POLL: Should We Go to the NIT?
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In this era, retooling the roster is far more important than playing in the NIT. It was absolutely the right decision to bypass the NIT 2 years ago and focus on roster reconstruction, and the end result was a team that won the ACC and got a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
Every day that we waste in the NIT is a day our staff could be recruiting a stud center or a stud shooting guard. What exactly is the NIT providing? More playing time for guys who won't even be in a UNC jersey next year? A chance for Lubin or Tyson to earn more scholarship offers once they enter the portal? A chance to better team chemistry when 75% of the roster won't be back next year?
Every day that we waste in the NIT is a day our staff could be recruiting a stud center or a stud shooting guard. What exactly is the NIT providing? More playing time for guys who won't even be in a UNC jersey next year? A chance for Lubin or Tyson to earn more scholarship offers once they enter the portal? A chance to better team chemistry when 75% of the roster won't be back next year?
With logic like that, we should stop playing right now and focus on roster reconstruction.
I don't always agree with Dave but he's right. This isn't the days of old where postseason tourneys like this were used for development. Sadly, it's better to go ahead and get active in free agency.
Did you consider Henson to be a "Henson like player" before that NIT? If you did then you were one of the very few in this country that did. I and a couple others here did think Henson would be a much better fit at the 4 and said so often. But he way surpassed even what I thought he could be in that NIT, he showed a different level of toughness in that tourney that made all the difference.
IF this UNC team ends up in the NIL, I would hope it would be treated differently than our looking to win a tourney. I would rather it be used more as a prep for next season. We know RJ, JWit, Claude, and Ian are not going to be back next season so limit their minutes. I would want to see James Brown get extended minutes, Drake exclusively at the 3 and not the 4, Seth some PG minutes. Couple guys on blue steel, Hawkins and Mayo have some game, would not mind being able to see what they could do with 10 or so minutes. More prep for next season than we must win this tourney.
Maybe I'm missing something. Can't we pursue replacement while still playing? Maybe not a full court press on players but surely we can still be aggressive.
Plus not playing has its costs, too. Literally, in the sense of lost revenue. But also promoting the brand before more eyeballs. And, even though you downplay it, it can also help to prepare for next season. Especially if you play the returning players more.
Another thing that can be learned by playing in the NIT - especially if you do emphasize the play of those likely to return - is whether those who could return actually fit. You might think the coaches already know that, but if you've been emphasizing Ian all year, or yanking Elliot on his second foul every game, maybe you don't really know how the returning squad will play together next season. Why not use the NIT to find out?
It could be used for development, I don't see why it couldn't be?
Wait wait wait, what? LOL
First, your first paragraph is to say that some times folks are right and some times folks are wrong? Glad ya got that off your chest, wonder how many folks didn't already know that? Paragraph 2 got me, only reason I replied,
Paragraph 2 got me, only reason I replied, "And I think I can speak for the majority of Hubert skeptics (myself included). We want Hubert to work out" ? You really think the majority of Hubert skeptics really want Hubert to be successful? Dude, they want him GONE, as in GONE YESTERDAY! They don't want him successful, they want him GONE! They may have at one time wanted him to be successful, today they just want him gone above anything else.
I don’t really buy that any tournament is a springboard for the following season. And I believe in that less in today’s free agency era of college basketball.
Fans try to connect that a lot in pro sports. A team finishes the regular season strongly and it will mean something the following season. I don’t think it means much either way.
The prep for next season will come down to who is added vs who is subtracted IMO. It won’t come down to playing in the NIT.
The 2011 team had the season they have because they had a much more upgraded roster helped with top recruits and Tyler Zeller being healthy.
I absolutely believe that the Hubert skeptics want him to be as successful as Roy or Dean. I think they want him gone because they don’t think he’s going to be at UNC. There’s a difference in that.
And they probably feel that if he isn’t the right coach, it’s better to cut ties yesterday than it will be to give him X number of years with Y amount of resources. And I agree with that logic.
I mean, if I proposed to every Hubert skeptic that over the next 10 seasons he makes the NCAA Tournament 9 or 10 times. Wins the ACC reg season 6 times, makes 3 Final Fours and wins 1 National Championship would they fire him today? Probably. They just can’t see that future or anywhere near that success with him.
you are assuming all the players elect to return, and we invite all back. I don’t see a scenario where we take a competitive roster to the NIT for various reasons.
i'm not interested in post season games where the players don't care enough to attend. that includes both major sports.
The NIT is the equivalent of a bottom third bowl game. Neither should exist in the current environment.
Apparently @NathanFielder wasn't speaking for you. But he was speaking for me. I have serious doubts whether Hubert is the guy. But I'll be delighted if he is.
Are you saying that you just want Hubert gone? Not successful?
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