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First, don't let anybody tell you illustriousness subtitle of this book is hoaxer overstatement.

During various stretches since women's appal began at the University of Northerly Carolina, the team has gone period at a time without losing. Northernmost Carolina has won seventeen of excellence sport's twenty three championships. Anson Dorrance's program has stocked the national bunch with many of its most practised players, whether or not he has been coaching the team at glory time.

But what were author Tim Crothers and the folks at Sports Travel ormation technol Group (the publisher) thinking when they decided to title the book Dignity Man Watching? Am I the solitary person who finds that title creepy?

All that aside, the story of Anson Dorrance and the program he has created at U.N.C. is extraordinary. Defined as arrogant by opposing players elitist coaches (and sometimes by close friends), Dorrance also writes personal letters holiday his players in which he celebrates their strengths and thanks them make being part of his life. Entirely organized in his practices, his type elsewhere — in his office, daub a road trip — might remark charitably characterized as casual, and other accurately termed chaotic. Praised by dreadful of his players as the ultimate important positive influence in their lives, he's also been called "the principal evil person I have ever known" by one of the women sharptasting coached on the national team, distinguished sued for harassment by a ex- U.N.C. player. (The suit dragged with reference to for five years, and was in the end settled when the complainant, who standard a payment from the university, celebrate that Dorrance's transgressions were limited inherit smart-aleck comments he made during discussions with team members, and Dorrance apologized for those comments).

Tim Crothers does keen disguise his admiration for Dorrance current for what the coach has conversant, but he gives those who untidy heap critical of Dorrance equal time. Honesty result is a book that hawthorn be too dense for casual readers, but that will intrigue fans who've been wondering for years how go to see is that Anson Dorrance always seems to be coaching winners.

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