Once the administration noticed he had his degree in African Studies and his GPA was a 4.0 they knew they had their guy!!
Hubert Davis next Head Coach at UNC
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I should have said this when I shared this link earlier. FWIW I don't know if UNC actually offered Jay Wright or even inquired about him, but I will say he didn't have any interest in the job: https://thespun.com/acc/north-carolina/jay-wright-not-interested-in-north-carolina-job
For everyone who wanted to fire Cal this year... Indiana got Mike Woodson and UNC got Hubert Davis. Who is lining up to coach UK that wouldn’t have gone to either of those historically prestigious schools? Grass/greener etc..
This is really what I’ve been referring to since December. There just aren’t many, if any, coaches who will jump on the “top” jobs right now who deserve a look. I mean.....Hubert Davis?? Mike Woodson?? Kentucky wouldn’t do a lot better. We needed to give ourselves a little runway. We did and let’s see how it goes next season.
Now that I finished my joke on the Hubert Davis JV banner and clarified what I wanted to say about that link, I'll make a serious post on my thoughts about this hire. My thought is if they were even considering going outside of the UNC connection, maybe that "slam dunk" hire wasn't realistic for them. I mean, maybe they could have gotten Nate Oats to leave Bama, Chris Holtmann to leave Ohio State or Eric Musselman to leave Arkansas (I'm stressing maybe, I'm in no way saying they would have left those jobs for UNC)... but I don't think they were getting a Brad Stevens, Jay Wright, Mark Few, Tony Bennett, etc.
And of the three I mentioned that I think they maybe could have gotten, are any of them grand slam hires? I'm not so sure. A few people here think Oats has Avery Johnson's players to thank for his success this year, a few Ohio State fans don't think a ton of Holtmann's coaching abilities (at least I saw a few on their message boards saying this after they lost to Oral Roberts) and while I like Musselman and think he'll do a very good job at Arkansas, again I'm not sure if I'd put him in the grand slam hire category.
And of the three I mentioned that I think they maybe could have gotten, are any of them grand slam hires? I'm not so sure. A few people here think Oats has Avery Johnson's players to thank for his success this year, a few Ohio State fans don't think a ton of Holtmann's coaching abilities (at least I saw a few on their message boards saying this after they lost to Oral Roberts) and while I like Musselman and think he'll do a very good job at Arkansas, again I'm not sure if I'd put him in the grand slam hire category.
FWIW it sounds like Roy preferred Hubert while some others with UNC ties preferred Wes Miller, a former player of Roy's who is now the coach at UNC-Greensboro. In that case, you knew Roy's opinion would likely win out. And I can see the argument for Hubert over Miller. Hubert's been on Roy's staff for the last 8 or 9 years, and while Miller has done a solid job at UNC-Greensboro, it's a big step up in class to UNC-Chapel Hill : https://thespun.com/acc/north-carol...ayers-preferred-wes-miller-hubert-davis-coach
This is an easy hire to understand. There is a very good reason to hire a person with no HC experience over someone that has 10 years plus in todays's time. Its all about social political correctness.
It’s damn near cultish
Jay Wright has too much integrity to go that scum diploma mill.
The prayers to George Floyd have been answered!
I was concerned they would go get a legitimate coach instead of the incestuous obligation to the Carolina Way.
I was concerned they would go get a legitimate coach instead of the incestuous obligation to the Carolina Way.
I’ll never get some programs obsession with “keeping it in the family”.
Those from within the family are less likely to talk about the family’s darker secrets.
Remember that Dean was passing on how to maintain the academic support department that was enabling and supporting the massive cheating fraud. He told Doh not to touch that program. Now we know why. They kept it in the family so that they could keep the cheating going "under the radar."
No guarantee of a good hire. For every Hall and Williams you get a Woodson, a Davis, a Doherty, an Ollie, a Tubby (the best of these but still a disappointment .)
No surprise at all. It had to be one of them who had played there, knew how the Fraud Carolina Way no classroom wheels for heels system worked. When Hubert leaves he will be succeeded by another one.
Anybody who thought they would go outside the “System” was kidding themselves.
Anybody who thought they would go outside the “System” was kidding themselves.
I called it last Saturday that the hire would be a person of color..that's the trending thing right now. Gotta stay PC
. This feels like a disaster waiting to happen.
Definitely better options available that would create more buzz around the program.
His career coaching experience is literally a low level assistant under Roy for 8 years and the UNC JV head coach.
Have to keep it in the family so the bodies stay buried.
Also I like how the beta cuck (you can tell) in the original tweet is making it sounds super duper duper serious and intense by saying “MUH emergency meeting” lol.
This would be about like us hiring Tony Delk if he were still an assistant here. You don't get 5 different coaches with titles by keeping it in the family. It really does seem like they keep it in the family to keep the skeletons buried. An outsider might change the status quo.
Is that like horse shi#t with the h silent?
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In some ways I understand the hire. Former UNC player, Roy protege
but I also don’t understand. Like youre UNC a blueblood. You can pluck away just about any non blueblood out there. Go for Drew or Wright. Why hire a person with 0 procem success as a head coach
but I also don’t understand. Like youre UNC a blueblood. You can pluck away just about any non blueblood out there. Go for Drew or Wright. Why hire a person with 0 procem success as a head coach
They can’t hire and won’t hire someone outside the Dean E Smith corrupt fraudulent system of the Carolina Way. No classes, Wheels for Heels, etc.
I don’t understand how some people don’t get this. When the NCAA let them walk on October 13, 2017, they were given the green light to proceed with no penalty.
I don’t understand how some people don’t get this. When the NCAA let them walk on October 13, 2017, they were given the green light to proceed with no penalty.
I was going to say this. For all the people out there that ***** about a white guy getting a HC job somewhere when there were black candidates, possibly with a greater resume not getting a good look, will they admit that this is one that went their way? I doubt it. A black guy that has never been a head coach anywhere taking over one of college basketball's blueblood programs. Was anyone else even considered?
Good man there. He lives and breaths Carolina blue. We need Cal to live and breath Kentucky blue.
You're failing to consider a couple of things: 1} there's not a coach in the country who would turn down UK, but then accept the IU job. Not one...I suspect there's tons who would go in the other direction, that is turn IU down and take the UK job. Probably a ton who'd turn down the IU job because they'd heard a rumor that there was a chance that they'd get an interview for the UK job. And 2} It's pretty much a given that UNC could've hired a much better coach, if they'd been willing to hire outside the family. UK won't be putting that constraint on its search for Cal's replacement
Plus he doesn't need UNC. He's got it made at Villanova. No need to leave a place where you're the man for a place where you might end up #3 behind Dean Smith and ole Roy.
I just returned from the year 2024 and UNC just FARRRRR'd that sonofabeyitch.
tarheelillustrated thread was a hoot - plenty of "insiders" saying it would definitely NOT be Davis...only to limp back a day, even hours later to say they were wrong. Anywhere else I can read their moaning?
Reminds me of the “Hire Travis Ford! Hire John Pelphrey” fans once upon a time.
Its weird that a group that spent the last season bemoaning Coach Calipari not grasping the "tradition of Kentucky" and accusing him of coaching to spite them are now crying because UNC hired someone who is firmly entrenched in their tradition.
Weird.
Weird.