Tar Heel All-Time Basketball Superlatives

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Hippest

Hippy-est

Most GQ

Best Hair

Country-est

Most likely to be elected to office

Highest Threshold of Pain

Most Intellectual

Closest call coming out of high school to going to dook

Closest call coming out of high school to going to state college

Most likely to be a millionaire by a way other than sports career

Most musical

Most New Yawk

Best at another sport other than Julius Peppers

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donbosco said:
Have some fun...

Hippest

Hippy-est

Most GQ

Best Hair

Country-est

Most likely to be elected to office

Highest Threshold of Pain

Most Intellectual

Closest call coming out of high school to going to dook

Closest call coming out of high school to going to state college

Most likely to be a millionaire by a way other than sports career

Most musical

Most New Yawk

Best at another sport other than Julius Peppers

Add one of your own...
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I was looking at old pictures of 60s and 70s athletes hoping to see some cool hair. I think the coaches or the athletic administration made them all keep it in check. Phil Ford had a mini fro that looked pretty cool, but mostly pretty vanilla. The kids from the last decade or so definitely have the best hair.
 
Best at another sport?
  • Randy Weil definitely gets a vote
  • Ronald Curry
Most likely to be elected to political office?
  • Richard Vinroot, former mayor of Charlotte
 
"Pat Conroy that he later wrote in My Losing Season, "I will never forget the dark fire of Larry Miller" – unaware that just hours later Miller almost fell out of a thirteenth-floor window in a girls' dorm… The night he upstaged Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels in concert… "

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Most Intellectual and Most likely to be a non-sports millionaire: Rusty Clark - A Morehead Scholarship offer lured Rusty away from Davidson to UNC. After graduating, he attented medical school at UNC. Was a physician in Fayetteville, but left medicine to focus on real estate and got very wealthy in real estate. When Rusty was an intern at Memorial Hospital at UNC, I was working as a night orderly (in Gravely Sanitorium). When we had to move a heavy patient, Rusty would always take the head/shoulders and let me take the feet. Once one of the nurses, who didn't know who Rusty was asked about him and how tall was he. I told her he had been a really good basketball player at UNC and he was "six eleven." Rusty overheard me and said, "I'm really only six nine."

ETA: In re Rusty Clark only being 6'9" As mentioned previously, UNC used a Morehead Scholarship to lure Rusty from Davidson to UNC. The Davidson coach at that time was Lefty Driesell and he was PISSED at losing Clark. Shortly after this, Driesell moved from Davidson to Maryland. So everytime Clark had a great game against Maryland, of which there were many, Driesell would go on and on about the "seven footer" UNC had at center. I think this was Driesell way of tring to upset Clark. So while Clark was always listed at 6'11", he was careful to correct me. So he must have hated Driesell taunting him about being a seven footer.
 
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Most likely to be a millionaire by a way other than sports career?

Steve Previs.
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Good call on Steve Previs. Always liked him as a player. Had no idea how successful his post-UNC life had been. No way that his modest career at UNC paved the way for later highly successful life, other than Dean Smith instilling the "Carolina work ethic" into him.
 
05C40 said:
Most Intellectual and Most likely to be a non-sports millionaire: Rusty Clark - A Morehead Scholarship offer lured Rusty away from Davidson to UNC. After graduating, he attented medical school at UNC. Was a physician in Fayetteville, but left medicine to focus on real estate and got very wealthy in real estate. When Rusty was an intern at Memorial Hospital at UNC, I was working as a night orderly (in Gravely Sanitorium). When we had to move a heavy patient, Rusty would always take the head/shoulders and let me take the feet. Once one of the nurses, who didn't know who Rusty was asked about him and how tall was he. I told her he had been a really good basketball player at UNC and he was "six eleven." Rusty overheard me and said, "I'm really only six nine."

ETA: In re Rusty Clark only being 6'9" As mentioned previously, UNC used a Morehead Scholarship to lure Rusty from Davidson to UNC. The Davidson coach at that time was Lefty Driesell and he was PISSED at losing Clark. Shortly after this, Driesell moved from Davidson to Maryland. So everytime Clark had a great game against Maryland, of which there were many, Driesell would go on and on about the "seven footer" UNC had at center. I think this was Driesell way of tring to upset Clark. So while Clark was always listed at 6'11", he was careful to correct me. So he must have hated Driesell taunting him about being a seven footer.
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Rusty Clark’s last season at UNC was 1969.

Lefty’s last season at Davidson his team went 27-3 and lost in the East Regional Finals to UNC. He had lost in the 1968 Regional Finals to UNC.

In 1970, Lefty was at Maryland. He went 13-13.
 
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