UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesdav. August 19. 1992
5B
Tar Heel influence grows on Hawk bench
By Randy Rosetta Special to the Kansan
It's no coincidence that the basketball programs at the University of Kansas and the University of North Carolina seem to mirror each other.
North Carolina coach Dean Smith played at Kansas in the early 1950s for legendary Jayhawk coach Phog Allen. Kansas coach Roy Williams played briefly for the Tar Heels and was an assistant 10 years for Smith before becoming coach of the Jayhawks in 1988.
So it should be of little surprise that when Williams went looking for an assistant coach to fill the void left by the departures of Jerry Green and Mark Turgeon to Oregon late last spring, he added yet another link to the Kansas-North Carolina chain.
Matt Doherty, who was recruited by Williams in 1979 and went on to enjoy a quiet successful four-year career in Chapel Hill, was named as Kansas' restricted-earnings coach on May 5. Doherty's duties will include under-class recruiting, scouting coordination and pre-season conditioning, many of the responsibilities that Williams held in his early years with Smith at North Carolina.
"He is starting out at a similar level to what Roy did when he first got here," said longtime North Carolina assistant coach Bill Guthridge. "And they are also very similar in the way they go about their jobs. Matt has an
extremely good work ethic as a player, and I would guess that he has developed a similar coaching style. That alone will allow him to work well with Roy because there aren't many coaches in the game that work as hard as he does."
Doherty is no stranger to hard work. In his years at North Carolina (1980-84), the 6-foot-8 guard/forward was identified by his team-oriented efforts on squads stocked with players later to be NBA stars. After his junior year, Doherty was named Carolina's outstanding defensive player. Though never a spectacular scoreer, rebounder or assist man, Doherty was a model of consistency, and during his senior season became only the second player in the long, illustrious history of the Atlantic Coast Conference to accumulate 1,000 points, 400 rebounds and 400 assists.
"From the time I recruited him and saw him play in high school, it was fairly obvious that Matt was a tremendous team player. Williams said. He was very important to the success we had at North Carolina in those four years because he was so interested in helping in a team sense."
Thanks in part to Doherty's efforts, 1980-84 is still considered one of the great eras in Tar Heel history. In each of Doherty's first two years as a Tar Heel, Carolina advanced to the NCAA championship game, beating Georgetown in 1982 on a late jumper by a freshman named Michael Jordan.
ty started on a team that Smith has called the best he's coached in 30 years at the school. Joining Doherty in the first five were Jordan, Sam Perkins, Brad Daugherty and Kenny Smith. All are still active in the NBA, and all except Smith have been All-Stars at least once.
Later, as a senior in 1983-84, Doher
"On that team, I basically played wherever Michael Jordan didn't want to," Doherty said, a smile crossing his face. "At the time, it was hard to realize just how good that team was because it seemed like everybody had great players. But now to look back at that and consider that I was a part of that is amazing."
That season, though, also marks one of the more painful memories in Doherty's basketball career. Carolina opened the '83-'84 season 15-0 before Kenny Smith, starting point guard, went down with a broken wrist. Although the Tar Heels still ripped through the Atlantic Coast Conference with a perfect 14-0 record, Doherty said they were never the same.
The Tar Heels fell to Indiana in the second round of the NCAA tournament, a loss that still stings.
"I was more devastated that night than I have ever been before or since," Doherty said, staring blankly at his office wall. "I sat and cried in the locker room for two hours straight. I still have a hard time dealing with it sometimes because of the talent we had on that team and how much we had already accomplished that season."
After graduating in the spring of 1984 with a degree in business administration, Doherty earned a tryout with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
"While I was at Cleveland's camp, I got hurt, and it didn't take me long to realize that I wasn't good enough to play at the next level anyway." Doherty said. "That experience left me a little bitter toward basketball, so it was a good time for me to sever my ties for a while."
To escape basketball, Doherty took a job on Wall Street in New York City as a government bond salesman. For three years, even though he was successful, Doherty found little happiness.
"I wasn't in the pits like you always see on TV where people are running around and screaming, but it did get a little crazy sometimes," he said.
For recreation, Doherty spent his afternoons and some evenings playing basketball at New York's Downtown Athletic Club.
"There were some good players who showed up, and a lot of guys who weren't that good but were very competitive," Doherty said. "A lot of stock brokers and Wall Street guys went down there, and you could tell by the way they played ball that they must have been good at their jobs."
Doherty was also good at his job, but he knew he was out of place. Finally, in August of 1988, he walked away.
lad off." Doherty recalled: "I probably would have been next, and I was pretty burned out. So one day I walked up to the boss, tapped him on the shoulder and told him I was leaving. He asked me what time I'd be back, and I had to explain to him that I was really leaving."
"The economy caused the market to really dry up, and people were getting
While he mapped out his next career step, Doherty kept busy as a broadcaster for both North Carolina and Davidson College basketball games. It was through his association with Davidson that he caught a break.
Doherty became aware that the school was planning to fire its coach, so he called his former high school coach, Bob McKillop, to let him know. He also let his former coach know that he was ready to return to the court, and when McKillop was named Davidson's coach in 1989, Doherty followed as an assistant.
"Conch Williams told me at the first interview that my experience at Davidson made me a very worthy candidate. Doherty said. "I feel very fortunate to come here with that under my belt because it's not like I'll have to be completely educated on what it takes to be successful."
For McKillop, Doherty was involved with national recruiting, a skill that he said attracted Williams.
Besides his past relationship with Williams, Doherty was also able to help at Williams' last two summer basketball camps. As a result, there was no secret of his desire to come to Kansas when he learned of the opening, he said.
"I never really had to say anything, but I think Coach Williams knew I was interested," Doherty said. "This is something that I have envisioned ever since I first saw Coach Williams on the sideline coaching at Kansas. I told myself that I'd like to be on his bench some day, so this is like a dream come true."
Now that he has rejoined Williams, Doherty said he was looking forward to the challenge of keeping pace with the Jahawk head man.
"He told from the beginning that with everything that goes on in college athletics, the only thing we can do is outwork everyone else." Doherty said. "But to me this isn't work. I get a charge out of the preparation for games, the recruiting process—really everything associated with being a coach."
And coaching under Williams, in a program as esteemed under Kansas' hasn't dampened Doherty's enthusiasm.
"When I was driving here for my first official day, I felt like I was in the first grade," he said. "There was and still is so much excitement on my part to be involved with the KU program. This is like being a little kid at Christmas time who hasn't opened all of his presents yet. I cannot wait until the first game when I walk out on the court and hear 15,800 screaming Kansas fans. It's going to seem like old times."
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