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Message: [QUOTE="perdurabo, post: 2273432, member: 3948"] [URL="https://www.diehards.com/north-carolina/north-carolina-recruiting-earlington-ford"]North Carolina recruiting: Basketball could be key in helping Tar Heels land DE Marcellus Earlington[/URL] The predicament for Roy Williams and the basketball team’s Class of 2018 is an interesting one, to say the least. With just two seniors on scholarship and two players already committed — guard Coby White and point guard/small forward Rechon Black — there isn’t much room to grow. Still, with Black’s next-level position still up in the air, Williams and his staff has still been targeting front court help among this year’s rising seniors. At some point, if the Tar Heels are going to add a third, or even fourth, member to the class, some scholarship math is going to have to be done. But there might be a way for Williams to add a little depth to his front court without costing one of his scholarships courtesy of football coach Larry Fedora. Marcellus Earlington, a 3-star defensive end out of Ramsey, N.J., is a bonafide football prospect, ranking among the top 500 players in the Class of 2018. He’s also a solid basketball player on the AAU circuit and, while football is the sport he’s been recruited for the most, he’s expressed an interest in playing both sports at the next level. A big part of the interest generated toward North Carolina stems from a conversation that Earlington had with Williams about playing basketball. Growing up, Earlington was a North Carolina and Syracuse basketball fan, so Williams has a real presence when it comes to the nation’s No. 17 defensive end. “Just hearing coach Roy Williams tell me I could play both, it was mind-blowing,” Earlington told Dohn. “That definitely was a game-changer. I really love North Carolina, and just hearing his voice, it was very good.” The Tar Heels seem to be the favorite at this point, with Earlington saying they’re “in a great place” and Dohn wrote later in the week that they’re “[URL='http://At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./college/football/recruiting/Article/Midweek-Meanderings-In-The-East-106241653']in the driver’s seat[/URL].” However, it’s still early and he indicated that if Duke or Rutgers were to get more serious about Earlington on the basketball court, it could change things, so you can’t pencil him into the Class of 2018 just yet. [/QUOTE]

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