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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts) Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:21 AM Feb 2015

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BREAKING: Coach Dean Smith, retired coach of the UNC BB team, has passed.

@ZacEllis:
Sad news per @UNC_Basketball: Former head coach Dean Smith has passed away at age 83. http://t.co/oGqdS0sbKO

Here is an article about what he did:
http://www.sportsinblackandwhite.com/2012/10/27/meet-dean-smith/

A salute to a true warrior. He stood up for equality when few did. He was much more than a basketball coach.
RIP Coach Smith....
You fought the good fight.

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BREAKING: Coach Dean Smith, retired coach of the UNC BB team, has passed. (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Feb 2015 OP

Wonderful man! HERVEPA Feb 2015 #1

I hate UNC basketball and always have. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2015 #2

Whoa. cwydro Feb 2015 #3

oh wow . . . RIP Coach DrDan Feb 2015 #4

May he rest in peace Gothmog Feb 2015 #5

RIP to an avid Democrat octoberlib Feb 2015 #6

Rest in Power, Dean Smith. DinahMoeHum Feb 2015 #7

Integrated the ACC back in the 1960s. Elwood P Dowd Feb 2015 #8

NY Times obit big_dog Feb 2015 #9

Dean Smith was a hell of a coach hifiguy Feb 2015 #10

HERVEPA

(6,107 posts)

1. Wonderful man!

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:25 AM

Feb 2015

Had the guts to speak up about the death penalty, among many other things.
head and shoulders above most of the automatons coaching these days.

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

2. I hate UNC basketball and always have.

Reply to HERVEPA (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:34 AM

Feb 2015

That said, I had nothing but great respect for Coach Smith.

He had Alzheimer's so in one way this is a blessing.
Sad at the same time.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

3. Whoa.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:34 AM

Feb 2015

NC is going to go into mourning now.

DrDan

(20,411 posts)

4. oh wow . . . RIP Coach

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 10:35 AM

Feb 2015

Gothmog

(145,313 posts)

5. May he rest in peace

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:43 AM

Feb 2015

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)

6. RIP to an avid Democrat

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:49 AM

Feb 2015

who not only talked the talk, he walked the walk.

DinahMoeHum

(21,794 posts)

7. Rest in Power, Dean Smith.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 01:48 PM

Feb 2015

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)

8. Integrated the ACC back in the 1960s.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 02:42 PM

Feb 2015

Had a 96% graduation rate.

Spoke out against the Vietnam War.

big_dog

(4,144 posts)

9. NY Times obit

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Reply #8)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 02:44 PM

Feb 2015

Coach Dean Smith, Champion of College Basketball and of Racial Equality, Dies at 83 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/sports/ncaabasketball/dean-smith-longtime-university-of-north-carolina-basketball-coach-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

10. Dean Smith was a hell of a coach

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 03:01 PM

Feb 2015

and a damned fine human being. RIP, sir.

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