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roseplantqueen's review against another edition
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I have to say that some of this book is accurate. Major events that have happened between the Duke and North Carolina basketball programs are depicted in their proper dates and time in this book. But some of it is not. Take, for instance, when Matt Doherty was hired at Notre Dame, briefly mentioned before the book launches into Doherty's tenure as UNC coach. Chansky claims that Dean Smith and Roy Williams cornered Kevin White, a former Notre Dame athletic director, and pressured White into giving Doherty the Notre Dame coaching job. There's no way this could've happened, not if Kevin White took the athletic director job after Doherty was coach at Notre Dame. (Doherty was the Notre Dame coach between 1999-2000, and White was the athletic director at Notre Dame from 2000-2008.)
Chansky also has some unappealing racial biases. He describes the members of the 2002-03 UNC men's basketball team as (supposedly?) being dressed as "gangsta garb" upon the dismissal of Doherty as UNC coach. Not only does that statement smack of a man I envision looking like Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud, it shows, to me, that Chansky has little respect for the players he's writing about, not unless they're dressed up to his standards.
I'd advise people to skip this book. There are so many other books I'd recommend well ahead of this book, at least from the UNC perspective of things (sorry, Duke fans): Adam Lucas' (the GoHeels.com columnist) UNC books; Hard Work, Roy Williams' autobiography (which also has a different perspective of events like Doherty's tenure as head coach of UNC); and John Feinstein's The Legends Club, which is also written from an outsider's point of view, but has a neutral, non-judgemental tone and is more accurate than this Chansky book.
Chansky also has some unappealing racial biases. He describes the members of the 2002-03 UNC men's basketball team as (supposedly?) being dressed as "gangsta garb" upon the dismissal of Doherty as UNC coach. Not only does that statement smack of a man I envision looking like Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud, it shows, to me, that Chansky has little respect for the players he's writing about, not unless they're dressed up to his standards.
I'd advise people to skip this book. There are so many other books I'd recommend well ahead of this book, at least from the UNC perspective of things (sorry, Duke fans): Adam Lucas' (the GoHeels.com columnist) UNC books; Hard Work, Roy Williams' autobiography (which also has a different perspective of events like Doherty's tenure as head coach of UNC); and John Feinstein's The Legends Club, which is also written from an outsider's point of view, but has a neutral, non-judgemental tone and is more accurate than this Chansky book.
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