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Herb Sendek is going to Providence!

Did y'all know that Georgia Southern has a player (nick)named Spudd Webb? https://gseagles.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/spudd-webb/7228

To me, this isn’t about any one player or situation, it’s about the idea, often floated on Carolina message boards, that OAD recruiting was very pay-based and that’s why Carolina fell behind others, while ignoring that over the years of the OAD era, Carolina did about as well, on the whole, as...

I’m highly suspicious of claims that everyone else but us was paying recruits yet we reasonably routinely got highly ranked recruits without doing so.

Carolina had a HoF coach & a famous university and, in 2013, I'm not sure that dook had many more NBA players/FO folks than we did.

In that circle you'd have maybe 10,000 people who care about athletics at those universities (and MIT is D3, so they wouldn't even be eligible for realignment). And, of course, the Ivies dropped out of highly competitive football decades ago, don't offer athletic scholarships or NIL, and would...

A couple more comments... I think US Olympic team association is way oversold in terms of dook suddenly becoming a OAD machine. Coach K had been the coach for 8 years when dook pivoted to recruiting a lot of OADs. I'm not saying the association with USA Basketball wasn't helpful, but I don't...

Because the power schools care more about markets and tv eyeballs than they actually care about academics. Whatever breaks away, they're going to want representation in the 9th most populous state (and rising) in the US. And Carolina is the school in the state with the largest fanbase.

I agree that Roy recruited OAD talent and didn't get them, but I also think Roy often recruited OAD talent with one arm that he'd tied behind his own back (and then the NCAA stuff tied the other one back there). A lot of OAD talent wanted promises of guaranteed starter roles, playing time, a...

I think that he intentionally made a choice that he wasn't willing to make the promises (or pay the required amounts) necessary to get many of them. It wasn't something forced upon him by the basketball gods nor the University and there was nothing external stopping him from doing so. He...

Roy certainly made a choice to prioritize multi-year players, which is a big part of why he didn't get as many of the OADs once that era really kicked off. Even when Roy recruited highly-rated players, he often went after ones who had a hole in their game (height, athleticism, shot-making) that...

dook started their OAD model recruiting with the HS class of 2014. But, yeah, it was certainly a choice they made back then that has paid off now. Not going after those players on a large-scale basis worked for Roy because he molded players into a team over a number of years, but it's created...

OMG, there’s a t-shirt…