What coach is calling out the Tar Heels?

North Carolina is struggling. They have lost six out of seven, the last few coming in blow out fashion. They aren't making the tournament, despite the fact they have a lot of talent on their roster.

That's what youth will do to you.

A lot of people have been theorizing as to why the Heels have struggled so much this season. Back court inexperience, defensive issues, no leadership, one-dimensional big men. You name it, and someone, somewhere, has likely brought it up.

Over the weekend, the Washington Post's Steve Yanda caught up with a coach that had already played UNC this season and got his thoughts on the Heels. Some of the highlights:

They don't run as many things this year, and I think that's out of necessity. I don't think they have as much in their playbook this year, and they lost a lot of people that were really good last year, too, that had been in that system three or four years. Now they're trying to do it with inexperienced kids.

[Ed Davis is] fairly limited offensively to eight feet and in, and so I think people are being very physical with him," the coach said. "And I think the inability of point guards to ge him the ball and the inability of their youth to run the system properly, I think he's gotten better; he's just not stronger.

As their young kids learn their defense, it kind of feeds on each other. They get the game going up and down, get some steals, get some easy baskets, you know, I mean that's a team that's averaging even in league play last year probably 90 points a game. This year they're averaging 70. And some of that is the offense, but some of that is not creating as much on defense. In league play, their opponents have more assists than turnovers. They only have 41 steals in six games. In the past they got a lot more than that.

Nothing too scathing in there, and there is also nothing that we haven't heard before.

That said, I'm still curious as to who it was.

From some of his quotes, you can infer that his team played UNC last season as well, which makes the ACC coaches and the coaches for Michigan State, College of Charleston, and Rutgers (Kentucky and Nevada have changed coaches) possible. I don't know why Yanda would be in touch, right now, with any of the out of conference guys, which leads me to believe that it is a league coach that made the comments.

UNC has played Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest, and NC State. Tony Bennett came to Virginia this season, so he's probably out. My guess would be either Oliver Purnell, Seth Greenberg, or Dino Gaudio. On Saturday, UVa played Wake Forest and Va Tech played Clemson.

Did Yanda get in touch with one of the coaches prior to the Saturday games?