It should be anybody on planet earth but it'll probably be Wes Miller from UNC-Greensboro or Hubert Davis.Man, who would be the targets here?
if jerry stackhouse was any good at vanderbilt he would probably get considered. Can you sell the fan base on an alum who has a losing record?Man, who would be the targets here?
As a Duke fan agree with all this, but surprised he didn't give it one more year to go out in a "normal" season.It should be anybody on planet earth but it'll probably be Wes Miller from UNC-Greensboro or Hubert Davis.
Roy brought all of us Carolina honks a great deal of joy and rescued us out of the death spiral the Matt Doherty era was, but the last two years haven't been much to write home about and I think he's struggled to adapt to the new era/style of basketball. I think this is probably well-timed, outside of being April 1.
The two 'offer the radar' candidates you refer to have Long Island connections.Hubert Davis and Wes Miller should be targets. A lot of the obvious targets have been mentioned. Two off the radar candidates that would shock people are Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell and Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard. Pikiell has completely turned around Rutgers, has shown he can recruit and get really good players and recruiting to Chapel Hill is a hell of a lot easier than it is to Piscataway. He does it the right way as well as you won't ever have to worry about any type of academic fraud scandal or anything of the sorts that has happened there recently. Willard has built something good at Seton Hall as well.
Brad Stevens, head coach, Boston Celtics. There is some chatter among UNC alums that Williams would be happy to see Stevens replace him in Chapel Hill. Stevens, however, just flatly batted away any notion of taking over at Indiana, so saying yes to North Carolina would not go over well with folks back in his native state. Taking this job would also require Stevens to bail on the Celtics before the season is over. The Celtics are mired in eighth place in the Eastern Conference playoff standings, but it’s hard to imagine that would dampen the enthusiasm of UNC fans (or the fear of the Duke ones) if North Carolina made this hire.
Brad Stevens - loses to Duke in big spots. Bring him on board ASAP.
It's either 10 or 14, depending on how you count.Rutgers of the Big 12.
haha....fat fingers.It's either 10 or 14, depending on how you count.
This fiasco changed Higher Ed accreditation and administrative practices across the field. It was a massive failure of UNC at every level, with the athletic department deep in the mix. Outside of the institutional tolerance for sex abuse at Penn State & Michigan State, what happened at UNC is the biggest and most consequential scandal in many, many years. Lori Laughlin and Rick Pitino pale in comparison.Let's remember that dozens and dozens of Roy's players (including most of his 2005 championship team) went through the fraud courses that earned UNC (not the athletic department...the UNIVERSITY itself, so bad was the fraud) a year of probation and nearly lost accreditation, which would have been absolutely unfathomable.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/06/12/accrediting-body-places-unc-probation
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/16/breaking-ncaa-finds-no-academic-fraud-unc
Long story short, they never faced NCAA punishment because aside from the *1,500* athletes who took these sham courses (including a lot of men's basketball players), non-athletes took them as well, so it didn't comprise a "special benefit" for the athletes, and thus they couldn't do anything about it.*
Good riddance to Roy.
*The lesson obviously being: if you're going to commit fraud on behalf of your athletes, just make sure you do it for non-athletes, and then there's nothing the NCAA can do about it.
Roy beating himself up through this presser and saying he's retiring b/c he's no longer the right man for the job is pretty tough. It really makes me wish he'd stayed until he had an opportunity to go out on a higher note. The good from his tenures at Carolina and Kansas deserved to get a lot more celebrated than the tone/feeling this ended up being.
I think KU just game him an offer he can't refuse.Bill Self would certainly be the funniest target.