Duke you suck

why talk about next year when season is not over as far next year goes if everyone for unc i thinks we couid wion the ACC next year i wouid say unc wouid have 20 wins and 8 lost maybe more or maybe leas but 20 wins we can have

 

You've been talking about next year all season...."Wait til May gets back! Wait til May gets back".....well, that's next year.

 

sounds like a Duke fan....Always tryin to counter a Carolina fan...Carolina has recruits comming in, just wait. I think yall forgot who Coach K credits alot of his learning from....

 

Dukie, you remind me of a kid that just got done opening his Christmas presents.

You only received a lump of coal - get over it - Santa isn't real, and he won't be bringing you SQUAT next season.

The Heels will be mired in mediocrity, or worse.

 

well all know that with may in lineup unc couid won the ACC and i was talk about next year when unc was 8-20 even thou im not so happy about heels not makeing the NCAA ho ever im more happy hten last year when heels was 8-20

 

be easy Dukey, you have to realize Carolina can't dominate every year....thats why Dean left...was tired of beating the shit out of Duke

 

that true at some time if sow the games MAy played in them unc played a very good game had may to lineup and the heels will finsh in top 3 in ACC

 

Signing day has come and gone.....you got Terry .... a recruit whose highest ranking is in the 60s.....anything else you land will be the caliber of Sanders or Grant....but hey....I'll keep waiting...and what does Bobby Knight have to do with this? (other than possibly wooing May away)

 

I guess K ought to be about ready to retire then.....6 in a row?

 

How many scholarships does Coach Doherty have to give out over the next couple of years and please elaborate on how a player transferring out of UNC works against the program...if at all.
Philip McCormick, High Point

While it would have been more fun to answer an easier question, such as reciting the full names of every basketball lettermen dating back to 1957 alphabetically, we'll give this one a shot.

The NCAA has in a place a much-discussed rule known as the "5-8 rule." That rule dictates that schools can issue only five scholarships in any given year, and a total of eight scholarships over two years. The first part of that rule, for example, is why David Noel is a walk-on this year. Carolina had already granted five scholarships, so he had to pay his own way this season to avoid going over the "5" portion of the "5-8 rule."

Noel will receive a scholarship next season. So will Reyshawn Terry, who has already signed his letter of intent to play for the Tar Heels. That puts Carolina at seven scholarships over the two-year period, so they could theoretically give out one more.

But "5-8" isn't the only part of the problem, which ties into the second part of your question. NCAA rules restrict Division I teams to 13 men's basketball scholarships. Next season, assuming no more scholarships are granted, the Heels will have 10 players on scholarship (Williams, Scott, and Manuel in the junior class; Felton, May, McCants, Sanders, Grant, and Noel in the sophomore class; Terry in the freshman class). Usually, a team can count on a scholarship or two opening up every season as seniors graduate. But that's where the transfers of Adam Boone and Brian Morrison impact the Heels-the class that would be seniors next year is entirely empty, which means that no new scholarships open after next year.

The crunch, then, is not with next season's recruits, but with the season after that, especially given the current recruiting picture. The bottom line answer to your question (and this isn't going to make complete mathematical sense, so just be aware that there are other recruiting issues that we can't discuss here) is that the coaching staff has two more scholarships to give out over the next two seasons.

Although it wouldn't necessarily impact the Heels, who as shown above have a problem with the 13 total limit, not the 5-8 restriction, there is speculation that the NCAA may eventually get rid of the 5-8 rule, which has served very little of its purpose and is vehemently opposed by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. "At the time it was enacted [August 1, 2001), I don't think our coaches really understood the impact of this rule," says Reggie Minton, the current associate executive director of the NABC and former head coach at the Air Force Academy. "There just wasn't enough fuss being made about it. But once everyone got a feel for what it could do, our membership strongly opposes it.

"There's no other sport at the NCAA level that has limits on the amount of scholarships you can hand out in a two-year period. Basically, our membership just wants to be allowed to manage the 13 scholarships that we're given by the NCAA. A new guy taking a job is the one being hurt. You're almost being held hostage, because you can't make the numbers work."