UNC Basketball Possible coaches - UNC hires ex-Nuggets HC Michael Malone

SnoopRob said:
What's incredible to me was that what we heard over and over again during the season from HD supporters was "we shouldn't evaluate HD's future until the end of the season and then make a decision".
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I wasn't necessarily an HD supporter except insofar as I support the current head coach and want him to be successful.

Anyway, you articulated my position all season long: wait until the end and make a decision.

We did that. I'm fine with the result. I don't know what I would have done, in part because I have studiously avoided thinking about that in any way, but I can't complain with the decision.
 
NYCBlueBlood said:
Publicly making emotional decisions in the heat of the moment pretty much never ends well. I'm not discounting the 1,000 miles of road that lead up to the decision. I get it and why the decision was made. But the how and the why were horribly mangled... and it's impacting the process now.
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I mean this very sincerely, I think you have a unique view of the situation because I know your work is in hiring (and the associated firing) of folks in very high level positions.

If done properly, when do you believe the decision on HD's job should have been made regarding the 2026-2027 season?
 
rodoheel said:
Completely false. But it's certainly not the first time that you have employed this exact straw-man in service of your argument.
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Plenty where this came from, but most are in a locked thread that no longer allows quoting:

SnoopRob said:
Carolina Basketball brings advantages that few other places bring...the history & the tradition, the banners, the reputation, and the commitment to winning (for the most part). Even with a mere decent coach over the last few years, we've still recruited better than most other schools.

I stand by my statement without any other qualifications...as long as we get our money right, we will have very, very qualified candidates who will be more than willing to take this job.
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Also snoop:

There is no heir apparent at this point, but Carolina Basketball is a top 2/3 program in CBB history and its HC position is a top 2/3 job. Of course, the entire system has changed over the last 10 or so years and so it is no longer a must that coaches take the best job available to them, but the history, resources, and prestige of Carolina Basketball (and UNC, as a whole) very, very likely mean that there will be significant interest in the position when it comes open.

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Plenty from other posters as well, all with very high confidence and no semblance of caution nor doubt that Carolina would get someone at or very near the top of their list, and would no doubt be an improvement on HD’s tenure.

So we’ll see how it goes. So far it’s going how I feared it would.
 
duluoz said:
Jury’s still out of course… but my position all along has been that this is the key point the pitchfork brigade greatly underestimated the difficulty of. You all talked about what a desirable job it was and how anyone would be lucky to have it, and assumed there’d be a line wrapping around the Dean Dome. And IMO that was clouded by hubris and a lack of appreciation for the full scope of what keeping HD would’ve offered (continuity, legacy), choosing to focus only on the *very* debatable negatives instead.

The choice was weighed with a thumb on the scale whether you knew it or not. But some of us did, and had a strong feeling it would be a lot tougher to improve on HD than many expected.
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1. The negatives were not *very debatable.* They weren't debatable at all. What was debatable was the balance. There were a lot of issues that weren't his fault, but at the end of the day it was a decision about a coach whose ultimate performance was not as desired or expected. But the negatives were real, unquestionably real, and you do a disservice to an otherwise reasonable position by denying any validity to the opinion that he should have been let go.

2. In fairness, there was a line wrapping around the Dean Dome. These coaches weren't getting record contract extensions because they weren't interested in the UNC job. They leveraged their interest into good deals. It's not exactly an indictment of anyone here that Tommy Lloyd decided that the marginal improvement over a 7.8M salary wasn't worth the transition. Gut stuck around a long time on an assistant's salary when he could have had the HC salary.

3. That said, your skepticism was warranted. The same way the best player on the football team is the backup QB, the best coach in the country is "our next coach." We dream big on possibilities and often don't plan for the downside. Here, by "plan" I mean emotionally planning as fans. I have no idea what is happening in the administration.

4. But still, the poster who said, "make them say no" is correct. You can't marry someone you don't ask.
 
StoneColdHeel said:
Young has entered the portal.
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Jaydon Young was the one guy on the team who got minutes each game who I always forgot was on the team until he came into the game, and even right after that, I’d forget he was in the game until he was taken out. Once he was taken out of the game, I’d forget about him again, and apparently so did Hubert.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Jaydon Young was the one guy on the team who got minutes each game who I always forgot was on the team until he came into the game, and even right after that, I’d forget he was in the game until he was taken out. Once he was taken out of the game, I’d forget about him again, and apparently so did Hubert.
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lololol.

very much a depth piece. we don't win the wake game without him this season, though.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Jaydon Young was the one guy on the team who got minutes each game who I always forgot was on the team until he came into the game, and even right after that, I’d forget he was in the game until he was taken out. Once he was taken out of the game, I’d forget about him again, and apparently so did Hubert.
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I am embarrassed to say I thought he was the kid from WVa:confused:
 
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