Just to flip that question, should 2 losses to duke this season insure he needs to go?
My concern is that yes, Hubert has made a LOT of rookie mistakes (my opinion) but UNC hired him as a rookie head coach, rookie mistakes should have been expected. Freshman players don't come in and play like they do as seniors, same should be the expectation of a rookie head coach that has never before been a head coach of a program. We not just tolerate freshman mistakes we expect them, we know as the go along they will improve, I think that should as well be the expectation for Hubert. The time line for a coach in my view is and has to be much longer than that of a player. I really think a coach has to have a solid 10yrs of being a successful head coach before he takes on a blue blood program with VERY few exceptions, Roy and the4 current Arizona head coach being 2 rare exceptions.
It is no fun to have to endure the rookie mistakes from a player or a coach but UNC set that up by hiring Hubert, they set it up when they hired Matt as well. I would suggest that Hubert's perceived failure as a head coach today is really more based on his having a disaster of a portal season as well as what was before Wilson committed a failure in 2025 high school recruiting.
For those calling for him to be fired now, I would offer, in his very first season as UNC head coach he did coach UNC to the NCAAT title game. In his 3rd season as head coach Hubert did led his team to the ACC regular season title, was a 1 seed for the NCAAT, and was ACC coach of the year. IN addition, if bringing in talent is important to you, he did get the commit from GG Jackson who was #1 in his class I think. Hubert did bring in 2 top 10 kids that are freshmen right now in Jackson and Powell, he did just get the commit from the #5 player in the 2025 class. In addition Hubert did score 3 home runs from the portal in Manek, Ingram, and Cormac Ryan. He also scored what pretty much every GURU said were big time scores at the time he got their commits in Tyson and Dawson Garcia even thou they did not work out as basically every expert thought they would. In addition, Hubert did lead UNC to 2 of the greatest games in UNC history, hanging K with a loss to UNC in his very last game as head coach in Cameron and ending K's career with that loss to UNC in the NCAAT. That is actually a pretty darn impressive resume for not having completed his 4th season as head coach yet.
That isn't opinion, them be da facts (poor grammar purposely used to lighten the mood) that just are not up for dispute, LOL. This will or would be what other coaches that you may prefer to be the UNC coach rather than Hubert, that is what they will be looking at more than what fans want to scream out of emotion. Hope I don't need to define what the word fan is short form for...
Want to make the case for why he should go, you can save the over thinking and just go back and read what I have said for the last 3yrs, I have likely made your case for you, yet I am actually not calling for him to be fired or step down, what have I said about that? That I am waiting for the last game we play this season and then take a long hard look but for now I am inclined to bring him back for at least 1 more. I could change my mind after that last game has been played, I like everyone have changed my mind when additional information arrived. But I will tell you that my decision will not be because we lose to duke twice this season or if we miss the NCAAT.
I recognize that others feel way differently, take nothing I have shared here as being in any way disrespectful to any other opinion, I am just sharing my thoughts on this and trying to be very respectful to anyone who may not agree, I actually do think I may be in the minority opinion on this, been there before to, not my first rodeo.
