Posted Apr 11, 2023
The Atlantic Coast Conference and commissioner Jim Phillips are finalizing a three-year contract extension that will keep him atop the league through the rest of the decade. Phillips has been the ACC commissioner since being named in December 2020 and taking over in February 2021 on a five-year contract, of which he was nearing the halfway point. (ESPN.com)

Several different posts have shown up today on Facebook indicating both Withers from Louisville and Ingram from Stanford are transferring to UNC…Both have good size and are natural forwards…

I cannot confirm this is a done deal but you know what they say where there is smoke there is probably a fire…

By David on our Four Corners board. It's only $8.33 a month, so get on board now!

Any chance he comes to Chapel Hill now that he’s requested a release from his LOI?

As we've discussed a few times this year, the ACC seems like it's sliding the wrong direction. From a consistent top 3 conference in America until 5 years ago, we were 7th last year (Pomeroy) and 5th the 2 previous years.

Moreover, whereas we seldom had more than a couple team worse than top 100, last year there were 6 such clunkers in the last 2 years.

I suggest it's time to start clearing out the dead wood.

Here's a list of the bottom 4 finishers in the last 5 years.

X = bottom 4 in ACC
Y = 100 or worse on Pomeroy
* = COVID year
** = New coach in this 5-year stretch

Mack is up discussing spring practice.

Open for discussion.

Commits

Here are the unofficial final results for Contest #4. Please review and let me know if you see any discrepancies by 4/27.
Official winners and prizes with be announced on May 1.

I want to thank everyone who participated this year. We had 68 board members that participated this season, which was a record!

They have a bunch of top 100 guys -- Sanogo, Hawkins, Jackson, Clingan, Karaban, Diarra, Johnson. Clingan, Hawkins, and Jackson were all ranked in the 50s so close, but none in the top 50 RSCI composite.

Not gonna be naive and think recruiting doesn't matter. It matters, a lot. Even most power conference teams would be jealous of UConn's recruiting (all but 5-10 programs really). It's still amazing that there's so much variance after high school; you'd think the rankings would be more predictive but guys like Woods, Robinson, Harris, Walton Puff, Dunn, Styles, Nickel etc were ranked as peers to a bunch of pretty dominant college players at UConn. None of them were/are high end starters yet. Davis / Leaky are the only non-five stars who've done much of anything as HS recruits from UNC in 5-6 years, and it's a big part of why we've declined.

In 2020 Kerwin Walton is ranked right next to Ryan Kalkbrenner and just a few spots from Nijel Pack, Jaylen Clark, Bennedict Mathurin, Tari Eason, etc. Puff is ranked near guys like Sanogo, Reece Beekman, Julian Strawther, Azuolas Tubelis, and PJ Hall.

The question is, is it just bad luck we've had recently with four star guys (variance is definitely a big factor, all teams miss on 4 star players a lot) or is there some sort of consistent scouting/development deficiency from our coaching staff?

Headed to Georgetown… wish him the best!!

pick your three and a score

morikawa
spieth
burns

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