Justin Pierce Commits to North Carolina
Well fuck...
Cam Johnson 2.0. I knew when UNC got the last visit, we were in trouble.
Maizen just came.
He definitely gets off on what he sees as a recruiting cuckolding
Here's the link to his tweet
.https://twitter.com/JustinPierce23/status/1123980591949594624
Definitely had my hopes up for him. Just gotta go out and find another shooter.
Trip McNeely...girls at Huntington still talk about you...
They do? Which ones?
Welp... Wagner and Hyland come on down
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there were some mentions on UMHoops this morning that Yaklich unfollowed both Pierce AND Hyland on Twitter this morning. I can't confirm that but....yea, not a great day thus far.
How does one keep track of that lol
Folks with WAYYYY too much time on their hands lol
Dylan doesn't have too much time on his hands.
Folks with way too much free time ? I’m sure you never watch tv or read a book....or go on mgoblog.
Just read that Hyland deactivated his Twitter account to block out the noise.
So you're telling me there's a chance...
Thanks for that. That would totally make sense.
Also hearing that there could potentially be academic issues due to him missing some school after the fire slowing that recruitment, which is why he could take a prep year
For me, the Highland news was the most disappointing thing that happened today. I had my hopes up for a Wagner & Highland commitment in the near future.
Makes me excited about the class we are going to have. Best of luck, Justin
Ol' Roy really knows how to sell a bill of goods. Just read Pierce's quotes on 247 and they make very little sense but best of luck to him. Feel for Beilein though, he put Duncan Robinson in the NBA he's probably like what more do I have to do to get kids like this. Basketball recruiting makes no sense.
Roy is a really good coach, and he's a really good dude. Pierce probably would have a better shot at the NBA at Michigan, but honestly, growing up these kids dream about playing for a blue blood like Duke, Kentucky, UNC, and Kansas. Pierce is from William & Mary, and I can't blame him for being a little shocked at the opportunity to play for one of college basketballs premier programs and having the opportunity to play in college basketball's best rivalry. Good luck to him, it's a bummer for sure, but I don't think this is a bad move. Maybe a slightly less good move but not necessarily bad.
Good dude? Isn't Roy dirty as a pig dick?
No no no, Roy isn't dirty.
UNC as an institution kind of has some black eyes though.
Honestly, it's college athletics. Almost everyone is dirty as a pig dick.
Roy is a good dude? I must have missed that between the decade of fake classes and the insinuations on FBI wiretaps that UNC is one of the biggest cheaters in college basketball.
I missed the insinuation on FBI wiretaps. So did the FBI, apparently.
Almost everyone cheats in big time college athletics. It's a nature of the game. The fake classes weren't great, but not sure how paying players makes someone a bad dude.
Hi, Ethics! No, no, not playing by the rules is what everyone does. I mean, I said it so it is factual.
Buddy, bury your head in the sand, but it's very open and blatant everywhere. Not to change the subject, but if it's about ethics and morality and not cheating, hopefully you're not rooting for football this fall.
Not a good dude at all. Phony as they come and very likely dirty. In addition, has underperformed his talent over the years.
He's been working with stacked decks his whole career.
Underperformed his talent?
I hate this saying that gets thrown around about Duke, Kentucky, and I guess UNC now.
What more should Roy be doing at UNC? Really. I want to know.
He should have won 6 nattys over the past 5 years obviously
Compete on an even playing field like other coaches are supposed to do. Teach morals and ethics to college students. I could go on...
He is competing on an even playing field. He does teach morals and ethics. It's time to stop with this notion that 18-21 year olds monetizing their most valuable and fleeting skill is a heinous crime to humanity. Winning will always take precedent over almost everything else, and Roy does that well.
Saying UNC, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Arizona, formerly Louisville and others have been competing on an even playing field is simply not true or you are being purposely obtuse.
Regardless of whether other teams are cheating (they are, LSU, Auburn, USC, etc) the whole college basketball recruiting structure has been biased to UNC, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Arizona, and formerly Louisville for a long time and the coaches at those schools have been perfectly complicit with it. I think morals, ethics and fair play should still count for something in college sports. Primarily because the athletes are not getting paid. Other than the elite few who go on to play professionally, what else are they playing for?
They aren't on an even playing field, just like Michigan isn't in football outside of like 4 programs. But we don't complain about that, do we?
"I think morals, ethics and fair play should still count for something in college sports".......
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, that's some funny shit right there. Why, because the NCAA is such a moral and ethical business model? College sports is a for profit sleaze fest. You best learn to play ball accordingly. Or hang moral victory banners, lol.
You mean the historically successful programs with great coaches do better in recruiting than other programs? Holy shit, incredible.
Compete on an even playing field? Huh?
Five Final Fours and three national championships in sixteen years is underachieving? I love Beilein but I'd take those results any day. His hit rate of getting to the Final Four and/or winning it all is at least on par with Coach K's over the last 20 years, and is arguably even better, considering Coach K has only four Final Fours and and three national championships since 2000, and Roy Williams has seven Final Fours (two with Kansas, I believe) and three national championships since 2000.
Getting to the mountaintop, and staying there, is a lot harder in college basketball than it is in college football. That's why you almost never see defending champions repeat the following year. So no, he's not going to make the Final Four every year. But hardly anyone ever does. If he's underachieving, then I guess you have to say that almost every blue blood school is underachieving, too, considering how much talent they stockpile compared to everyone else. Kansas has two national titles in the last 30 years, Kentucky only has three in the last 30 years, MSU has one. When was the last time UCLA ever won a title? The 70s? Are they still even a blueblood anymore?
You may be right about the other stuff, but I don't think he's underachieving.
ya, he had me at "really good coach". if you mean run and gun and play no D, then ya, he's pretty good at that.
How bout 6 final fours and 3 national championships since ‘03. How’s that for a “really good coach.”
Beilein has to be one of the best at putting kids in the NBA right? besides the kids that could go straight from high school I'd guess his numbers were with the best of them.
UNC puts a lot of kids in the NBA, not really sure what your point is here. Are you surprised when a football recruit chooses Michigan over Michigan state?
I think the point is, North Carolina gets kids that are pretty much locks to get into the Association. Beilein molds his kids into NBA players.
Williams has only had 3 one and dones in his career at UNC.
according to 247, he has had 11 five star guys; 5 in the top 10; in the past 10 years. i'm surprised he has had only 3 one and dones in his career. he should have had more in the last 10 years alone. seems more of an indictment against williams, imo.
I mean he's about to have his fourth and fifth this year. But that doesnt sound like an indictment on Roy Williams, He's won 3 titles. That's pretty good.