Matt Doherty - Former College Basketball Coach and Player
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Matt Doherty is a former North Carolina college basketball player and head coach. He was a member of the 1982 Tar Heels national championship team that featured future Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and James Worthy and future NBA superstar Sam Perkins.
After his playing career, Matt went into coaching and was the head basketball coach at Notre Dame, North Carolina, FAU and SMU. In his first year as head coach with his alma mater, he was the 2001 AP Coach of the Year.
On the podcast today, we talk to Matt about his Final Four memories, winning a national championship, playing with Michael Jordan, his favorite MJ stories, how his faith guides him as a leader and the lessons he learned from his former coach Dean Smith.
Matt's new book: REBOUND: FROM PAIN TO PASSION - LEADERSHIP LESSONS LEARNED is available everywhere books are found.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:14.8 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. I'm excited about today's guest, Matt |
| 0:22.2 | Doherty. He is a former college basketball player and an NCAA champion at North Carolina |
| 0:28.6 | and also a former college basketball coach. He coached North Carolina for a few years |
| 0:33.4 | and Notre Dame as well as FAU, SMU. He was the 2001 AP coach of the year. And he won a national |
| 0:40.7 | championship as a player in 1982 with North Carolina. So if you're thinking college, North |
| 0:46.3 | Carolina, early 80s, yes, Matt Doherty was on a team with Michael Jordan for three years in college, |
| 0:53.5 | all three years of Michael Jordan's |
| 0:55.2 | college career. Matt Doherty was right there with him, and they've become good friends since. |
| 0:59.5 | So it's really a treat to have Matt on the show today. He's got a new book. It's called Rebound |
| 1:04.0 | From Pain to Passion Leadership Lessons Learn. He talks about some of that pain. He talks about where his passion |
| 1:11.9 | lies today, his faith and the importance of his faith, his favorite Michael Jordan story, |
| 1:17.7 | which he shares a couple of them here on the show, and this is a lot of fun. And then he talks |
| 1:21.8 | about what it means to trust the closed door. That's a great leadership lesson that Matt Doherty shares here on the show today. |
| 1:28.9 | And I'm really excited because it's Final Four weekend. It's also Easter weekend. It's opening |
| 1:34.1 | day of Major League Baseball weekend. So lots of cool things happening this weekend in sports. |
| 1:40.6 | And Matt, obviously, is a timely guest with the Final four happening and the championship game coming up on Monday night. |
| 1:47.1 | We also have Easter coming up. And I want to wish all of you a happy Easter, remembering what Easter is about and what we celebrate. |
| 1:53.8 | Good Friday, the death of Jesus on the cross, and Easter Sunday, the resurrection and the life. |
| 2:00.5 | That is Christ. And who we put our faith and trust in |
| 2:03.2 | and we're just so thankful for God and his blessing of sending his son to die for all of us. |
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