Hubert Davis Catch-all

[heelinhell]

Fun fact...I created the Diamond Heels Club and printed the brochures in my dorm room for the first 2 years on my HP Deskjet. Baseball was such a rag-tag operation back in the day but we had a good time.

I joined and put my name on the Bosh Wall. If I am remembering correctly, you would host a "tailgate" before each game. I appreciated very much your generosity.

 

[wmheel1287]

I joined and put my name on the Bosh Wall. If I am remembering correctly, you would host a "tailgate" before each game. I appreciated very much your generosity.

That's me. Good times

 

[Mulberry Heel]

My friends are older UNC grads, and we all agree that is not much fun to follow our football and basketball programs. A few had been members of the Ram's Club for over 25 years but have decided to quit. I have been a member for 32 years and have been tempted to quit. I really like supporting the student athletes in the "Olympic sports " and asked the club office if my membership dues could be restricted to sports programs other than football and men's basketball in the future.

He said I could not restrict my membership dues, but he wanted to know why I would want to do that. I said that I preferred to support true student-athletes ,not give financial support to hired guns who have little or no interest in academics or getting a degree. I have until June 30th to continue my membership so I will see how I feel over the next 4 months.

Back in the 80s and 90s I loved both college basketball and football. I not only watched all UNC games but on weekends would watch non-UNC basketball games as I was able (especially ACC games on the old Jefferson-Pilot/Raycom network) and enjoyed them. In the 21st Century, with the advent of one-and-done and now easy transfer/paying players my interest just keeps waning. I still watch most UNC games (but not all anymore), but I rarely care to watch any non-UNC basketball games in any conference, including most non-UNC NCAA tourney games.

And mainly it's because, as others have already said, I miss the days of being able to watch players develop over the three or four years they stay at UNC. I still remember watching Warren Martin go from a bench warmer to a significant contributor and seeing that growth over time was one of the main pleasures of the college game. I just get the sense that more and more of it today is just hired guns playing for money and not the team or school, and for bench players they no longer stay in most cases but just transfer out. And I'm well aware that paying players and allowing people like Lubin or Cadeau a chance to shine somewhere else may be more fair, but watching teams of mostly mercenaries that you know will mostly be gone after one season just isn't the same. I know I'm an old fart and that bigs may be right that the college game is as popular as ever, but I don't really care to be honest. For me personally the emotional investment in the team and players just isn't what it was, although to be fair maybe that comes with age and some cynicism about how the world works. I do still hate dook and state with a passion, though.

 

[mpaer]

Back in the 80s and 90s I loved both college basketball and football. I not only watched all UNC games but on weekends would watch non-UNC basketball games as I was able (especially ACC games on the old Jefferson-Pilot/Raycom network) and enjoyed them. In the 21st Century, with the advent of one-and-done and now easy transfer/paying players my interest just keeps waning. I still watch most UNC games (but not all anymore), but I rarely care to watch any non-UNC basketball games in any conference, including most non-UNC NCAA tourney games.

And mainly it's because, as others have already said, I miss the days of being able to watch players develop over the three or four years they stay at UNC. I still remember watching Warren Martin go from a bench warmer to a significant contributor and seeing that growth over time was one of the main pleasures of the college game. I just get the sense that more and more of it today is just hired guns playing for money and not the team or school, and for bench players they no longer stay in most cases but just transfer out. And I'm well aware that paying players and allowing people like Lubin or Cadeau a chance to shine somewhere else may be more fair, but watching teams of mostly mercenaries that you know will mostly be gone after one season just isn't the same. I know I'm an old fart and that bigs may be right that the college game is as popular as ever, but I don't really care to be honest. For me personally the emotional investment in the team and players just isn't what it was, although to be fair maybe that comes with age and some cynicism about how the world works. I do still hate dook and state with a passion, though.

Great post
Every team now is a new fleeting moment almost
And then you start over

 

[finesse]

I have to think that in the next year or so there's going to be some moves to bring a little more order to this chaos. I have no clue what but this uncertainty is bad for players, coaches and fans. Since that means advertisers start losing money, something will get done.