Just saying, haven’t heard anything from the other side outside of this board.
Not great when the national voices don’t like what you did, how and when you did it, or the prospects for doing better than HD.
Whether or not they’re right is irrelevant when you’re getting disparaged in front of the college basketball world on the biggest stages.
Something many didn’t consider the possibility of happening.
Honest question: Is this your first time experiencing a coach being fired before their contract is up? Have you never paid attention when its happened at other schools? The media, in case you weren't aware, is made up largely of ex-coaches and players, will ALWAYS side with the guy that was fired. They never side with the administration when this happens. To the media, the administration is always the bad guy, because they have to make decisions based on profit and revenue, not emotional ones based on what a nice guy the coach seems to be.
Hubert Davis is a perfectly nice person, but a mediocre coach. Full stop. That may be good enough for a mid major, but it's not good enough for the University of North Carolina.
During his time at UNC, ask yourself this: What was our offensive identity? Were we an outside-in team that relied more on the three? Were we an inside-out team that pounded the glass and scored in the paint? Were we a running team that would kill you in transition? A meticulous half-court offense that could carve you up? It's impossible to answer the question because it changed yearly due to Hubert's inability to recruit in a way that allowed him to develop a coherent, consistent identity on that side of the court.
Now, he was able to create a defensive identity: a soft, switch-everything, low-pressure defense that created few turnovers and wasn't particularly good at defensive rebounding. That part was consistent as hell.
With the exception of Hubert's 2024 team, which I feel should have put him at the top of the list for national COTY, his teams played inconsistently game to game, inconsistently minute to minute, and rarely could put together a full 40 minutes of cohesive basketball. And when the team would go through one of those long droughts, there was never the belief that they'd be rescued by their head coach. That Hubert would call the timeout, make the right substitution for the tired players, draw up a good play, and make an in-game adjustment to change the tide. Nope, as our season was fading away against VCU, the only thing we saw was Hubert sweating on the sideline, clueless what to do to stop VCU from scoring every single time down the court, while not a single fresh body was sent to the scorer's table to check in.
And the biggest problem with Hubert? If someone had asked him the question, "Do you think you're getting the results as a coach that are expected by this University?" He'd say, "Yes I do." The man's inability to accept responsibility and acknowledge the problem right in front of him is what eventually did him in.
Hubert is a great Tar Heel. But as a coach? He's basically Matt Doherty if Matt Doherty was a nice guy who got along with his players.
