The UNC football team had one of its best seasons ever in 2015, rattling off 11 straight wins on its way to a surprise ACC Coastal Division title and finishing among the nation’s top 15. Is this a sign of things to come? Has Tar Heel football finally turned the corner? Will UNC become a perennial national contender? Or was 2015 just a one-time brush with greatness?
Deborah Stroman is a sports commentator and a professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Drawing lessons from regularly-successful programs like Clemson and Alabama, she argues that Carolina will become a perennial contender only when the entire community commits to it – not just UNC, but also Chapel Hill (and Chapel Hillians). Such a commitment will require “sacrifice,” she says.
Is it worth it? How badly do we want UNC to reach the same heights as Clemson or Florida State? How can we ensure that a commitment to success will actually produce success? (Rutgers made such a commitment a decade ago, but got almost no results.) And how can we make that “sacrifice” without losing our academic greatness? (It can be done – Stanford, for instance, routinely balances academic and athletic success – but it’s a difficult task.)
Deborah Stroman discussed those questions this week with WCHL’s Aaron Keck.
No actual football program gives up 645 yards rushing IN ONE GAME..
UNC was at the next level with butch Davis when they go in trouble.. for what all the other schools at “the next level” do… cam fedora get them there? Maybe will need huge defensive improvements.. will UNC get in trouble again if they get to that level? Probably