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Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Special Podcast: Taylor Vippolis Speaks with UNC Legend Charlie Scott

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, Taylor Vippolis has on Naismith Hall of Famer Charlie Scott, who was the first African-American scholarship athlete at UNC, to talk with the former star basketball player about his life and the adversity he faced on a daily basis throughout his time in Chapel Hill. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.6

For Inside Carolina, this is Taylor Vipolis, and joining me on the podcast today, we've got our biggest guest ever.

0:56.1

It's Hall of Famer, Charlie Scott,

1:01.3

the first African-American scholarship athlete at UNC where he dominated on the basketball court.

1:06.6

In the late 60s, first, I just wanted to say, thanks for all your contributions to the university,

1:10.3

and thanks for taking the time to come on and talk with me today.

1:17.6

Well, thank you for having me on, and a university has been one of my pride and joys of my lifetime, and I'm just glad to be a part of that great university.

1:21.6

I help coach high school basketball now, and I told two of the coaches I work with that I would be talking with

1:29.8

you today and you should have seen how their faces lit up thinking back to your game almost

1:35.2

to the point that I got jealous that I never got to the chance to watch you live. How would you

1:41.1

describe what your game was like on the court? Oh, you want me this?

1:46.0

I say I was a little bit of Jamesworthy with a lot of Michael Jordan. That sounds okay.

1:51.6

That's a good comparison.

1:57.3

No, no, no, no, truthfully, my biggest asset was the fact that I was 6'5 and very fast.

2:07.6

So speed and height was really my two biggest attributes in basketball, being a guard and being 6'5 at that time, was abnormal.

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