Ordinarily, August is a pretty busy recruiting month, because of the subset of high schoolers who want to have their decision made before the school year starts and they’re distracted by school — especially for football, whose season is about to start as school starts. But this year, there’s enough distraction that this isn’t necessarily the case. UNC’s just about done with the 2021 football class, apparently, and its basketball targets all seem to be happy to take their time at least into the fall. But let’s get into what we do know:

Football:

• After the NCHSAA’s announcement that high school football will be delayed until at least February of next year, we started seeing a wave of UNC’s 2021 class saying they’d be enrolling early despite not being able to play their senior seasons.