UNC Recruiting

Carolina is a sleeping giant. If you think Wake and State can get solid players during their good years, UNC will blow them out of the water now that they're getting good.
 
Hell, half of there player's come right out of North Carolina. The reason tech doesn't recruit that great is because of UGA, and some other teams.
 
Geori said:
How the hell do they get such a good class?
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Butch Davis can recruit, there's no doubt about that. And UNC pretty much gets the pick from the state of NC anyway.

If Davis can turn them around big time, he'll probably leave for a bigger school like Brown did.
 
Geori said:
How the hell do they get such a good class? UNC actually has good academics and people care more about hoops than football there. We should be bringing in better players than they do.

http://rivals100.rivals.com/commitlist.asp?Year=2009&School=52
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UNC has always been interesting to me, because as the premier state school there is no reason they can't be competitive in both sports like the Florida's, Wisconsin's, Texas's, OSU's, etc. of the world.

Their academics are good, but they still have plenty of cake majors to hide people in.
 
The state of Ga. has many more D-1 HS players each
year than NC. Even if UGA picks off the cream from
the state year in & year out, there will be more than
enough quality talent left for Tech.

I saw somewhere that Ga. had something like 140
D-1 potential HS players this year alone. Since a
school should only be able to sign about 20 per
year, (unless you are Bama or UNC), this will leave
Tech an opportunity under this staff, to have a top
25 class every year.

You can be sure that is all CPJ will need. See Utah.
 
UNC has always recruited well...going back to Mack Brown. At one point during his head coaching time there, UNC had more players in the NFL than any time in the country except Ohio State.
 
when you think about the intangibles, UNC is pretty desireable for players. They have tons of HOT girls, great weather, and they have a well know African Amerian Studies major which a lot of the athletes tend to take.
 
You can major in practically anything at UNC and last I knew the student body was more than 50% female. Those two things alone are a tremendous help.
 
UNC's class is good. They have 26 committed but they only have room under the scholly limit for about 13 of them. They had 83 total scholarship players this year with 11 seniors. 83-11=72...85-72=13 available new scholarships. That means they either need alot of attrition or they are going to have to have some combination of 13 kids not qualifing or greyshirting. It will be interesting to see how they make all of these guys fit.
 
Geori said:
How the hell do they get such a good class? UNC actually has good academics and people care more about hoops than football there. We should be bringing in better players than they do.

http://rivals100.rivals.com/commitlist.asp?Year=2009&School=52
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Sure their academics are good but we suffer a bad reputation, whether deserved or not, of not having a varied choice of majors. Most of the stud kids don't want to be bothered by tough academics. If we want those kids, we need to make changes.
 
mts315 said:
UNC's class is good. They have 26 committed but they only have room under the scholly limit for about 13 of them. They had 83 total scholarship players this year with 11 seniors. 83-11=72...85-72=13 available new scholarships. That means they either need alot of attrition or they are going to have to have some combination of 13 kids not qualifing or greyshirting. It will be interesting to see how they make all of these guys fit.
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:rolleyes: Bobby Dodd would be proud.
 
I just don't get it, especially after NCSU absolutely embarrassed UNC this year and probably will do so again next year.
 
Having lived in NC for a while, NCSU is not the state school -- it is like Georgia Southern or Georgia State to UGAg -- the residents there may like NCSU, but UNC is THE state school. And even losing a few times in football will not change that stature.
 
Football will always be 2nd to basketball at UNC. Watch Butch Davis build UNC into a top 5 team, then bolt for the Auburn job or something.
 
Watch Butch Davis build UNC into a top 5 team, then bolt for the Auburn job or something.
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UNC's football ceiling is top 20, not top 5, considering what division they're in. (ours, VTs, Miami's)
 
beej67 said:
UNC's football ceiling is top 20, not top 5, considering what division they're in. (ours, VTs, Miami's)
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well, they were about top 5 when butch davis was there for about 2 years, i seem to recall. i just looked it up, they were 10th one year and 6th the next.

that was before VT and Miami were in the league, but so what? you are saying that no way UNC is ever better than VT or Miami?

In 1988, Brown took over a North Carolina program that had suffered two losing seasons in its previous three years and three non-winning seasons in its previous four years. While rebuilding the foundation, Brown's Tar Heels squads posted back-to-back 1-10 seasons in 1988 and '89. In 1990, Carolina was 6-4-1 and the Tar Heels were beginning a run of eight consecutive winning seasons and six straight bowl game appearances. UNC's 54-18 (.750) record during his last six years ranked as the ninth-best nationally during that period. His final two seasons were the most impressive. He compiled a 20-3 (.870) mark and led the Heels to a No. 4 final ranking in the USA Today/ESPN poll and No. 6 ranking by The AP in 1997.
 
that was before VT and Miami were in the league, but so what? you are saying that no way UNC is ever better than VT or Miami?
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I'm saying that this half of the ACC is far too competitive for any one team to emerge as a top 5, particularly for a team who's coach is (at best) the 3rd best in his division.

Really what I'm saying is that Beamer > Davis and PJ > Davis, and both are in UNC's division.

In this division, I don't think GT or VT will ever crack top 5 either, unless one of our programs happens to get enough balls bouncing our way to make a NC game.
 
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