I’ve laid out the sequence of events as plainly as I can. At this point, if you still believe that Preyer hired Bill then I’d likewise hope you are not shopping for Nigerian headwear.
UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway
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uncjhodges
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I am glad that the staff didn’t have a complete mutiny after 5 games (not sure that’s a positive though). The defensive line has been fine, peaked a few weeks ago imo and were manhandled by Wake. The recruiting has been slightly better than our historical average for first year coaches and given how much we’re paying, is fine. Everything else has been pretty much a disaster. We’re all pulling for it to succeed, frankly bc fall sucks when we’re just a punching bag for jokes like this year, but i won’t expect it
Is d00k any good?
UNC didn’t exactly light it up on offense.
We looked mediocre against a team that is mediocre at best.
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Yes, we should never believe that the man who made an offer sheet to the hired coach was the one who, in all actuality, made that hire.
That would be a very, very silly thing to believe.
I don’t think that heelin is saying he’s happy being 4-7 this season.
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There are very few certainties in life but I feel like it has to be an almost certainty that both of those men would not be in Chapel Hill together at the same time. Go may be our QB next year, or Chip may be our OC, but it ain’t gonna be both lol
You mean the offer sheet that caused Lee and UNC legal to fly to Massachusetts on Dec. 8th and spend the day renegotiating because Preyer had made promises that UNC could not keep? Or the offer that caused Hans to publicly rebuke Preyer and make the BoT even more impotent than it already was?
I could have sent an offer sheet to Lombardi on December 5th, too, and it would have been just as effective at hiring Bill as Preyer/Evans' little fiasco was.
The Chancellor didn't go behind Bubba. Those two were in lockstep throughout the process. They flew together to New York on Dec 5th to negotiate with Bill and flew to New Orleans on Dec. 7th to interview Jon Sumrall (who then got wind of the Bill stuff and withdrew his name the next day).
It was Preyer and Evans that were going around Bubba because they thought he was too "traditional" and not "out of the box" enough for their tastes.
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Every version I've heard of the hiring process from those who are close to the folks on the BOT and defensive of the hire (aka the folks I disagree with but am still close to) say "Preyer only got involved when Bubba fucked it all up". I never hear a mention of Roberts in those tellings...and those are the folks defending the hire so I'm not sure why they would have it twisted. I truly have no idea, but based on their take I've always thought that Preyer was the main driving force who put everyone in the position of not having much choice.
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Sounds like something MAGA would say -about anything they did wrong-but it was Obama's fault
Mulberry Heel
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She quite literally cannot go away can she
People like her never do, unfortunately. They live for the spotlight, and will do or say almost anything to get it and then stay in it. Not unlike Dear Leader himself. For these people, even bad publicity is better than no publicity.
We got no idea if it was a dumb hire. Time will tell. Meantime looks like UNC has flipped Da Ron Parks 6-5 350 kis from FSU. 3 star but had offer from tOSU. This kid was not on radar at all and not included in dins story about Thanksgiving feast. Kids just keep signing up with BB and Lombo.
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Can't deny they are racking up solid recruits
Preyer certainly did everything in his power to sway hearts and minds. He locked in on Belichick in November and did all he could to force the hire. But the Snoop view gives far too little agency to the actual decision makers and too much power to the shit disturbers.
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Let’s not hire the man in his 60s that just got fired midseason because his offense has been terrible.
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No doubt about it, so sincere tip of my hat to them for that. Money talks. We are spending a lot of it to get these HS guys to sign- hopefully that turns out to be a good strategy and our best deployment of resources.
As Buck Sanders noted, we’ve currently got 9 composite 4-star players in a class of 35 which would be the equivalent of 6.5 in a historically standard class of 25, or about the same number that UNC typically signs in a standard HS class. That said, we do seem to have a decent number of mid-to-high 3 star guys with offers from other big schools (like the guys we flipped from Miami and Penn State).
My concern with this whole strategy remains that if we are bringing in 40+ players from the high school ranks, then one of two things must occur for the roster math to math: 1. we are going to jettison a whole bunch of players from this current roster, in which case we’ve essentially said that we failed miserably in our evaluation and roster construction and need a complete do-over and thus forfeiting an entire year of development in the program for those guys, OR 2. we are not planning to take a significant number of transfers, in which case we miss on the opportunity to add immediate experienced talent to the roster.
Going into next year against an exponentially more difficult schedule, in a year where the staff essentially needs to win a 8 or they’re done, it’s difficult to envision the “youth movement” approach working well. But time will tell, and this is why these guys get paid the big bucks to do what they do. Hope it works out. We all want to win.