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On The Fast Track

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

The way Larry Fedora likes to play football is the way Roy Williams wants to play basketball: Fast. For the first time in 15 years, or since Mack Brown and Dean Smith ran things, Carolina may have compatible football and...

It Would Be Hog Heaven!

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized

The University of Arkansas has a perfect solution to its problem with philandering football coach Bobby Petrino. Fire him and hire Butch Davis. Think about it. Davis is an Arkansas grad and former player there (until injured...

Unanswered Questions

Posted by Art Chansky | Mar 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

The NCAA’s 38-page report on the Carolina football sanctions is detailed in its outline of violations by the school and the individuals involved (although no names are mentioned; just Student Athlete 1, Student Athlete 2, former...

NCAA Athletes Deserve A Share of the Profits

Posted by Staff | Mar 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

March Madness brings mad money: money for mammoth coaching salaries, huge revenues for television companies, mega-dough to support the lavish lifestyles of the NCAA bigwigs… College football post-season bowl games...

Laughable Loophole

Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 15, 2012 | Uncategorized

Okay, all of those who think it’s okay for Butch Davis to finagle an “administrative” job in the National Football League and keep his full severance from UNC, raise your right hand. Those of you who think Davis is trying to...

Good Chemistry, At Last

Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized

Even as Larry Fedora injects a youthful, wide-eyed energy into Carolina Football not seen here since Mack Brown, the Butch backers and Holden haters continue to view the glass as more than half empty. I ran into such a group...

The Bowl 'System'

Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 30, 2011 | Uncategorized

Many viewers who watched Carolina’s dismal loss to Missouri in the Independence Bowl Monday night – an apt ending to the ugly Butch Davis era – wondered why the Tar Heels even agreed to go to Shreveport, Louisiana, over...

Blue Skies Ahead

Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 8, 2011 | Uncategorized

It still may not seem so to the knuckleheads who hate Holden Thorp, but the Chancellor had a plan that he could finally hatch last July 26, when he decided that Butch Davis and the embarrassment his football program cost UNC had...

The Weekend Watch

Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 5, 2011 | Uncategorized

If you’re a devout Tar Heel and ACC sports fan, who did not succumb to the Saturday sunshine, it turned out to be a helluva weekend watch, beginning with the Carolina-Kentucky tip at high noon and ending with Russell Wilson...

Eras of Imperfection

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 28, 2011 | Uncategorized

As Bubba Cunningham takes over and goes about the process of producing a winning football program we can all be proud of, it brings to mind past UNC coaching regimes and blips along the way that occurred in all of them. The...

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