What do you think our record will be, and which games do you feel fairly confident we will win?

I thought Jawad Williams hit the nail on the head in his comments about the lack of development of the bench. I saw a lot of analogies with my line of work. I'm in the book publishing business. I own my own company but used to head up a large publishing company. People were always amazed that only 40% of our books made a profit. 60% lost money. Roughly the same stat as the movie industry. People said, "Why don't you just publish books by the name-brand authors?" Here's the problem. The name-brand authors eventually die. You have to find and nourish the young new authors who will take their place. In basketball, or any sport, you have to do the same thing. Our new authors would fail and lose money. But you still had to develop them. Hubert's bench players are going to fail. Make bad shots. Make dumb decisions. But that is what is required for them to learn the game, develop their confidence and learn to be a starter. As Jawad pointed out, you can't develop if you play less than five minutes a game and are in constant fear of getting jerked.

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You do realize we were a non tournament team in the Covid cancelled year. That was preceded by BLOW OUT loses in the first round to juggernauts like Mississippi State and Wisconsin.

In between that and this year, played in a National Title game. But now it's not UNC basketball? Da eff outta here !!!

Roy's proclamation: “I just think he’s the perfect coach and perfect human being to be the coach at North Carolina,” Williams said Monday, via WRAL’s Gerald Owens. “It’s college basketball. It’s a long season. There are other good teams. And, regardless of what North Carolina fans think, it’s not our divine right to win every game.”

If Dean is God, does that make Roy Jesus? And how can any one doubt what Jesus says? Davis is perfect!

You do not have a divine right to win every game. So shut up and worship as you've been instructed, no matter the losses.

Wonder if the guy on here screaming about “why didn’t we hire Nate Oats instead of Hubert” wants to take that back.

Say what you want about Roy/Hubert/Dean, but we don’t recruit many problem kids and they didn’t hid behind anything if their kids got into trouble.

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He wants QBs who come from stable 2-parent families and have 3.5 or higher GPA, because those things help mold leaders. Wants OL from similar stable backgrounds, but DL may be from single parent home and have lower grades. DL needs to be rough and tumble, not necessarily smart in any sense.

His stock is rising quickly. He is every bit of 6'3" 190. Runs a sub 4.4 and is a track All-American. Had 6 INTs this past year and took 3 of them to the house. Picked up an offer today from Maryland and 2 days ago Wake Forest offered. $tate should be offering soon. Would love to see us get into the mix.

More than a few football fans roll their eyes like teenagers when I again post that truth. Now you basketball-onlys also get the chance to roll your eyes at it.

But you cannot change its truth. Football mediocrity tolerated is football mediocrity retained and then maintained, which eventually leads to mediocrity being set in stone. The same goes for basketball.

The loss to Moo was the 6th time this season that UNC has led by at least 6 points in the 2nd half against a team projected to make the NCAA Tournament, and then lost. Talk about the mediocrity of making the grand choke a lifestyle.

10-15

Mack is a class act, recruits well, and wins the division. Losses down the stretch were not good- can he get it to the next level of playoff football? And is it a good move to extend him that long? Thoughts?

10-15

ND OC, and former ND QB, Tommy Rees is now headed to be Bama OC under Nick Saban. Already a highly regarded OC, Rees now will get SEC experience under Saban. Perhaps Rees, who knows the ACC and UNC from his years as an ND assistant, would be an ideal bright, young replacement for Mack after a couple years under Saban to harden him and refine his understanding of the minutia that must be mastered to run the best program possible.

Many expect the SEC to now get rid of divisions and play a 3 + 6 (6) schedule, for 9 league games per year. If they stay with divisions, I assume they would move Bama and Auburn to the East, move Missouri to the West, and add Texas and OU to the West.

As a college sports fan, I would prefer the rotating games, but either way would produce far more truly appealing football games than the ACC could offer.

And that gets us to Winter Meetings. They better figure a plan that works, or before long schools will be itching to leave. The closer we get to the end of the old deal, the more likely that becomes, because the cost is less.

For years, the dolts in the ACC Office kept their faith that basketball can save the ACC because the ACC Tournament was unique. I am not certain even now that they all have awakened from their opium den-type stupor to face reality.

I probably won't be able to get it completed until early next week, but this will give time to get in your questions. You can send them for both this season's team and recruiting. I hope to do a separate article on each one. If we have lots of questions I will do as many mailbags as needed. I will answer each question. Fire away.

...and this will be very short.

In fairness, there were some encouraging things at the outset, like commiting to transition and utilizing enough bench to stay fresh, that again in fairness SHOULD have garnered us a double-digit halftime lead, one that we were largely zebraed out of. But with all that said, there's still the key problems that keep reappearing... and ended up finally blowing up in our faces ---- not finishing thru contact, not enough rebounding effort and help for Mando, not speeding up an opponent who doesn't like that, missing passing opportunities and cutters, having a tired backcourt from a dearth of second-half subbing, etc etc.... and the personnel issues. I had hoped for a starting lineup change at the 4, but nope. And trying to play Seth at the 1? Not a good idea at this stage.

I know we're all unhappy with what we're seeing, And right now I have no idea if any of this gets turned around this season, but what I do know is I'm not spending any more energy on this today. I have more important things to do, and I also have little patience with the usual suspects who will use every opportunity to push coaching-change nonsense. I have been the first to say that the staff is not having a good season, and I'll comment on what I think needs to be fixed, but using current woes to push tired anti-UNC-family agendas is just a waste of a keyboard.

Othar than that. vent away... L8er.