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2025 recruiting....

I think it's really hard to compare apples to apples with this.

Today, is it realistic that you can get Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller like talents to be ok with coming off the bench as freshmen? I'm not all that sure. Even the rookies that were 5* and didn't play like Isiah Hicks... I'm not sure if that's all that relatable today. Maybe playing for UNC still means that much, but I have my doubts.

The other thing that needs to be considered is the NBA rookie wage scale. In 2006, the #1 overall pick was making less than $4M/year on their rookie deal. The last pick in the 1st round was making less than $800K/year on their rookie deal.

The 2004-25 rookie NBA wage scale has the #1 pick making $11M/year and the last pick in the 1st round is making just over $2M/year. And yes, that far exceeds inflation and far exceeds the purchasing power if you convert 2006 money to 2024. There is much more value in NBA contracts today and that obviously becomes even more significant if the NBA players are able to get second longterm contracts.

It's really hard to compare Roy's days to today.

For Hubert, it will come down to a few pretty easy things. If he's a good evaluator of talent and a good developer of talent, then he will have more margin for error for the type of player he can bring in. He can be more stubborn for lack of a better word. If he isn't, then he will need to pay for more talented players.
The incredible growth of the NBA popularity globally has been a cash boon, the workers/talent get 48%. Price of poker has went up. Ante up or play the smaller tables.

The Biggest Fish in the Pond Visits North Carolina This Weekend

With UNC tradition, family & just overall UNC basketball history ... we should have a top 5 class every yr period regardless of NIL or not !! We are CAROLINA
That is so ridiculously out of touch with reality.

We weren't even getting top 5 classes every year during the best stretches of Dean and Roy's career. Now you think recruits should be turning down millions of dollars because of "tradition, family, and history"?

2025 recruiting....

Hey 57 I like it, and what would be wrong with contracts with conditions. Heck yeah we’ll give you 5 mil but you’d better deliver such and such. If it’s all about winning and paying them to do it, then schools should hold kids accountable too. Or just make it flat out performance based.
Want to make 8mil? Win your college a chip. Oh you got put out in the first round? Here’s a scholarship and free shoes. lol PUT THIS CRAP SHOW IN THIER LAPS.
But it's about making millions to those that reap the benefits and it has been for quite a long while. If the cash is flowing in from the product the bottom line is what matters to the buisness. Chips are nice, don't get it twisted though, it's been a billion dollar industry, and that bottom line rules for them.

OOTB's Political Thread . ..

It's viewed that way by the whole world except you inbreeds.
And yet, assuming you are anywhere close to correct, you dumb asses gave us the choices of pawpaw or a person who's biggest qualifications are being a half black woman. IF Trump was really that bad and it was such a horrible future with him being elected, one would think that we'd have been given an actual, real alternative.

2025 recruiting....

Very true. And thank heavens they weren’t.

The point still remains, OAD players rarely lead teams to championships.

Off the top of my head I can only name Anthony Davis and Carmelo Anthony in the last 25 years (there may be more but that’s all I can recall)
The dook 2015 squad led by Okafor, Jones, Winslow...

But many other teams have made the Final Four with multiple one-and-done players. And still more, including UNC in 2005 and 2017, had one-and-done players contribute to championships.

I think what UNC has been doing, filling the roster with both highly ranked 5 stars and lesser ranked 4 stars, has been the best recipe for success. The big problem is for the past 18 months we've been missing on the highly ranked recruits that have anchored all our great teams.
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2025 recruiting....

Some of those players absolutely could have been one-and-done. I distinctly remember Hansbrough being projected in the late lottery after his freshman year.
Very true. And thank heavens they weren’t.

The point still remains, OAD players rarely lead teams to championships.

Off the top of my head I can only name Anthony Davis and Carmelo Anthony in the last 25 years (there may be more but that’s all I can recall)

The Biggest Fish in the Pond Visits North Carolina This Weekend

Why would he go overseas when he'll make $4 million+ at BYU?
Because playing overseas would give him a much better preparation for the NBA than playing at BYU.

This guy is likely going to make $8-12 mill in his first NBA year and has the potential to make around half a billion dollars in his career… so getting that career off to the best start possible should be a priority.
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True. The point was not about not bidding, but rather not breaking the bank for a dybanista-type player who’d only be on campus for a year…. All the listed players were multi-year players due to their lack of immediate NBA appeal.
Some of those players absolutely could have been one-and-done. I distinctly remember Hansbrough being projected in the late lottery after his freshman year.

2025 recruiting....

Every one of these players: May, Felton, McCants, Hansbrough, Lawson, Ellington, Berry, Jackson, Hicks, Meeks, Bacot, RJ would command bidding wars if they were high school seniors today.

Carolina can get in the game or get left behind. It’s their choice.
True. The point was not about not bidding, but rather not breaking the bank for a dybanista-type player who’d only be on campus for a year…. All the listed players were multi-year players due to their lack of immediate NBA appeal.

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