No. 20: North Carolina
North Carolina's run to an A.C.C. title starts today. Can the offense help carry the load? North Carolina flirted with the Top 25 through Butch Davis’s third season in Chapel Hill, though a frustrating...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End… Maybe
John Blake might be gone, but Butch Davis has more problems to deal with. One can only think, when one hears that John Blake has resigned from his position at U.N.C., that this is too little, too late...
View ArticleMusic City Bowl: U.N.C. vs. Tennessee
How do you handle adversity? Do you hang it up, call it quits, head for the hills? When facing the specter of its worst season in generations, Tennessee rallied around its first-year coach, winning...
View ArticleSpring Storylines: North Carolina
If mistakes had to be made, I don’t believe that North Carolina could have chosen a better season to step outside the lines than 2010: U.N.C. competed with U.S.C., expansion, realignment, the B.C.S....
View ArticleNo. 36: North Carolina
One minute, the college football world was fixated on Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott, who told the masses that the conference would be unleashing a national network — coming soon to a TV near you....
View ArticleSifting Through Rubble in Coral Gables
One problem with numerical rankings is that they don’t provide for varying degrees: we know who’s 1 and who’s 2, but we don’t know the distance between 1 and 2, let alone 1 and 4, for example....
View ArticleThe Year in Review: U.N.C. (7-6, 3-5)
Here’s my guess: Everett Withers needed to win at least 10 games in 2011 to have his status move from interim head coach to North Carolina’s full-time head coach. This is somewhat due to the fact that...
View ArticleThe Nuts-and-Bolts Case Against U.N.C.
It didn’t take years for the N.C.A.A. to issue its ruling in the case of North Carolina, which first came under investigation in the summer of 2010 for allegedly committing a series of rule-breaking...
View ArticleProbation, No Bowl and More for U.N.C.
The description itself is worrisome – it’s a Public Infractions Report, after all – but the news wasn’t all bad for North Carolina. In its summation, the N.C.A.A. gave five reasons why U.N.C. was able...
View ArticleStarting With McGee, Branching Out
If Jeff Long was serious about starting Arkansas’ coaching search immediately after last night’s press conference, it stands to reason that the Razorbacks are in the market for a new head coach in...
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