"If he is looking for PT, there is no better place to play his college basketball at The Ohio State University"
Really?
We have 5 starters back, albeit not exactly the 1984 Tarheels.
This is an issue. We need help badly but recruits/tranny's looking for the path of least resistance will take heed.
Our program is showing all the signs trouble and I don't think Thad will be able to fix it.
He has earned enough goodwill to try but I'm not optimistic.
The 3 kids that transferred last week were the 3 of the 4 kids that played with motors and intensity.
So this "cultural" fix notion is gibberish.
This program has no momentum, zero buzz among top recruits and near historically low fan interest.
It would be nice if Thad gave a state of the union address to the public but in a week nobody will care and we won't hear anything until October.
SideBar: I'm opposed to throwing the kids under the bus. These kids were the grinders, Thad recruited them and now there is notion that we should be glad there gone.
Giddens will end up at a program better then ours, Granderson already has and I would expect Harris to end up at some place like X.
Sidebar2: I'm in the camp that we need to teak the staff and S&C program but in reality attracting high calibur assistants is an issue given Thad's long term forecast.
And I have always thought that S&C is a function of how much credence/emphasis the HC places in it.
When Mick was ND their fan base thought he blew goats.
But Urban has made it clear how important it is.
The culture differences between or fb and hoops programs could not be more stark.