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I dont know if this is up on here yet, so if it is, just delete it

http://www.news-record.com/content/2009 ... oint_coach

HIGH POINT — Safe to say, no other coach in NCAA Division I basketball knows more about forklifts than Scott Cherry.

Also safe to say, those three years between his playing and coaching days, when he worked as a forklift salesman in Greenville, are not why High Point University hired Cherry this week.

Something else on Cherry's resumé prompted High Point administrators to give the former North Carolina shooting guard his first job as a head coach.

"He's won every place he's ever been," Panthers athletics director Craig Keilitz said, "and that's no coincidence."

High Point introduced Cherry as the university's 11th men's basketball coach Thursday afternoon at the Millis Athletic Center in a lavish ceremony complete with cheerleaders, rousing music and swirling spotlights on the darkened gym floor.

Cherry comes to High Point after 10 winning seasons as an assistant coach at George Mason, Tennessee Tech, Western Kentucky and most recently South Carolina. Those programs went a combined 210-107 with the former Tar Heels player and forklift salesman on staff.

Cherry spoke to a crowd of about 300 gathered in the Millis Center bleachers. Dressed in a dark gray pinstriped suit with a new HPU lapel pin and a Panthers' purple tie, the new coach was all business.

He promised hard work for the 13 players gathered near him on the court. He promised the crowd an up-tempo style of play and to break Winthrop's recent choke hold on the Big South.

As a side note Mr. Cherry was seen at a bar before his speech drinking heavily.....

He's from Carolina. Of course they're playing up-tempo.

Rocketfan wrote:As a side note Mr. Cherry was seen at a bar before his speech drinking heavily.....

Good news is, He found some drinking partners who are HPU alum and can teach him a thing or 2 about Basketball at HPU