I can see why they wouldn’t retain the director of recruiting, but I was surprised about Robinson. After 18 years he seemed like a lifer.
Davis named his staff - keeping May and Frederick and adding Jeff Lebo, which accomplishes the goal of having someone with extensive head coaching experience. I always thought of Lebo as being a lot older but Davis and Lebo overlapped at UNC for a year. Jackie Manuel as director of player development - looks like he spent the past year working with the UNC women's team. Robinson (assistant coach) and Kendall Marshall (director of recruiting) are gone.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...coaching-staff
I can see why they wouldn’t retain the director of recruiting, but I was surprised about Robinson. After 18 years he seemed like a lifer.
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May and Manuel have AFAM degrees, so they know how the "Carolina Way" works.
Thanks for that.
This part is hilarious to me:
Did he forget about the time he got Cam Johnson from Pitt and got the waiver for immediate playing time? I guess that didn't bother Roy too much, did it?As for Williams’ thoughts on the transfer portal, he hasn’t been afraid to make them public. Speaking in March, he raised concerns regarding immediate eligibility for first-time transfers.
“I think it will be the most significant piece of legislation that’s ever happened in college basketball,” Williams said March 10. “I'm old school. I believe if you have a little adversity, you ought to fight through it, and it makes you stronger at the end. I believe when you make a commitment, that commitment should be solid. And it should be to do everything you can to make it work out. We have all, even you guys on this screen here, have seen guys come in as freshmen that were okay or not good. They were better sophomores and they were better juniors and they were better seniors. And they were drafted.
I guess ending his career on hypocrisy is pretty on-brand for Ol' Huck.
I'm not one to defend Roy but I put grad transfers like Johnson in a different bucket than undergrad transfers (and I kind of liked the old rules where the NCAA did the same). Just did a little research and UNC has had a few non-grad transfers under Roy to prove your point, though neither was a major contributor - Wes Miller and KJ Smith.
Yea but they still applied for a waiver and it got granted (Johnson had TWO years of eligibility left). And he was able to get Pitt to relent on the inter-ACC transfer policy they had, as well as "team on their schedule."
It's not like Johnson had to go through any of the "hardship" Roy is blathering about. And I'm sure Roy wasn't sad about reloading without having to recruit and develop a freshman after winning a natty.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-bas...nsfer-unc-pitt
He had two years remaining because he graduated in three years. Kudos to him for being able to graduate in three years - that's not something to ding him for. The waiver was to Pitt refusing to let him transfer within the conference, which is a policy that has since largely been eliminated. If I recall, Swofford kind of strong-armed Pitt into waiving it, which was admittedly a little dodgy, but this is far from the most egregious policy violation I have ever seen because in this case, it was kind of a dumb rule, which is why it no longer exists.
Anyway, Robinson's coaching bio (per Wiki):
Seven years a Div I head coach. Came with Roy from Kansas.Code:Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1983–1986 Radford (assistant) 1986–1988 Cornell (assistant) 1988–1995 Kansas (assistant) 1995–1997 Tulsa 1997–2002 Florida State 2002–2003 Kansas (assistant) 2003–2021 North Carolina (assistant)
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Lebo won 36% of his SEC games at Auburn and never made a NCAA tourney in 6 seasons there. He then went on East Carolina where he won (you guessed it) 36% of his conference games in the AAC/ConfUSA over 8 seasons and never even made the NIT, let alone the NCAA tourney.
Yup, he's just the person I want to see giving Hubert in-game coaching advice. Excellent hire!
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