With focus, determination, and a strong desire to win the UNC Tar Heels have reach the Championship Game. For this reason Discourse and Jargon will be delaying this week's theory until Tuesday afternoon. Look forward to a return to the roots where D&J started, food and its application to real life.
All day Monday I would love to see predictions, sentimental thoughts, and love poems about the Tar Heels in the comment section.
I'll start.
Wayne, oh Wayne your jumper is devine,
I love how your shot hits nothing but twine.
Once more shoot a Three to push the score higher,
Then we will paint the streets blue and set Chapel Hill on Fire!
4 comments:
Nice tribute to honeysweet.
There are a bunch of haters out there saying that MSU needs to win this game to help the down and out people without jobs in Detroit. Like there aren't people looking for work in NC. If we want to look at who deserves to win this game more, just remember this, folks.
In 1891, a sports coach and innovater named James Naismith invented the game of basketball with two peach baskets and a soccer ball. The sport was created to keep track athletes in shape in the offseason. Naismith later explained the innovation this way, "The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'" I have no idea what "Drop the Hankerchief" is, but I don't think I want to play it either. Naismith would go on to found the basketball program at Kansas University and also is widely credited for creating the first football helmet. Still, he always considered basketball to be his lasting legacy. Naismith later reflected on his invention saying, "I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place."
While at Kansas, Naismith coached a player named Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen. Allen would eventually succeed Naismith as the second basketball coach in the program's history. Once when told by Naismith, the sport's inventor, that basketball couldn't be coached, Phog Allen said, "Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves." Allen was later given the moniker "The Father of Basketball Coaching."
Coach Phog Allen, while at Kansas, coached a player named Dean Smith. In 1952, Smith helped lead Kansas to a national chamiponship and later served as a graduate assistant at Kansas in the 1953-1954 season. Smith watched with disappointment as the Kansas team he helped coach lost the 1957 national championship to the University of North Carolina in triple overtime. After a short stint in the Air Force, Smith was asked to join the staff of Coach Frank McGuire at UNC. In 1961, Coach Dean Smith succeeded McGuire as head coach of the Tar Heels at just the age of thirty. Coach Smith went onto win two championships at UNC and retired in 1997 as the winningest college basketball coach in the history of the sport.
In 1968, a young man named Roy Williams enrolled at the University of North Carolina to play junior varsity basketball and study the game under legendary coach Dean Smith. When Williams was a sophomore at Carolina, he asked Smith if he could attend his practices and would sit in the bleachers taking notes on Smith's coaching. Williams latter joined Smith's coaching staff as an assistant coach and served in that position from 1978-1988. In 1982, Williams was instrumental in the recruiting of a young kid from North Carolina named Michael Jordan. Coach Smith won his first chamipionship on a key shot by the freshman Michael Jordan who went on later to become the greatest player in the history of the sport. And in 2005 after another UNC national championship, Jordan said "How 'bout them Heels?" to me... kind of. It was the greatest moment of my life.
In 1988, Roy Williams left UNC to become the head coach at Kansas. after becoming head coach, his team was placed on probation for violations that occurred before he ever arrived. They missed the NCAA tournament in his first year as coach. He has never missed the tournament again.
In 2003, after losing a national championship at Kansas, Coach Williams left Kansas to come back home to coach the Tar Heels bringing us a national championship in 2005. And in 2009, Coach Williams with one of the best teams in the history of the school seeks to avenge a near miss against Kansas to bring the school and a team that has amassed a 100-14 record over the last three years, led by the previous winner of the James Naismith trophy Tyler Hansbrough, the one jewel in their crown that has eluded them thus far: a national championship.
I say all that to say this: We are basically three clicks away from the invention of the sport. I agree with Roy as he talked about the cause of MSU to win a championship for the down and out of Michigan.
"I do realize they have a cause. Well, we also have a cause, too," he said. "We want to win a national championship, period, the end. And if you would tell me that if Michigan State wins, it's gonna satisfy the nation's economy, then I'd say, 'Hell, let's stay poor for a little while longer.'"
LET'S GO!
I think there are plenty of people who read this blog who'd say that NC needs a boost, too! LET'S GO, HEELS!
I never thought a comment about the economy staying down would get me so hype!!!!
Don't come near me, i might punch you in the face i'm so stoked!
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