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

SnoopRob said:
Not at the collegiate level, that's ultimately the HC's responsibility. This isn't the pros, the GM works for the HC and the HC holds the responsibility for the roster.
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I feel like that will start to flip in the coming years.
 
Oddball said:
The issue was Colorado St played Evans off the ball as a small ball 2 guard. He was NOT their point guard....

So to me the "blame" lies mostly with whoever thought Evans could run pg in the ACC. And then decided to pay him millions to do so
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Well, seems the coach would have something to do with that.
 
SnoopRob said:
Why not another 10 or 20 million?

We were top 10 - and possibly higher - in NIL last year. At some point, the primary solution can't be to have so much money you can just buy a dominant team.
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I'm going to be more than a bit surprised if there isn't a serious move in that direction. Under current rules, I'm not sure what the other options are.
 
C-Money said:
Would it have been better to have kept Cadeau? Probably. I wonder what really made him leave. Was Carolina not willing to pay him what he wanted?
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Yes, if he could have stayed and been happy to stay, a healthy UNC team would have been something.
 
Calheel said:
The dollars being bet are so small as to make these odds meaningless. You'd get better information from a Magic 8 ball.
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I posted that info because it’s interesting to keep an eye on out of curiosity. Not that it’s a reliable market yet.

But at $1.6m vol and one name getting above 50% it’s not magic ball noise anymore either. At the very least it’s interesting to see Donovan is leading the narrative in the public eye.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
I posted that info because it’s interesting to keep an eye on out of curiosity. Not that it’s a reliable market yet.

But at $1.6m vol and one name getting above 50% it’s not magic ball noise anymore either. At the very least it’s interesting to see Donovan is leading the narrative in the public eye.
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I think a lot of people don't believe a coach on the cusp of winning the national title would then bounce to another school that he has no connection to
 
Is Donovan viewed as that much of a sure thing/lock if Lloyd/May don't bite? I'd be a little concerned that he would view his status as insulting, surely he is abreast of the pecking order. His ego is likely not small, and he has a lot more of a connection to UK, which would likely be his for the taking next year.
 
I remain extremely hopeful that I end up wrong about this but it's really difficult to envision that we can pull either Lloyd or May, one of whom is guaranteed to be playing for a national title a week from tonight, and both of whom have absolutely everything they need from a resources standpoint where they’re currently at, and if they need more, they now have all the the leverage to get it. May especially seems like a non-starter to me; UNC is not going to out-bid or out-resource Michigan, and just last year May turned down his own alma mater- one of the historic blueblood programs- to remain at Michigan. I at least feel like we have a shot with Lloyd given his connections with Few and Few's connection to Roy. But I think that shot is long and growing longer.
 
I really want them to be able to get Lloyd or May. I'd rather have Otzelberger, Byington or McCollum than Donavan. I just have a bad feeling Donavan would turn out like Belichick.
 
CFordUNC said:
I remain extremely hopeful that I end up wrong about this but it's really difficult to envision that we can pull either Lloyd or May, one of whom is guaranteed to be playing for a national title a week from tonight, and both of whom have absolutely everything they need from a resources standpoint where they’re currently at, and if they need more, they now have all the the leverage to get it. May especially seems like a non-starter to me; UNC is not going to out-bid or out-resource Michigan, and just last year May turned down his own alma mater- one of the historic blueblood programs- to remain at Michigan. I at least feel like we have a shot with Lloyd given his connections with Few and Few's connection to Roy. But I think that shot is long and growing longer.
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I just don't see May as accomplished as Donovan. His success is relatively recent and he has no record of sustaining it at the highest level. Michigan does not compare to UNC in terms of college basketball prestige (regardless of funding).

I also think that Donovan being an NBA coach would be able to figure out the NIL landscape pretty quickly and would hire a top GM and run the NIL aspect as a business. He also didn't achieve all his success riding the coattails of a generational player (unlike Belichick). His age is the biggest downside from my perspective in that if he his successful how long until he retires. Roy retired at 70.

Loyd is interesting but has been a West Coast guy his entire life it seems. That is tough transition. Plus he has an army of players on his bench.
 
“When asked Thursday how the search was going, Roberts said Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham and the incoming AD Steve Newmark were the ones involved in the process and did not elaborate further.

The chancellor did take time, though, to thank Davis for his stewardship during five years of head coaching and many others being a representative for the team.

‘Coach Davis will tell you,” Roberts said, “he met his wife here at Carolina, he became a Christian here, his uncle’s jersey is hanging in the rafters, Hubert and Leslie are Carolina parents…they love the university deeply and the university loves them back. They’ll always have a place of pride in the hearts of the Carolina family.’

Chair of the Board of Trustees Malcolm Turner was similarly asked about whether any trustees would have a role to play in the search, like was reported around UNC football head coach Bill Belichick’s hire in 2024. Turner played that down and when asked about concerns, he said he had ‘none, whatsoever.’

‘We have a fine team leading that search, with Bubba Cunningham and Steve Newmark,’ said Turner. ‘We need our leaders to lead and I trust that they will do so, and lead a great process with a great outcome. The board’s role is approval — so, we await the output of that work and look forward to [the search] unfolding.’”

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Welcomes, Departures and the SCiLL Investigation: Highlights From UNC's Board of Trustees March Meetings - Chapelboro.com

The UNC Board of Trustees held its final meetings of the academic year on Wednesday and Thursday in Chapel Hill. Here are some highlights.
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Good thing they got that quote from Roberts before last night. He is no doubt devastated today.
 
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