Luckily a calm, cool and collected post like yours portrays you and other UNC fans in a good light.
Tony Bradley declaring for the draft and may hire an agent...
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I've never laughed so hard at a flame post in my life...
I hear ya. Everything is gucci. Apologies made and accepted. Let's just get along and talk hoops and 'cruitin'... and oh yeah, enjoy the fact we're National F***ing Champions!
Didn't know I needed to take inventory, and hell, I could've left that part out because I know what I see. So here is my personal position on the matter as concisely as I can put it. If you like it, fine. If not, fine.
https://northcarolina.forums.rivals...nd-may-hire-an-agent.52834/page-4#post-852296
And BTW, the number in this case is 5 --- again, not that it matters.
Bite your tongue!
But seriously, yeah, he has that kind of talent. I'm hoping he sticks with some of the things he said this summer about wanting to stay long enough to get a couple of titles.
Can't we have one thread where nobody attacks another because they disagree with what the other says??? C'mon guys.
I'm sure Gary knows a lot more AAU coaches than you do. Fact is, you misquoted what he said and are now trying to backtrack. Admit you were wrong and cut your losses.
The threads remain wonderfully on point for me since I have all the trolls on ignore!
I really hope TB comes back for what could be another special year with just a few lucky breaks! I think a third deep run, possibly another FF, might just erase all the "Stuff" we have suffered for the last 12 years for me!
Returnees: JB & TB
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Joinees: Brooks & Knox
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UNC rules again!
(how's that math looking: Kentuck, puke, and Moo?)
I really hope TB comes back for what could be another special year with just a few lucky breaks! I think a third deep run, possibly another FF, might just erase all the "Stuff" we have suffered for the last 12 years for me!
Returnees: JB & TB
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Joinees: Brooks & Knox
=
UNC rules again!
(how's that math looking: Kentuck, puke, and Moo?)
I think we should assume he is NOT coming back. He will likely get a first round grade. Even if it is late first, that is guaranteed money. IF he comes back it's a bonus.
Thanks! He looks good in the highlight reel. I just hope this doesn't mean Bradley is gone. When's the last time Roy signed a transfer?
How is it not? We just got Brooks, still in the running for Knox, and now we're finally back in the transfer market. This board is often just endless posts about our potential lineups next season at this point in the year.
Knox was the last one IIRC?
We went after Alex Oriakhi (Uconn to Missouri) and Damion Lee (Drexel to Louisville) most recently.
Thinking more along the lines of losing Bradley and having a kid from William and Mary replace him. Exciting isn't the word that I equate with that scenario.
People should keep in mind that we're certainly going to lose our 2 best front court players in Hicks and Meeks. And we didn't land a top 100 big who's likely to come in and replace those guys, so we're moving to the transfer market.
Bradley could very well be gone tomorrow, but to me it also says Roy isn't so comfortable to turning over a front court starting position to Manley or Huffman as of yet.
Not to mention Bradley and Whitman don't play the same position.
I'd take that young man in a heartbeat. Decent athleticism and outstanding footwork. Our young bigs could learn a lot about footwork from this guy. Get him Roy. Would I prefer to have Tony back? Sure, but if not...
Perhaps you should think more along the lines that Whitman wouldn't be a replacement for Bradley... more of a potential 1-year experienced hand up front to help us thru this season. Where he comes from is immaterial, it's a question of can he give quality minutes and help the team? I'm sure he could, and he may well now be less of a priority anyway with Brooks aboard. That of course remains to be seen.
Do people just skim posts? I said IF Tony leaves.
If he doesn't then It changes a lot obviously.
I dont like the word "desperate" but I find it difficult to believe that Whitman is not being looked at as a possible replacement for Bradley leaving one year earlier than the staff projected. Or maybe the staff contacted Whitman just in case Brooks went elsewhere.
Except you didn't. You said "I'm picturing Tony leaving" and that you felt Roy might be desperate for looking at a 1 year graduate. Has zero to do with skimming posts.
Yeah, to me 'desperate' is the coach who digs into the dirty bag of tricks to lure recruits.... maybe stuff like using an assistant to spread negative recruiting ("school xyz is getting the death penalty" etc)
Or maybe desperate is the new coach who hires the dad of a top recruit and then let's the top recruit go out and try recruit other unsigned players. Or even the coach who keeps signing 5* players but never plays them!
Roy doesn't seem desperate... I've always had the impression that he likes to use every scholarship in his budget - either filling a need with a grad transfer, or rewarding a senior walk-on.
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Picturing tony leaving (I have no clue either way if he's staying or not)= IF
Context is everything and I'm pretty sure you know exactly what I meant.
And I stand by what I said, if Roy is thinking tony is leaving he probably doesn't have as much confidence as all of you in these frosh bigs,(in the sense that they probably all won't contribute right away) so in a sense it is a desperate move to go after a kid fro William and Mary. Nowhere in my post did I say Roy is a desperate recruiter or anything like that. More that it's a desperate situation where he probably doesn't want to be stuck with 3 lower 100 ranked bigs and Luke maye.
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From everything g I have heard Whitman was an I Durance policy but my guy now says Bradley is waffling on coming back. Like Gary said earlier negative nancies are in his dad's ear so we shall see. The good guys apparently are they big to explain to dad that he would be a top 19 pick next yr . So far dad isn't listening
Give me Tony, a five star big, over any of them. Remember when we didn't have any trouble landing top big men? Those were the days man.
Speaking of context, You were countering that us going after a 1 year transfer was not exciting because it signals we're losing Bradley. That was never my point to begin with, which means your point is inapplicable. This really isn't this deep
Except I've already said that. Roy probably doesn't expect these guys to come in and be ready day 1. I know I don't. That's why he was looking for someone experienced, who's already played in the college system for 3 years. The only other option would be another 3 star player "diamond in the rough", seeing that most of the top 100 have committed or are way too entrenched in their recruiting to get involved with.
Obviously losing your 2 best front court players isn't exactly easy to replace this late in the game, so if that's what you consider a desperate situation, so be it. 2017 was obviously not our year in the big department. Having a 1 year option that could keep us afloat until our next recruiting period that has already started off strong is a great option. It's better than taking another gamble on players that will more than likely not be ready day 1.
And like already mentioned, he was getting interest before Brooks committed, so it was likely he was his backup plan, not Bradley's.
If Bradley wants to go, we should support him. He helped us win a championship and has a late 1st round grade.
Everyone saying negative people are telling him to go or that he isn't ready is just being ignorant imo.
It is his choice and if he goes; I fully support his decision. He just won a championship.
Everyone saying negative people are telling him to go or that he isn't ready is just being ignorant imo.
It is his choice and if he goes; I fully support his decision. He just won a championship.
You put them Bigs in with some dern good backcourt combos and you just might get surprised.
But you would rather whizz and moan about who we don't have.
The writing on the wall with us looking at a grad transfer is that Knox is not coming. Just my 2 cents.
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