If you don’t read Every Day Should Be Saturday then you are missing out on one of the best college football blogs there is in these here parts of the blogosphere. Fellow Tar Heel blogger Mike White of Tar Heel Mania fame, who I readily admit does a better job with the football than I do, was featured at EDSBS. Mike discusses the young gridiron Heels who along with Butch Davis are the real candidates of Hope and Change during this election year, especially if you are talking about football in Chapel Hill. Outside of that the only weapons of mass destruction Butch Davis knows anything about are the ones named Hakeem Nicks and Greg Little who will hopefully wipe whole opposing defenses off the field with a single blast this fall.
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Season: 1983-84
Record: 28-3 overall, 14-0 ACC(1st place)
ACC Tournament: Lost in semifinals to Duke
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Indiana in the Sweet Sixteen
Roster: Brad Daugherty, Matt Doherty, Cecil Exum, Steve Hale, Michael Jordan, Timo Makkonen, Cliff Morris, Sam Perkins, Buzz Peterson, Dave Popson, Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf.
Source: UNC Media Guide
The blog The Athlist posted a YouTube list called 20 Ways To Die While Dunking A Basketball. It is a fairly humorous set of videos but the best one is #20:
20. Being a Duke basketball player (Greg Paulus) and flopping. If the reDEEM team makes one flop in their Olympic run, I will refuse to watch again. We’re Americans and we jump OVER floppers (i.e., Vince Carter in the 2000 Olympics). The only thing more dangerous than a horrible athlete coming up with creative ways to reach the rim is the horrible athlete throwing his body in front of an airborne opponent. That’s right Duke, while the other 19 dunk attempts ended horribly, nothing is more embarrassing than a no-called flop.
Well said. Now I will publish this post and resist the urge to post Danny Green’s dunk again.
Season: 1986-87
Record: 32-4 overall, 14-0 ACC(1st place)
ACC Tournament: Lost in finals to NC State and I am still not over that one either.
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Syracuse in the Elite Eight
Roster: Steve Bucknall, Jeff Denny, Marty Hensley, Curtis Hunter, Rodney Hyatt, Jeff Lebo, Michael Norwood, Dave Popson, J.R. Reid, Kenny Smith, Ranzino Smith, Scott Williams, Joe Wolf.
Source: UNC Media Guide
Season: 1996-97
Record: 28-7 overall, 11-5 ACC(2nd place tie)
ACC Tournament: Won Championship
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Arizona in the Final Four
Roster: Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Vasco Evtimov, Brad Frederick, Antawn Jamison, Charlie McNairy, Makhtar Ndiaye, Terrence Newby, Ademola Okulaja, Ryan Sullivan, Webb Tyndall, Shammond Williams, Serge Zwikker.
Source: UNC Media Guide
NIKE announced that they were pulling three prints ads for their new Hyperdunk shoes because images of opposing players catching a face full of crotch was said to play “off some viewers’ homophobia”
Really? Who knew. Does that line of thinking apply to this?
Season: 1990-91
Record: 29-6 overall, 10-4 ACC(2nd place)
ACC Tournament: Won Championship
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Kansas in the Final Four
Roster: Scott Cherry, Pete Chilcutt, Hubert Davis, Rick Fox, Kenny Harris, George Lynch, Eric Montross, Derrick Phelps, Brian Reese, King Rice, Henrik Rodl, Clifford Rozier, Kevin Salvadori, Pat Sullivan, Matt Wenstrom.
Source: UNC Media Guide
Every Friday, I do a little housekeeping and highlight some items out there in the media from the previous week.
Season: 2006-07
Record: 31-7 overall, 11-5 ACC(1st place tie)
ACC Tournament: Won Championship
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Georgetown in the Elite Eight after leading by 10 with six minutes left and no I am still not over it.
Roster: Dewey Burke, Mike Copeland, Wayne Ellington, Bobby Frasor, Marcus Ginyard, Danny Green, Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson, Wes Miller, Alex Stepheson, Reyshawn Terry, Quentin Thomas, Deon Thompson, Surry Wood, Brandan Wright.
Source: UNC Media Guide
UPDATE: So the App State blog linked below responded to my reasons saying it “They all boil down to - “App State might win.” Wow, I wish I had thought of that I could have saved myself the time I spent actually typing the ones I did.
I am not sure how you get that from reason #3, maybe they care to explain.
Reason #2 has a hint of that but in terms of this present season and how scheduling is done, there is no way UNC or any other BCS school would schedule a team like App State, with all of the local pressures, for their fourth non-conference game when there are three tough non-conference games on the schedule already. It just doesn’t happen and that is more about the rest of the schedule than it is App State.
Reason #1 is the only one that hints strongly at the “App State might win” logic but that feeds into the larger fact that UNC gains nothing from playing them. UNC does not get extra points for beating the three time defending I-AA champs and stands to lose a great deal should they lose. App State on the other hand benefits either way so when it came down to it, as it pertains to 2008, scheduling App State was not going to happen. As I said in the original post, App State beating Michigan made them radiocative to a majority of I-A teams the same way Davison is in basketball along with other mid-majors. The difference here is even greater than Davidson because there is an actual division between the level UNC plays at and the one App State has ruled for three years. Losing to a I-AA school is nothing short of humiliating regardless of how good that team is which is odd because in many ways App State gets respected and disrespected all at the same time.
Also, tarryheel at 850 pointed out that UNC’s final slot was for the first week of the season and App State already had LSU on the schedule so count the lack of a mutually open date as another reason why it did not happen.
Original post after the jump.
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