Is This How You Would Run Your Business?
Okay, here is the deal. This is not a game of amateur sportsmanship amongst
schools. It is a business. So, I ask you what other highly successful
business (yes I compare UNC basketball to a top business) would allow such
shoddy results? None. No company or business would take what Coach Guthridge
has given us. He would be fired, asked to resign or accept another position.
So, this abuse that he takes from the fans is acceptable. Anyone, who
supports Carolina basketball has the right to voice a complaint. They are
the ones who support the program through merchandise, tickets, student fees,
and/or like me contribute to the program(and it is not that
much). They are still loyal fans to the program.
Would anyone who invests in mutual funds let their funds manager continue to
invest with your money after he/she has done poorly for two years? I hope
the answer would be a resounding NO. Well, Carolina has invested this year
in five McDonald All-Americans and another on the bench(Ronald Curry). Can
anyone name another school who starts five McDonald All-Americans. If you
guessed Cincinnati, Duke, Temple, Michigan State or Kentucky you are wrong.
UNC is the only school to start five. That is a poor return on an
investment.
The Tar Heels are expected to win year in and year out. So, it is assumed
that the current regime under the sixty-two year old head coach has failed.
His staff and himself has driven a proud program into the dirt. It is filled
with players who only show emotions only when watching wrestling at the
Smith Center(Kris Lang) and under-aged drinkers at night clubs(Will
Johnson). I have followed Carolina basketball closely for almost seventeen
years. I have never ever seen anything like this. The 89-90 season was the
worst before this season, but the players(Lynch, Hubert Davis, Rick Fox
etc.) played with emotion even beating number one seeded Oklahoma before
getting drilled by Arkansas in the sweet sixteen. This team lacks leadership
from cadre to soldier and no one seems to even care.
So, I agree with Clemson when they move out a football coach. They have
tasted the blood of success(for years they were the top football team in the
South). It is acceptable for them to want to get back to the state of
success they once enjoyed(defeated BYU in the '81 Orange Bowl for their only
national championship). They understand that major college sports is a
business and they are trying to return to that state. The only thing
Carolina fans are asking for is a new coach to the right the ship. That
is the reason why we have great sites like this one..
-- Anonymous Submittal
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