UNC basketball has always leaned into tradition, should honor it in coaching search
The Tar Heels have one name that's not the top candidate pundits will throw out, but he just may be the best fit at a place where tradition matters.
North Carolina basketball , built by the vision of program patriarch Dean E. Smith , having achieved maximum success under former coach Roy Williams , is at crossroads to maintain its relevancy after five uneven seasons under coach Hubert Davis. The easy route to replace Davis, who was fired after five seasons on Tuesday March 24, would be to go outside of the “Carolina Family.
” And there is a real struggle taking place right now in Chapel Hill, N. C. , between honoring tradition and paving the way forward in a new world of college sports.
Before outgoing athletic director Bubba Cunningham and AD in-waiting Steve Newmark decide on a new coach, they must take strong look at Jerry Stackhouse. Why was Hubert Davis fired? North Carolina says it 'must move forward' There will be more names of potential candidates, who have won big like Gonzaga's Mark Few, Michigan's Dusty May and Billy Donovan with the Chicago Bulls.
Stackhouse is the most credible former UNC player or coach not named Roy Williams or Larry Brown who could take the job. And Carolina being Carolina, the first look should always be from within even when, on the surface, there's not an obvious choice like Williams when he returned in 2003. UNC has always viewed itself from within as being above the fray in college athletics.
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