Saturday, May 22, 2004
I'm Not
With all the coaching changes in college basketball, Dick Vitale is amazed Matt Doherty hasn't gotten another job offer.Yes, Doherty had success at Notre Dame. But his time at North Carolina was marked by mediocre recruiting, poor coach-player relations, and few victories. After he was let go, everyone was left with a sour taste in their mouths. The athletic director who hired an unproven commodity. The coach who had failed at his alma matter. The boosters who had run one of their own out of town. The players who pitied their well-meaning coach.
It isn't one particular facet of Doherty's experience at North Carolina that is keeping him off the coaching carousel. It is, in a strange (and perhaps unfair) sort of way, his "body of work."
