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And What is Bunting’s Most Daunting Problem?

According to David Glenn it is the attrition of personnel for various reasons, some of them not so good.

Bunting basically has a hole in the middle of his program. He has lost so many players via attrition, for so many different reasons, that he finds himself playing catch-up in terms of personnel on an annual [...]

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Tale of Two Coaches

“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times? Stupid monkey!” -Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons

Remember a few weeks ago before the season even started and every day NC State’s Chuck Amato got a question about the hot seat? The Sunday before the season started the N&O devoted a huge article [...]

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The John Bunting Watch

So now it begins.

John Bunting, with all the other problems he has, also fell prey to one of the classic football blunders. Never lose big going into a bye week. Losing big before a bye means you are stuck talking about how bad your team was and in this case fielding questions about [...]

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The Case Against John Bunting

It looks like I am a little late to the party. Caulton Tudor fired the first salvo in the “Fire John Bunting” war this morning. I purposely have not read it because I was in the middle of writing my own manifesto against the beleagured Tar Heel coach. I had originally planned to wait [...]

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ACC Football Week #4: Review

Thursday, September 21st

Georgia Tech 24 Virginia 7

The only question I had after this game is why does Calvin Johnson see the ball so little when he is so obviously a great receiver.  Granted he got six catches for 165 yards but in the two previous games against weaker opponents(and I use that term loosely where [...]

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UNC at Clemson: That Was Embarassing.

Clemson 52 UNC 7.

I really am speechless.  Not that I expected to win but I expected UNC to go out and be somewhat comptetive.  It was a humiliation.  Clemson was stopped exactly three times on offense.  Once by an interception, once by the end of the half, and a turnover on downs in the fourth [...]

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UNC at Clemson

Where: Memorial Stadium aka “Death Valley” Clemson, SC
When: Saturday, September 23rd, 12:00 PM
TV: Lincoln Financial Network
Records: UNC 1-2, 0-1 in the ACC Clemson 2-1, 1-1 in the ACC

Oh where to begin. I almost did this preview in poetry form in honor of former UNC basketball player Rashad McCants but decided that would be nearly [...]

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