In his first press conference as UNC coach, Hubert Davis made the following declaration:
“In terms of the staff, you can’t do this job unless you’re a Carolina guy. It’s impossible. You can’t coach here. You can’t recruit here. You can’t work here unless you have been here. You’ve experienced it. You have lived it. And so in terms of the staff, it’s all guys that have experienced this place and believe it and have the passion and the desire that all of us have for this university and this program and these kids in this community.”
Davis made sure that his staff had assistants who had played for Dean Smith (Jeff Lebo), Bill Guthridge (Brad Frederick) and Roy Williams (Sean May) “connecting the generations” as he termed it in that introductory press conference…