Art Chansky

Perhaps the longest fall in Carolina football history has come to a merciful end. The Tar Heels have had bad seasons before, most of them to begin what turned out to successful coaching reigns of Bill Dooley and Mack Brown or the start of troubled tenures for other UNC football CEOs. The season that ended with Saturday’s chippy loss at N.C. State must be considered an aberration, since it was a by-product of the NCAA scandal that damaged recruiting and unprecedented injuries to an already thin squad. Larry Fedora’s mission now is to ramp up recruiting and fix the holes...