.Article credited to: The Daily Tar Heel/ Daniel Blank

When North Carolina wrestling coach Bill Lam first stepped foot in Carmichael Auditorium 30 years ago, there was nothing.

There were no championship banners hanging from the rafters, no budget, no scholarships, and he could count the fans at the first match on one hand. When he called his first team meeting, four athletes (whose names he can recite at a moment's notice and include Charles Moose) attended.

And now, as Lam prepares to enter Carmichael for the last time when the Tar Heel take on Campbell at 7 p.m. today 14 ACC Championship banners hang from the ceiling. Most players are on scholarship, the program is about a year from being fully endowed, and more than 3,000 fans--including Dean Smith and almost every head coach in the Department of Athletics--showed up for Lam's last conference home match, a 22-12 shellacking of archrival N.C. State on Feb.11... read full Daily Tar Heel article