Veazey, Hart compile memories of Dean Smith era
Dan Veazey, far left, with the 1975-76 UNC team.
Dan Veazey was on the bench when Carolina was 8 points down with 17 seconds to go. Dave Hart was there when Michael Jordan hit the shot before it became “The Shot.”
Both are iconic moments in the collective memory of the Carolina Nation. Yet, those are not the stories that spring to mind when Veazey and Hart reminisce about their time as team managers under Dean Smith and his longtime assistant coach, Bill Guthridge.
Dan Veazey and Dave Hart, both Morehead scholars and UNC basketball managers, compiled “The View from the Bench.”Veazey, a Hendersonville physician, tells about the time Coach Smith secured a near-impossible-to-get seat for a huge game for his mother, hours before game time. Hart, a financial adviser in Asheville, recalls how the NCAA gave the team 22 national championship watches after that 1982. Counting players, coaches, trainers and managers, the winning team totaled 23 people. The next day, Smith called Hart into his office.
“Coach Smith thanked me for all the work I had done and handed me a box saying, ‘You
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