This article below really is shows how some writers can slant things. Needless to say we get lots of crap thats Anti-Steph also. ONe must be fair.

Things about Phil Ford:

He was slated to replace Gutheridge at UNC but year before fell out with another DUI and had to get help. THat had to hurt! Jeff McGinniss, that lovable malcontent just booted off another team was banging his wife when he was in school. That also had to hurt.

Why Phil would leave? Isola suggests its a precurser to Larry leaving. While with larry, anything is possible, its not to be an assistant at Davidson, it would be to accept the head coaching job at North Carolina State! THey play in a great arena, and play in the freakin ACC! Its a high profile good paying job that puts him back in the Raliegh/Durham/Chapel Hill area.

If Phil was offered this job I think Larry would be the first to drive him to Raliegh and force him to sign it!

Im not saying this is an Anti-Larry article, just void of some important facts.

Article:

Brown assistant hunts college job
BY FRANK ISOLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Friday, April 28th, 2006

Larry Brown is not the Knicks coach being linked to the North Carolina State job, but just the mere fact that Phil Ford's name has surfaced in connection with the Wolfpack's vacant head coaching position does raise more questions about Brown's future in New York.
Although Brown insists that he will return next season and the Knicks are saying - at least publicly - that they want the 65-year-old coach to come back, the reports of Ford, one of Brown's assistant coaches, possibly seeking employment elsewhere could be taken several ways.

Maybe Ford believes there is a possibility that Brown won't return, or perhaps Brown gave Ford strong indications that he won't be back. Ford, Dave Hanners and Brendan O'Connor are the three assistants Brown brought with him from Detroit. Brown would want all three to be in position for a job - either with the Knicks or another team - before he parted ways with the club.

The other possibility is that Ford is looking to return to his college basketball roots in his home state. Ford, a legendary player at North Carolina, was an assistant coach for the Tar Heels under Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge. Although Ford never has been a head coach, he was regarded as a top-notch recruiter.

Of course, the idea of the Wolfpack being coached by someone from UNC may be difficult for some to digest.

The News & Observer of Raleigh quoted N.C. State legend David Thompson as saying, "Phil Ford? For the N.C. State job? Wow. That's hard to believe."

The Knicks will not say if the university has asked them for permission to speak to Ford, who told the paper that he is interested in the job.

"I would be very flattered to be considered by N.C. State," Ford said, "and I would do everything in my power to make N.C. State the best program in the country."

Memphis coach John Calipari, West Virginia's John Beilein and former UCLA coach and current ESPN analyst Steve Lavin all have taken themselves out of consideration for the job. Fordham's Dereck Whittenburg, the point guard on the Wolfpack's 1983 championship team, is a candidate.

Brown is said to be on vacation and not expected to return to New York until next week. He wants to help with the workouts for draft prospects, which will begin in several weeks. Brown took an active role in the draft workouts last season even while the Pistons were in the NBA Finals.

Brown don't like contracts.