Celebrating Basketball Recruiting Guru, UNC Grad Brick Oettinger

Posted Feb 21, 2022
From 1974, when Brick Oettinger started freelancing for newspapers in Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro and Raleigh, all the way into 2022, he has been among the most consistent, reliable, influential voices in a corner of the sports journalism world that gradually has grown from an intriguing but tiny niche into a mega-million-dollar industry. (Chapelboro.com)

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