We Already Have Too Many Players. Time to Stop Recruiting?

[What Would Jesus Do?]

At least that's what Cal might tell us. Not that we care what he thinks, but he does make some sense.

"You may think I'm crazy, but I told my staff I only want to have eight or nine guys," Calipari told Robinson, who is now executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. "They're leaving anyway, and why would I develop a kid for someone else? Why would I do that?"

Calipari said he wants to use the other roster spots for walk-ons and rely on those non-scholarship players and graduate assistants to help the team prepare for its opponents next season.

"I want those [graduate assistants] to have played in Europe or just got done playing and can still play," he said. "We can use them in practice. The women's programs have five guys that they call 'managers,' but that's who they scrimmage against. Maybe I do it that way. We have some walk-ons, we have some [graduate assistants], we have eight or nine guys and that's it. And if there is a 10th guy, he knows he's the 10th guy."

Calipari mulls limiting Ark. roster to '8 or 9 guys'

As he prepares for his first season at Arkansas, John Calipari said he won't stack his rosters with an abundance of talent, which was his tactic during his lengthy tenure at Kentucky.

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[blazers]

Imagine the broad parity if everyone did this.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Imagine the broad parity if everyone did this.

Good point. Less stock-piling means more talent to spread around.

 

[Tarheelsman71]

and if we keep bringing in people some talented people are gonna feel recruited over. again.

 

[Kool1234567]

I think 10 is the magic number moving forward…You have walk on tryouts and take the best 3 and give those kids get a scholarship ….

And the walk on thing is year to year…Those 3 have to earn it every year…

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I think 10 is the magic number moving forward…You have walk on tryouts and take the best 3 and give those kids get a scholarship ….

And the walk on thing is year to year…Those 3 have to earn it every year…

Ten might be the perfect number in the new era. But that assumes you have mostly ready-to-play potential starters.

How many question marks can you have, if you have only 8 or 9 or even 10 players?

For example, how many guys on our current squad of 10 are we confident are legit ACC-caliber starters?

I mean we obviously will have 5 starters. We have at least 5 guys who can start, after all. But that's not necessarily the same as saying we think they are serious ACC-caliber starters.

 

[NTD 1956]

"If you can't take the grind.."

 

[DSouthr]

Ten might be the perfect number in the new era. But that assumes you have mostly ready-to-play potential starters.

How many question marks can you have, if you have only 8 or 9 or even 10 players?

For example, how many guys on our current squad of 10 are we confident are legit ACC-caliber starters?

I mean we obviously will have 5 starters. We have at least 5 guys who can start, after all. But that's not necessarily the same as saying we think they are serious ACC-caliber starters.

I like to use the term "starter level" as opposed to starter because a kid can be good enough to start for a lot of programs but due to the talent ahead of him at his position he may have to come off the bench. I think we put way to much stock in the label starter. One kid may start but only play 15mins a game while his back up gets 20+ so who really was the "starter"? Example, recall when we had Brooks/Kessler/Sharpe/Bacot, who were the starters, it was Brooks and Bacot but we now see Sharpe and Kessler in the NBA and I don't see the 2 starters in the NBA? They were all 4 starter level but only 2 of them began the game.

How many starter level guys wil we have to begin next season, I do think we add 1 more guy, maybe Onyenso, he is for sure starter level. Also starter level guys Jalen, JWit, Tyson, Jackson, Drake, Seth, RJ, Cadeau and even High could become that at some point next season.

 

[Psychward4]

At a 1986 Carolina summer event, I got to ask Woody Durham about a rumor going around that Dean Smith had backed off recruiting Danny Ferry in order to sign J.R. Reid instead.

Woody shook his head no and said, "Coach wants all of 'em."

 

[ChapelHeeled]

I like to use the term "starter level" as opposed to starter because a kid can be good enough to start for a lot of programs but due to the talent ahead of him at his position he may have to come off the bench. I think we put way to much stock in the label starter. One kid may start but only play 15mins a game while his back up gets 20+ so who really was the "starter"? Example, recall when we had Brooks/Kessler/Sharpe/Bacot, who were the starters, it was Brooks and Bacot but we now see Sharpe and Kessler in the NBA and I don't see the 2 starters in the NBA? They were all 4 starter level but only 2 of them began the game.

How many starter level guys wil we have to begin next season, I do think we add 1 more guy, maybe Onyenso, he is for sure starter level. Also starter level guys Jalen, JWit, Tyson, Jackson, Drake, Seth, RJ, Cadeau and even High could become that at some point next season.

Five guys will start. Those five will indeed be the UNC starters next season. Only five players will start. Additionally UNC has 13 scholarships to award just like all other programs. UNC is free to award those 13 scholarships to the players that they wish to award them. Thinking otherwise is simply not the way that the system works.

 

[Mrs.Jeans15]

Bring in all the talent you can.

 

[Newoikkin]

Five guys will start. Those five will indeed be the UNC starters next season. Only five players will start. Additionally UNC has 13 scholarships to award just like all other programs. UNC is free to award those 13 scholarships to the players that they wish to award them. Thinking otherwise is simply not the way that the system works.

I feel so weird about Kessler excelling in the NBA by playing the way Roy wanted him to all along.

Everything I heard that year was walker and his dad complaining that he wasnt utilized beyond the arc at all.