don't like the lizards on the Budweiser spots?

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

The NCAA and universities should not be in the business of marketing a product that is the leading cause of death among college students. Also, it should be noted that the alcohol advertising does not leave the younger audiences untouched. Ten year olds are rooting for their favorite teams, meanwhile, being subjected to the promotion of alcohol use.

We've got uniforms pants, boots, t-shirts, underwear and toilet supplies.

If you track the path of Isabel, that's exactly where these trees are dying.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.