UNC's GM search

Edouble said:
I'm sorry, but I have to ask... how would Kupchak have known about your articles? Didn't he play high school ball in New York? Did the unc staff send him clippings from The Chronicle?
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I suspect the latter, teams always sniffed around other teams they were recruiting against...I used to get all kinds of weird mail from people who subscribed including mild threat from a Gamecock who objected to my description of the football crowd at South Carolina...
 
OldPhiKap said:
Carrier pigeon must have gone the wrong way. A common problem back in The Big War.
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bloody hawks!
Even back in those ancient days, Duke and unc went head to head for nearly all high profile recruits: Heyman, Diminutive Dynamite Dick DeVenzio, Dennis Wuycik, just to name a few, and negative recruiting was to be found in great abundance.
 
I'm going to miss this mini cheats squad.Theyre like ity bity little dudes that Duke just towers over.Matt Doh would come back there if they beg!
 
UNC just got some serious spending oversight from the Board of Governors. Gonna be interesting to see how this pans out.
 
Has anybody over there thought about MJ? He's always making recommendations, why not challenge him to step up? (though maybe he's holding out for coronation as the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, LOL)
 
when the savants at IC came up with the breathtaking mention of Buzz Peterson as a prospective GM, it cracked me up.
They might have gone for Gut had he not died ten years ago. They still feel compelled to keep their incompetence in the family.
 
budwom said:
I wrote for the Chronicle when Bucky Waters was the hoop coach, former assistant under Bubas. Long story short: he recruited a really great group of frosh, but Bucky's style was pure 1950s, and this group of Duke kids was very much of the 1960s variety. Socially interesting dynamic, oil and water comes to mind. Yoooge difference, believe me. Players very much disliked Bucky, and I knew several of the players pretty well, so I wrote about this discord...Bucky would not talk to me, but his top assistant, Hubie Brown, was very nice to me (I think he well understood the team dynamic)...Hubie told me Bucky thought my writings led would-be recruit Kupchak to go to unc, but facts will show (as the lawyers say) that players transferred en masse under Bucky, they wanted no part of him.
Of the initial five man touted class Bucky got, Bill Fitzsimmons quickly transferred to Harvard, Richie O'Connor (good pal) went to Fairfield, Jeff Dawson went to Illinois....Gary Melchionni (future trustee) and Alan Shaw stuck it out. Many more players were recruited and transferred.
Happy ending is Bucky went off to work in the Med Center where he had a long and productive career, we see him every game sitting near Coach K in seats near the end line at age 88 I think...Melchionni has since told me he considers Bucky to be "rehabilitated." Maybe that's where the Russians fit in.
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budwom said:
I wrote for the Chronicle when Bucky Waters was the hoop coach, former assistant under Bubas. Long story short: he recruited a really great group of frosh, but Bucky's style was pure 1950s, and this group of Duke kids was very much of the 1960s variety. Socially interesting dynamic, oil and water comes to mind. Yoooge difference, believe me. Players very much disliked Bucky, and I knew several of the players pretty well, so I wrote about this discord...Bucky would not talk to me, but his top assistant, Hubie Brown, was very nice to me (I think he well understood the team dynamic)...Hubie told me Bucky thought my writings led would-be recruit Kupchak to go to unc, but facts will show (as the lawyers say) that players transferred en masse under Bucky, they wanted no part of him.
Of the initial five man touted class Bucky got, Bill Fitzsimmons quickly transferred to Harvard, Richie O'Connor (good pal) went to Fairfield, Jeff Dawson went to Illinois....Gary Melchionni (future trustee) and Alan Shaw stuck it out. Many more players were recruited and transferred.
Happy ending is Bucky went off to work in the Med Center where he had a long and productive career, we see him every game sitting near Coach K in seats near the end line at age 88 I think...Melchionni has since told me he considers Bucky to be "rehabilitated." Maybe that's where the Russians fit in.
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Oh the good old days of waiting for the next transfer announcement after that frosh team was undefeated. Too bad Jack Schalow didn’t go up to coach them at varsity level.
 
budwom said:
I wrote for the Chronicle when Bucky Waters was the hoop coach, former assistant under Bubas. Long story short: he recruited a really great group of frosh, but Bucky's style was pure 1950s, and this group of Duke kids was very much of the 1960s variety. Socially interesting dynamic, oil and water comes to mind. Yoooge difference, believe me. Players very much disliked Bucky, and I knew several of the players pretty well, so I wrote about this discord...Bucky would not talk to me, but his top assistant, Hubie Brown, was very nice to me (I think he well understood the team dynamic)...Hubie told me Bucky thought my writings led would-be recruit Kupchak to go to unc, but facts will show (as the lawyers say) that players transferred en masse under Bucky, they wanted no part of him.
Of the initial five man touted class Bucky got, Bill Fitzsimmons quickly transferred to Harvard, Richie O'Connor (good pal) went to Fairfield, Jeff Dawson went to Illinois....Gary Melchionni (future trustee) and Alan Shaw stuck it out. Many more players were recruited and transferred.
Happy ending is Bucky went off to work in the Med Center where he had a long and productive career, we see him every game sitting near Coach K in seats near the end line at age 88 I think...Melchionni has since told me he considers Bucky to be "rehabilitated." Maybe that's where the Russians fit in.
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Forgot-r u Bob in Miami?
 
soflabluedevil said:
Oh the good old days of waiting for the next transfer announcement after that frosh team was undefeated. Too bad Jack Schalow didn’t go up to coach them at varsity level.
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I can't remember (sometimes) what I had for dinner last night, but periodically the names of guys who transferred pop into my head.
Don Blackman (first AFAM scholarship player from north of the Mason Dixon line), Ron Righter, Dave Elmer...they seemed to leave as quickly as we signed them...
 
Bumping this because of the enjoyment I get reading the GM Search thread (at the very top) at Inside Carolina Premium. Much confusion as to what, if any, process they are following....one person said he expects the choice to be Cluster F. Buzz Peterson was much mentioned and much ridiculed, now some guy Mike Schmitz, who is an assistant GM with the Trailblazers and has a thin resume' is being mentioned.
Maybe they should hire Nina, Jon and Rachel Baker as consultants to help them along.
 
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