I think, like you, it's a matter of not wanting to rub the staff the wrong way. When asked, and when not asked specifically, IC (collectively) points out that NIL is not the issue that many are attributing the loses of transfers/recruits to.
Most programs that UNC (should be) competing with all have similar academic obligations to UNC.
You post as if you are very high on this staff. Which is why I'm asking you what do you see from them that gives you such faith?
I think it will be the opposite. If things continue to go as they've gone, he's going to lose support and NIL.
My hunch is that the PTB behind the scenes make a push to level up NIL as much as they can to give Hubert the best possible roster next season, and maybe make it contingent on some structural changes to the way he runs the program (hire GM and different approach to recruiting, maybe some changes to the assistant coaching staff). If we continue to struggle after that next season then it’s almost definitely the end of the line.
We had a system to put our football and basketball players into a bogus major to keep them eligible. I’m not saying all or even most of our guys don’t take academics seriously or that other schools don’t do the same thing to make school as easy as possible for their athletes, but come on, we can’t really throw that stone anymore. In any case, I highly doubt that academic rigor is something that factors into whether or not we get recruits.
Thought that Brooker and Curtis Hunter both got a bit of a bad rap. They both had serious injuries after committing and before joining the team, iirc. Hunter ended up being a decent player and neither of them fully recovered.
No way.
Didn't football donations dry up for Mack? I don't think they'd view it as giving up on UNC, I think they'd view it as voicing their displeasure with continuing with HD and this staff.
Well at least I was in the right era. Max actually got some PT though, my memory of the practice hotshot was that he barely played, which is why the whole thing could've been a gag. At any rate, Brooker or Melendez would fit that description better than Owens. Gotta admit, I barely remember Brooker, while Melendez always seemed to have that "wait til next year, just you watch" vibe that never came to fruition...
we aren't holding the kids to ivy level standards but UNC admissions regularly finds issue with various transcripts from HS and transfer portal BB and FB prospects. that doesn't really happen in the SEC.
No, saying that they haven’t done it yet but haven’t had to try to do it yet is not a negative. How could it possibly be a negative? What is a negative is that they have missed more than they have hit with transfers, three misses for every hit. They are going to have to do two things that they haven’t done yet: bring in several high impact transfers at once.
Fair enough. The high amount of non grad transfers is a relatively new wrinkle and it’s definitely more of a challenge for upperclassmen to get enough credits to transfer over for the move to make sense at certain schools. I know Michigan is notoriously stringent about this, and it wouldn’t surprise me if UNC is particular about it as well.
Yes, getting the Williams commit was huge and just took the heat under Coach Davis’ office chair down several notches. Next step: getting NIL in line with other schools and hiring a GM to handle all of that mess, I think we should be ready to roll. Even with Hubert still at the helm.