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Carolina Home Football Game Day: Top Things To Do

Posted by The Commentators | Sep 21, 2012 | Uncategorized

Excitement is in the air as college football season kicks off around the country. Here in Chapel Hill the energy of the first home game led by a brand new coach builds under Carolina blue skies. For all game day & schedule...

Ban the Chancellor's Box at Kenan Stadium

Posted by Staff | Sep 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

Let’s hope that everyone involved with the search and selection of UNC Chapel Hill’s next chancellor insists that she (hint, hint) or he puts substantial and visible distance between the head university administrator’s office...

Look For A Hundred Passes!

Posted by Staff | Sep 19, 2012 | Uncategorized

When UNC prepared for ECU two years ago, we planned to run the ball as much as possible. It was our belief that the nature of ECU’s offense prevented their defense from preparing adequately for our run game. Offensively...

Your Boys Are Playin' Scared

Posted by The Commentators | Sep 18, 2012 | Uncategorized

And it wasn’t even halftime. In fact, we were only down 22-0 at this point. This observation came from a head shaking, sympathetic UL fan as I rode up an elevator in Papa John’s stadium amidst the Tar Heels’...

Thorp's True Legacy

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 17, 2012 | Uncategorized

For a change, Holden Thorp made a decision that left everyone happy. His detractors who grew since the firing of Butch Davis 14 months ago are happy, and some may be demented enough to think that score has been settled. ...

Greatest Comeback EVER… Almost

Posted by Staff | Sep 17, 2012 | Uncategorized

It was Sept 15, 2012. Not March 2, 1974. This time Walter Davis missed. OK, it would never have supplanted “8 down with 17 seconds to play” regardless. It was not in Carmicheal. It was in a stadium named for a pizza mogul in...

'Go, Romar, Go!'

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 16, 2012 | Art's Angle

Let’s discuss what happened in the first half Saturday at the Papa John’s Pizza Palace in Louisville. Either the Tar Heels were still hung over from their disappointing loss last week at Wake Forest (which by the way got waxed...

The Irish: Nowhere Else To Go

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 14, 2012 | Art's Angle

Sure, it is a boon for the ACC to add fabled Notre Dame as its 15th school, but let’s look beyond the lore of Touchdown Jesus to the reality of the situation. Notre Dame, at least for now, will not be a football member of the...

Louisville More Explosive

Posted by Staff | Sep 13, 2012 | Uncategorized

UNC and Louisville are very different teams from when they played each other last year. The Cards made offensive staff changes in the middle of last season, and of course we are all familiar with the total overhaul at UNC. Our...

Hammer or the Nail

Posted by Staff | Sep 12, 2012 | Uncategorized

My Dad always told me that “adversity introduces a man to himself,” and, for our Tar Heels on Saturday night, that was the case in a good ole rainy clash against ACC foe Wake Forest. The Heels, in my opinion, were...

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