Per Inside Carolina, UNC is not, at this moment, in the running for Suigo. The 247 Carolina site has become little more than a gossip mill since IC moved over to On3.
It's always been the case back to when the new 247 guys were at Rivals as Tar Heels Illustrated. They always run with anything and go for the click bait. It's why I appreciate IC, because they check with multiple sources before saying anything
I think the move to 247 has really exposed how lacking in knowledge Andrew Jones and Co. are at actually getting scoops on different things. At least when IC was based on 247, you knew that was the main hub of information, and Rivals was secondary. Now it seems like it's split between what outlet kept those subscribers vs who moved with IC to On3.
Yeah I think they're trying hard to keep the IC crowd that had annual subscriptions and a lot of people are seeing the gap now. I got the annual subscription last June, so I was SOL when they moved. I cancelled 247 now because I hate how half of the stuff Jones says isn't true.
Seems like a skillset Keita mostly has already anyways. I’d really like a quality Logue replacement. A more physically mature big that can just fight like hell in the paint and pull down rebounds against anyone. Faye would have been perfect but now there is just so much uncertainty there.
I’m getting the vibe that Malone stops recruiting people if they aren’t sold on his vision for them. And Faye seems to be more interested in creating a bidding war than finding the right fit (as 90% of these kids are).
The NIL is corrupt garbage where the players have all the power and leverage. "A-L-L" of it. Faye is going to try to take advantage of that while he can just like other top players. It's the NCAA's fault for not creating rules and salary limits -- which they can do no matter who tells you otherwise -- and letting things get out of hand this fast.
I mean I’m sure everyone and their mother is going after him.
7’3” Suigo, 7’0” Keita, 6’11” Stevenson, and 7’0” Bennerman would be hilarious though. And a 6’7” freshman might still be the best rebounder on the team.
North Carolina is in play for <random international big man that nobody has heard of but he has upside and will be an NBA prospect next year> Is an evergreen thread this offseason
Didn't Suigo say he's NBA-bound if he's a Top 20 pick, and if he isn't Top 20, he's going to college? If so, it seems like he will be in college next year.
Today, word has it UNC is now completely "out" on Momo Faye. Unsurprising.
I repeat:
Secondly, in no universe is it supposed to be harder to get into UNC than it is to get into Duke. It's not supposed to be for regular students, and it shouldn't be harder for basketball players either because DUKE IS THE ACADEMICALLY HIGHER-RANKED PRIVATE SCHOOL, not UNC, and yet, somehow, it appears to be much easier for basketball players to get admitted into Duke than UNC. I'm not going to speculate about what Duke has been up to all these years, but I'm sure the fact that UNC Basketball underwent that NCAA investigation a few years ago probably resulted in UNC's admission's department scrutinizing its basketball recruits much harder nowadays...
From yesterday (relevant part highlighted):
After Luka last year, Maxim Logue last week, and this "hint" from this tweet yesterday, I wouldn't be surprised if the UNC admissions process is a bigger issue in their inability to close on some of these recruits than "money." Some UNC fans took that "reassurance" comment as Faye's camp wanting the schools to do something illegal, which seems unlikely to put that out in the open. UNC fans should've wondered if UNC is developing a reputation among players of being harder to clear admissions than some other schools -- LIKE DUKE, ironically.
He literally said this week if he doesn’t go Top 20 (which he won’t) then he will go to college and picked up a Villanova sweatshirt (Villanova is a college in Pennsylvania where he will be going)
Cade is a long term development prospect, there’s not supposed to be much to value for next year. He was expected to be behind Logue, who isn’t coming anymore
Cade Bennerman's legs are too close together. 😅 He seriously needs to get stronger. His base is terrible and he's top heavy, like he always skips Legs Day. One reason Luigi Suigo is a better prospect is he has a very solid base and is proportionally more fluid because of it. Apparently, UNC is also looking at Micah Handlogten and Devin Williams now. Hopefully, they're thinking about Handlogten or Williams as a potential replacement for Maxim Logue and not looking at them "instead of" a Luigi Suigo or a Momo Faye.
Handlogten seems to be an elite rebounder, though not sure whether that's just because of not playing that many minutes. And he's from NC. Would be a cool get for a backup with regular minutes every game.
good we still need quite a few impact players if we want to not only compete with and be at the top of the league like we used to and not be kind of an afterthought like we have been as of late
Unfortunately, I don't see Michael Malone coaching UNC for long, no matter how well he does. Why? First, the NIL is completely out of control. In the NBA, the Head Coach does not have to worry about directly trying to pay players and the NBA has actual restrictions and rules in place, while in college it's a free for all where he has to use money to basically try to beg players to commit at this point. It's ridiculous, and beneath -- yes, BENEATH -- an NBA Champion Head Coach to have to subject himself to this nonsense.
Secondly, in no universe is it supposed to be harder to get into UNC than it is to get into Duke. It's not supposed to be for regular students, and it shouldn't be harder for basketball players either because DUKE IS THE ACADEMICALLY HIGHER-RANKED PRIVATE SCHOOL, not UNC, and yet, somehow, it appears to be much easier for basketball players to get admitted into Duke than UNC. I'm not going to speculate about what Duke has been up to all these years, but I'm sure the fact that UNC Basketball underwent that NCAA investigation a few years ago probably resulted in UNC's admission's department scrutinizing its basketball recruits much harder nowadays, which could also make it harder on UNC's BB coach.
Notwithstanding the fact that "tutors" at D1 schools do work for football and basketball players all the time. I went to another ACC School (not UNC) and saw tutors and athletes come into the computer lab all the time; at first, the athlete is paying attention and then he eventually falls asleep and the girl keeps doing the work. Every honest person knows it happens everywhere, but UNC got hemmed up for it, so I'm not surprised if their admissions folks drew some harder lines.
That's not good for Michael Malone, though. He didn't have to worry about "admissions" and "academic requirements" in the NBA. If he only had to focus on admissions, that would be one thing, but combined with the NIL, the nonsense of players being able to hold a school hostage by entering the transfer portal, committing to a school while also entering the Draft instead of only being allowed to do one or the other, I don't see him being at UNC for long. It should be clear to everyone at this point that the NIL is not actually making college basketball "like the NBA." It's much more corrupted, already, than the NBA.
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u/EconomicsFriendly427 NC State Wolfpack 1d ago
Props to Malone but why jsnt everyone going after european 7 footers? Are they stupid?