There was a time at Carolina when you had Dean Smith, Karen Shelton, and Anson Dorrance coaching at the exact same time. It’s remarkable to have one iconic coach tied to a sport at your school at a given time, but to have three is unconscionable.
The last of this triumvirate decided to hang up his whistle on Friday. Plenty will be typed about his contributions to the women’s game and the stacks of championships he won. His level of dominance is almost unheard of at any level of college sport, and what's remarkable is that, even when the sport caught up to him, he still managed to maintain such a level of excellence that the Heels remained perennial National Championship contenders.