A view from Carolina

[heeliconoclast]

My personal opinion is that Doherty will succeed big-time at SMU. He has all the tools and has learned some valuable lessons re team chemistry and campus politics. But as always time will tell on that.

But if he does not work out for any reason, I am 100% certain the reasons will not involve any of the following: increasing student/community/press interest in the program, or talent evaluation, recruiting effort, creativity, and results. His record at Davidson, Kansas, Notre Dame, Carolina and FAU (four of those with high academic standards for bballers) speaks for itself and shows he is a relentless machine on the recruiting trail, a very accomplished one at that.

In fact, I think he does best at schools with excellent academic credentials like SMU--he knows how to sell that to recruits and parents. Recruiting-wise, my feeling has always been that Doherty is kind of like that scene in the Matrix where they are loading into Neo's brain the ju-jitsu program. Morpheus asks how Neo is doing. And the response is: "He's a machine."

[Blunt Pony]

Anybody can recruit at North Carolina. It will be interesting to see what he can do here.

You know, I here this all the time as it relates to Doherty and it is easy to say when you are a mid major like we are. Do you not think that there are recruiting wars among the power conferences? UNC has to compete with all the big guns not only locally but nationally. They recruit blue chippers but so do all the other biggies. They may be recruiting a different caliber of player, but Doherty should be judged on who they sign. It is all relative isn't it?

[KnuckleStang]

Anybody can recruit at North Carolina. It will be interesting to see what he can do here.

You know, I here this all the time as it relates to Doherty and it is easy to say when you are a mid major like we are. Do you not think that there are recruiting wars among the power conferences? UNC has to compete with all the big guns not only locally but nationally. They recruit blue chippers but so do all the other biggies. They may be recruiting a different caliber of player, but Doherty should be judged on who they sign. It is all relative isn't it?

I take your point, but if you don't think it is easier to recruit good players to Carolina than any other ACC school besides maybe Duke, you're crazy.

[CarMichael]

Doherty recruited better than his predecessor at Carolina and much better than his predecesor at FAU. Anybody can recruit to Carolina, but not necessarily to the expected standard.