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“… North Carolina has done most of its work to retool in a critical spring for the future of Hubert Davis in Chapel Hill, most recently bringing a local kid in Jarin Stevenson home after two years at Alabama. Stevenson has immense potential but never quite found his stride in Tuscaloosa. Right now, he profiles as UNC’s starting power forward next to Arizona transfer Henri Veesaar. The other big add of late at Carolina is former Colorado State guard Kyan Evans, whom Carolina invested heavily in after being involved with several other top guards. Evans is more of a natural combo guard than true point guard, but he made a ton of big shots for CSU during its late-season run to make the NCAA tournament. How he takes to being a more traditional table-setter for the Heels could determine the fate of next season in Chapel Hill. …”

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Men’s Basketball Transfer Portal: With One Week to Go, Latest on How 2025–26 Season Is Shaping Up

The pending House settlement had an impact on the portal and many teams are getting creative in building their rosters.
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Also rom the same article:

“… With options in the portal dwindling, the international market has heated up as an alternative, particularly in positions that are especially depleted in the portal like point guard and center. Expect a slew of high-level commitments coming over from European leagues in the coming weeks. You’ll see a mix of younger top prospects hoping to use college as a springboard to the NBA the way Egor Demin and Kasparas Jakucionis used it this year and older players (many of whom have been playing rotation minutes in high-level pro leagues) hunting a bigger payday in college than they can get in Europe. …”
 


Maybe already has a destination in mind? I haven’t seen any suggested UNC opportunity here but just another day in the Wild West that is the portal.
 
A factor that I think isn't getting enough attention: college basketball is experiencing an exodus of talent quite unlike what we've seen before.

After all, there were two senior classes this past year. Both exhausted eligibility, and were replaced of course by only one freshman class.

Point is: our roster might or might not be improving, but on average all the other rosters in the country will be declining.
 
Heelsandeers said:
Going to Purdue. Who is also bringing back Braden Smith

Hubert: How about Seth Trimble, a player who's never played PG, and a freshman!?
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TBF, we are doing the two combo thing with Evans and Trimble. It worked for Roy pretty well at times and that is how Hubert trained as a coach — and got to the cusp of a natty his first year with RJ and Love (albeit with multiple near-death experiences, including just getting a bid and that Baylor game).
 
nycfan said:
TBF, we are doing the two combo thing with Evans and Trimble. It worked for Roy pretty well at times and that is how Hubert trained as a coach — and got to the cusp of a natty his first year with RJ and Love (albeit with multiple near-death experiences, including just getting a bid and that Baylor game).
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I think I've posted that I didn't believe Hubert's approach required a true PG and still feel that way. But the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction

Seth can't even be considered a "combo". He's shown negative playmaking and isn't a shooter through 3 years

Haven't watched enough Evans to have an opinion on how he develops. Even in a best case it's hard to imagine it's enough
 
Heelsandeers said:
I think I've posted that I didn't believe Hubert's approach required a true PG and still feel that way. But the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction

Seth can't even be considered a "combo". He's shown negative playmaking and isn't a shooter through 3 years

Haven't watched enough Evans to have an opinion on how he develops. Even in a best case it's hard to imagine it's enough
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PG, SG, 2guard, small forward… etc. whatever…
I think in today’s game (and probably HD’s system) you want 2 or 3 of those dawgs on the floor who have a handle to break a press with their dribble, break down defenders and penetrate with the dribble and who can make the smart passes more often than not - it doesn’t really matter what you call them. 1, 2 or 3’s. So having two combo guards like RJ and Caleb on the floor simultaneously wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. It worked out pretty well all the way to the FF one year, once Manek played 4 for the whole game. Don’t forget Leaky was one of those dawgs. He could run PG too, even though he was technically a 3.
But you probably want at least 2 or 3 of those guys on the floor at the same time, to do that stuff. I’m hoping Evans, Seth and Drake can make progress toward those goals.
 
Bigs23 said:
Who is up to the task of creating a better system within this new reality and regulating it? We know it’s not the NCAA.
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Pro leagues take over the monied sports. Turn the college teams into minor leagues and training grounds for the pro teams. Small colleges become single A club teams (like single A minor league baseball teams, owned, managed and regulated by the NBA, NFL, etc). Mid-major teams become AA clubs. The power 5 schools (or whatever) become AAA teams.
No more “student athletes” for those sports. They become pros (like they are now anyway) but they’re under contract. Never attend a class; Portal goes away. Contracts, player union, free agency, salary caps, the whole pro bit.

Non - money college sports remain as they are. Those folks would be the last vestiges of the so-called “student-athlete”. Basically they would just be like intramural teams playing for the good-old alma mater. This is exactly how colleges and Universities do it in Europe and other parts of the world. If their name, image and likeness can generate money for them, so be it. Good on ‘em. If they want to transfer to a new school and play badminton for some other college team, great. Go for it.

But football, basketball and perhaps hockey up north…gotta go with pro club teams.
Baseball? Fuck ‘em. They already got their minor league system. Golf? Tennis? Soccer? Fuck ‘em. They can already go pro anytime they want to as it is.
 
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