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SnoopRob said:
That is a good summation of the current situation, although I would say that tradition & legacy still have some weight, due to the resources and brand that Carolina Basketball has built over 70 years. I would also say that add that this is not the first time that college basketball has faced significant transitions and Carolina Basketball as not only survived but thrived through each of them by being innovative within the sport and the overall system of college basketball.

But a good summation is only the first step to addressing the new reality of college basketball. While the chaos will eventually subside as more rules/guidelines for the transfer portal and NIL are developed, it is highly unlikely that the landscape will go back to anything like what it was just 5 years ago. So the question facing Carolina Basketball is "What does the program do to not only survive but to thrive in this new landscape of NIL & transfer portal?"

Economic history is full of business sectors that were revolutionized by changes in the field and where the leaders of those sectors faced the basic issue of evolving to address the field as it now exists or remaining static & eventually being left behind. A great example of this is Kodak in the camera sector; Kodak was the leader in film cameras, yet created the first digital camera in the 1970s. But they didn't want to adapt to the development of digital cameras by other companies and remained committed to film and film cameras. Despite being the market leader in cameras for decades and being innovators by creating digital photography, Canon and Nikon passed Kodak because Kodak didn't evolve as the market changed. Kodak was out of the consumer camera market by 2012 because they stayed in the film camera business too long and never competently moved over to digital cameras.

Carolina Basketball is at a crossroads with the changes going on in the greater world of college sports plus the still fairly recent retirement of Roy. Carolina Basketball can either cling to its past and refuse to adapt or they can bring the best of the history and tradition of Carolina Basketball with them as they evolve to meet the future of college basketball. My hope is that they choose the latter and we end up a blue blood for decades to come and not someday known as the "Kodak of College Basketball".
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Nominated for awesome post award. We have some great writers (real world authors?) on this board.
 
SnoopRob said:
Overall, money is likely not the biggest problem facing Carolina Basketball.

I do think that money is/has been a significant problem with some recruitments (e.g. Stojakavic), where other schools are willing to bust their budget for a player that we just aren't willing to match. But that's beyond the program's control and the key is to have enough foresight and a wide enough net to be able to get an overall high-quality team with the overall top-tier budget we are said to have.
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UNC offered Stojakovic more than both Stanford and Illinois.

EDIT: I am wrong. UNC's offer was bigger than Illinois, not as big as Stanford's offer.
 
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stankeylegjones said:
UNC offered Stojakovic more than both Stanford and Illinois.
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That is not consistent with what I've read, which is that Stanford came in with a whopper of an offer and that Illinois raised their offer in response, yet still below Stanford's, but that UI's money plus comfort/fit was enough to get him to commit. I haven't heard exactly where we fell in the pecking order of money except that we were below Stanford and likely, at best, roughly on par with Illinois (and may have been below them). The hold up over the weekend seems to have been a bidding war that broke out, started by Stanford plus Illinois getting their funds up enough to still be selected.
 
SnoopRob said:
That is not consistent with what I've read, which is that Stanford came in with a whopper of an offer and that Illinois raised their offer in response, yet still below Stanford's, but that UI's money plus comfort/fit was enough to get him to commit. I haven't heard exactly where we fell in the pecking order of money except that we were below Stanford and likely, at best, roughly on par with Illinois (and may have been below them). The hold up over the weekend seems to have been a bidding war that broke out, started by Stanford plus Illinois getting their funds up enough to still be selected.
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Sorry, you're right. I read Ben's statement wrong (page 26 of the Stojakovic thread). I'm going to update my previous post.
 
stankeylegjones said:
UNC offered Stojakovic more than both Stanford and Illinois.
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I don't know anything in particular. But Illinois has a number of Eastern Euro players coming in next year which may have been attractive to Stojakovic such that the money difference between UNC and Illinois was less of a factor than one might usually expect.
 
dcphx said:
I don't know anything in particular. But Illinois has a number of Eastern Euro players coming in next year which may have been attractive to Stojakovic such that the money difference between UNC and Illinois was less of a factor than one might usually expect.
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From IC thread it sounds like Underwood sold him and Peja on the fit with their roster.
 
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