Seymour already was a voice for equal rights for women and for minorities. They called Chapel Hill ‘The next Seattle.’ Here’s how this NC town leapt into spotlight. In 1998, the Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professorship in mathematics was established. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. The native of Greenwood, South Carolina, was born July 13, 1925. Herb Sendek took N.C. State to five straight NCAA tournaments before being run out of town; he wound up at Arizona State and was fired in March after reaching just two NCAA tournaments in nine seasons. Even with the difficult times with the Tar Heels, Blake left a largely positive imprint. At this time, the Department of Athletics asks that fans, friends and acquaintances of Coach Looney keep his family and the football program in their thoughts and prayers.".
My friends, we honor Dean Smith when we support the civil rights for every human being.
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But Guthridge was so loyal to the Tar Heels program that he didn’t even interview for any head coaching jobs after 1978, when he had accepted the post at Penn State, only to turn around en route to his introductory press conference and return to Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels then went 24-10 in 1998-99 but were upset by Weber State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Sign up for the Afternoon Update and get the day’s biggest stories in your inbox. Robert E. Seymour Jr., a longtime voice for civil rights and pastor at Chapel Hill’s Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, died Sunday at the age of 95. Doherty lasted just three years before being forced to resign with a 53-43 record. His foursome had won the competition on the Fairways Course. The ones he did have Coach Guthridge tried to fill. Guthridge initially gained recognition after serving for 30 years as Dean Smith's assistant at the University of North Carolina. Under Seymour’s leadership, Binkley expanded its focus on church membership to people from diverse Christian faiths and walks of life. That includes two as a head coach at Carolina, 10 as a Tar Heel assistant coach and one each as a player and assistant coach at his alma mater, Kansas State. As might be expected, Prestonwood Country Club was littered with Tobacco Road legends. But Guthridge was hardly immune from criticism. When Smith, then the game’s all-time winningest coach, retired in 1997, Guthridge took over and guided the Tar Heels to two Final Fours in three years himself before quietly stepping aside. Looney then moved on to Central Arkansas for the 2014 and 2015 seasons before joining Kirby Smart's staff at Georgia as a graduate assistant for the 2016 season. After another forgettable season in 2003, Doherty was forced to resign. Seymour was able to make things happen, and he understood the problems and the value of the town’s Black communities, said Delores Bailey, a community organizer and executive director of Empowerment Inc. Remembering Bill Guthridge, a longtime assistant under Dean Smith and former head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels. And while Mike Krzyzewski is still winning championships at Duke, among his three assistants that summer were two—Chris Collins and Steve Wojciechowski—who might have seemed like they were in Durham for 30 years before becoming head coaches at Northwestern and Marquette, respectively, but in fact were there fewer years combined (28) than Guthridge spent under Smith in Chapel Hill. As a senior at UNC, I saw him in November 2001 at the Tar Heels’ shocking season-opening loss to Hampton, a harbinger of the disastrous campaign that lay ahead, sitting on the second-level of the Smith Center, but otherwise he was hard to find in the building on game day. He then moved on to East Mississippi Community College as offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator, winning a national championship during the 2013 season. The day was devoted to the memory of late N.C. State coach Jim Valvano. In Guthridge's final season, he went 18-13 -- at the time, the program's worst finish in decades -- but bounced back in the postseason to reach North Carolina's 15th Final Four before losing in the national semifinals to Florida. I barely knew the man, and he surely didn’t know me. “His impact I compare to the old adage, if you stick your hand in a bucket of water and take it out, the hole left is how much a person will be missed,” Lee said of his longtime friend. Seymour continued to be a friend and supporter through good times and bad, Lee said, as he recalled the death threats against his family when they first moved to the then-all-white Colony Woods neighborhood in Chapel Hill. "Because I knew Coach Guthridge had the best interest for you and wanted to see you succeed.". (Scott Sharpe/News & Observer), Standing Together With Our Black Community, Fox Retires; Longtime Assistant Forbes Takes Over, 37 in Athletics Test Positive for COVID-19. The Longest Goodbye: Friends, family mourned Dean Smith before his death. "Coach Guthridge was instrumental in recruiting me to UNC and I have so many great memories of him and the lessons he taught me. Lee was elected Chapel Hill’s first Black mayor in 1969 and then to the state Senate in 1990, where he served for 13 years.
I never spoke to Bill Guthridge again. © 2004-2020 CBS Interactive. As a young man, he enrolled at The Citadel military college “in deference to his father’s wishes,” according to a UNC libraries biography, but chose to become a chaplain after joining the Navy.
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