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Yeah, it's crazy how thin we are at CB given the resources we've spent in relatively recent years. I guess that happens when your top 10 pick is made of porcelain and your 2nd rounder pops an Achilles. Everyone is thin at CB if you take way both of their outside starters.

If Wilcher is that deluded then it's addition by subtraction IMO. These guys have to understand that 6'4" combo guards are a dime a dozen in the NBA. And another dose of reality... "combo guard" is just a nice way of saying "undersized SG". Again, a dime a dozen in the NBA. Wilcher is ranked what? In the mid-30s? How many guys ranked in the mid-30s are OAD? Hell, for that matter, how many guys ranked in the mid-30s ever make an NBA roster? I get it. Virtually every 4 and 5 star recruit thinks he's a future NBA or NFL player but the reality is that most of those guys won't play in the NBA. At least with basketball there's ample international opportunities as well. A mid-30s ranked 6'4" "combo guard" thinks he's a surefire OADer? Okay. Bye.

Dalton was always an insurance policy and vet mentorship. For the future, Corral outright winning the backup job would absolutely be for the best.

He became the starting QB as soon as we traded up to #1 overall and made the decision to draft him. You don't make a trade like that for a guy to sit and develop.

I'll take your word for it but from the outside looking in it definitely doesn't see better maybe even more specifically on the youth side. When I was a kid it was ballers only. There weren't a whole lot of travel teams per area and the kids on those teams could PLAY. These days there's a spot available for anyone whose parents will write that check.

I mean, Wilcher decommitted just a couple of days after Cadeau reclassified. It'd be a helluva coincidence for the prior event not to have significantly impacted the latter event.

I don't think you were understanding what I was saying. I'm saying the rise of AAU ball increases the amount of pandering and special treatment of these kids with elite talent. The individual teams and tournaments are falling over themselves trying to secure the best talent.

I'm not begging to sign Hopkins but the arguments that we shouldn't because it'll hamper our current WRs' development or hamper our ability to spend on D just doesn't make any sense. We heavily relied on the development of KB and Funchess while spending our asses off on D during Cam's career and the end result was that Cam never played with a high level NFL WR outside of Smitty early in his career.

What's that gonna do for the young QB we just mortgaged the future of the franchise on to trade up to #1 overall to draft?

I honestly don't like the new number policy. One of the things I preferred about the NFL vs. college was the jersey numbers by position group. It just made the game easier to follow IMO. It's not a big deal but I did prefer the old way.

If the likelihood of getting caught is practically zero it doesn't really matter. The likelihood of getting caught would be practically zero. You'd need an IRS audit to prove your case.

Ultimately I agree. Be excited! After having ridden a milquetoast merry-go-round of cast off vet QBs we have a #1 overall pick QB to get excited about! The last time we had one of those he worked out pretty well and it led us to the best stretch of football in Panthers' history. Plus a new coaching staff chockful of NFL experience after being led by a band of morons under Matt Rhule. Am I concerned about Bryce Young being the size of a middle school QB? Hell yeah I am. Anyone with two brain cells to run together is. You'd never get the Panthers to admit it but they are too. You can bet your ass they spent countless hours having heated debates about it. At the end of the day, the Panthers thought he was worth jumping up to #1 to go get him and we did. That's exciting. If you're not more excited now than you have been in years then I don't know what to tell you.

Watch a game on the ACC Network which is a LOT of games these days. Used to be practically every UNC and duke game was nationally televised on a major network. Look at the quality of the advertisers. It's says everything. It's late night TV infomercial level bullshit being advertised. Viewership numbers must be absolutely AWFUL if that's the level of advertisers you can attract. It's an absolutely awful look. Certainly feels like college basketball is currently trending to end up somewhere a lot closer to college baseball than college football.

That's my point. It's declining and the decline is likely to just intensify. I expect the NBA to emphasize the G League more and more. I don't know what you mean by "not go anywhere". Yeah, college basketball is going to continue to exist but it's already nowhere close to what it used to be and it's trending straight down. I mean, college baseball exists but does anyone actually care?

I don't think it's going away by any means but I do expect it to continue to decline in popularity and relevance. So called "basketball schools" are gone. Basketball is an an after thought to football. The schools that haven't already figured that out are either behind the curve or simply know they don't have the resources to compete in football given the larger costs involved.

In theory your cap per year idea would make sense but the policing of it would be practically impossible given the sheer number of schools and players.

Football will be fine. The game is booming. College basketball had been in decline for decades now and this is only going to speed that decline up.

A lot of truth to this and honestly it's only gotten exponentially worse with the rise of AAU ball and what basically amounts to diploma mill high schools that focus on developing these kids primarily as athletes first to get them D1 scholarships and hopefully provide a pathway to professional sports. But the really is that most 4 and 5 star recruits still won't ultimately play professional sports.

Yikes. But based on our TE production (or rather lack there of) under Rhule what he's saying certainly makes sense. I really hope it turns out that we have significantly more talent on this roster than we thought simply simply through competent coaching.

It's true. They're going to have to find an answer to this or it's gonna start hurting their bottom line as fans get turned off and start tuning out. College basketball is already a shadow of what it used to be anyway. Growing up in NC in the '80s and '90s Tobacco Road basketball dominated this state in terms of sports fandom.

Good for the kids in the short term with the NIL $$$. Not sure if it's good for them in the long run though. Kids are just going to jump to other teams instead of hunkering down and actually working on their game to earn PT. The elite kids who were always going to be NBA bound will be fine. But the guys who end up developing from say top 50 type recruits to legit NBA prospects are probably more likely to be hurt by the current environment. Basically guys like Simeon Wilcher.

This is just the current landscape of college sports. I guess he didn't expect Cadeau to reclassify even though it was pretty widely expected. Watch him end up at St. John's. Pitino has been chirping in his ear ever since taking that job.

Well, so much for all that purse clutching and hand wringing about Saudi blood money... Man, that sucks for all the guys who didn't take that LIV bag of cash. Turned out that there was zero downside to it. They got their bag and now they're right back on the PGA with a lot more money in the bank. Well played sirs. Loyalty to the PGA Tour ended up being worth exactly $0.00. There's gonna be a lot of your pros PISSED about this and I don't blame them. They were basically being told that anyone that took the LIV bag was basically going to be ostracized from the Tour forever. Wonder how many will speak up?

Today is the first day that kitty has drank milk out of a bowl. Thank goodness. I'm really burning out on the bottle feeding.

We have exactly one WR on the roster with proven high level NFL production and he's five years past his prime. Do you expect to have a great backup RB? Backups are backups for a reason. If your #1 concern is your backup RB you're probably about to run roughshod over the league. But our #1 concern is absolutely our lack of proven receiver production.