Buzz Peterson
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"Robert Bower "Buzz" Peterson, Jr." is an American college basketball coach. Most recently, Peterson was the head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team. He was fired by UNC Wilmington at the conclusion of the 2014 season. Due to lack of wins and he never really gained support from the community of Wilmington after such bad seasons. Peterson was the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team for four years before being fired in 2005. He previously coached a second stint at Appalachian State—he coached the 2009–10 Mountaineers, as well as the 1996 to 2000 squads. Previously, he was the men's basketball head coach at the University of Tulsa and at Coastal Carolina University, a position he held until mid-2007, when he left the program to be executive (Director of Player Personnel) with the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association/NBA.

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We're excited about it and now we're going to try our best to win a championship. But you've got to remember, 10 of our 14 kids are either freshmen or sophomores.

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If we're going to get back in this race then it's going to have to come quickly. I'm a firm believer that you've got to win your home games and go steal some on the road.

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I grew up following Harry Gant and Morgan Shepard as a kid. I've always been a race fan. This is going to be fun for me.

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Leasure showed me some pretty good things down in Costa Rica.

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The rule has been in there. I took Tennessee a few years ago to the Dominican Republic. They have tried to do away with it, but it didn't go through.

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[Football coach] David [Bennett] has done a fantastic job and so has [baseball coach] Gary Gilmore, ... That can only help us by bringing more attention to the great things going on at Coastal. That and the arena.

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She's a competitor - been a basketball player herself. So we don't do anything competitive with cards or monopoly or anything. We just watch movies or watch a ballgame. We keep it like that. We've had our wars before on different things. So we decided it's best we don't do it anymore.

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We talked about it and had a good conversation.

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So to say he pushed for it probably isn't fair. But I think he probably could have stopped it and didn't.

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