I'm a UNC fan. Both my parents are UNC class of '83. But I have tremendous respect for coach K. As much as I hate Duke, coach K is a goat level coach right up there with Dean Smith.

@@4liferssslockedin You are exactly right. Coach Smith was a part of change at UNC before change was actually accepted. However, your accessment of the racism in the South today and in the past still exist. I am an advocate for HBCU for African American athletes, however if you have to attend a PWI it might as well be UNC to start. Thank you for your response.

Thats unfair. It was across the board back then, Dean wasn't the only one trying to change the racist ways. Lefty at Maryland was for letting black athletes in, so was Norm Sloan at State and many more. Dean Smith had the bigger platform so you hear his story more. Duke was anything but "jim crow" they had NYers which was not accepted in the racist ACC but they have very strict academic requirements, i'm a white guy and i couldn't have met all the requirements at Duke, and its not from lack of intelligence, just that my family was poor so i couldn't go to private schools or pay their high tuition

@@4liferssslockedin i'm sayibg, he had the "clout" to do it, others would've simply been fired, its not like they're racist because they couldn't. They have families to feed

Billy Packer is a babbling idiot. Mentioning him here makes no sense. I'm from North Carolina and was a student at UNC when the Smith Center opened. I knew from the start (like it was mentioned in this segment) that Smith never wanted the building to reflect his name and insisted that it be called the Student Activities Center. As University administrators became uncomfortable with the students referring to the building as "The SAC" and even sporting T-shirts that read: The Heels Do It Better In The SAC!", they went back to Smith and TOLD him that the building would be re-named 'The Dean E Smith Center". Dean held firm and said, "Well, we'll only use my name IF the students are also included, so they compromised and it became named "The Dean E Smith Student Activities Center", and the University's own administration threw Smith a curveball behind his back by casually referring to it as "The Dean Dome" to a local writer. From there, it exploded. Ironically, the local writer who first coined the nickname in print was contacted by Smith, and Smith joked, "calling it 'The Dean Dome' makes it sound like I'm BALD!"; after sharing a laugh, the writer told Smith he'd never refer to the arena as "The Dean Dome" again, but said "I doubt I'll be able to influence others". To this day, I consider it a measure of spotting a TRUE UNC fan versus a "newbie fan" or a "blowhard fan" by how they accurately or inaccurately they handle two details. First, the arena is NOT named "The Dean Dome", therefore it should not be called that or referred to that when those words unsettled Smith and in his opinion... dishonored him. Secondly, the school's nickname is "Tar Heels". Two words. Not "Tarheels".

@@4liferssslockedin exactly. UCLA pretty much walked to the NCAA championship game every year. So they'd only have to win one challenging game (championship game)

We would’ve won both either way especially the Michigan one

Funny how they changed the rules and THEN he won his 2 titles ?

Whatever you need to tell yourself so you can sleep at night

@@4liferssslockedin Agreed. Bobby Knight said Wooden didn't have to recruit because he had a "supporter" who paid even NY kids like Alcindor 3500 miles away to go west.

History, and you, will understand better by and by that your comments here are ignorant and also that you ha e no appreciati8nof what it means to be a sportsmanan. So, .mY God. Bless your soul

You sir are a complete idiot. If you knew what you were talking about you would know Jordon Fouled out of that game and time on the bench was because of that. Dean never oppressed Jordon he taught him team basketball in which k when Jordon went back to that in the pros it produced 6 championships .