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Here is your first major injury of the new season. UNC freshman RB Gio Bernard fell prey to the dreaded torn ACL in his knee and will be out for the season. Bernard will have surgery to repair the torn ligament and obviously take a redshirt. What remains to be seen is whether this is [...] Continue reading Bernard Out For Season See update at the end of the post. ESPN senior college football writer Ivan Maisel set off a brief firestorm among Tar Heel nation when it was widely reported yesterday that he expects “good news for North Carolina on Marvin Austin“. As the story grew, some were even saying that Maisel said Austin was “in [...] Continue reading Maisel’s Marvin Austin Quote: A Cautionary Tale [UPDATED] Scouring the interwebs to bring you things from the past few days that you may or may not have known: From the hardwood: •The NCAA regularly lists Academic Progress Rates (APR) for schools, but for the first time linked APRs to specific coaches. The list of coaches APRs was released this week and who tops [...] Continue reading Weekend News & Notes First of all, a look at the starting position so to speak. The USA Today Coaches Poll was released. UNC was ranked 18th, one of five ACC teams in the rankings. The others were #6 Virginia Tech, #13 Miami, #17 Georgia Tech and #20 Florida St. Note three Coastal Division teams are ranked ahead of [...] Continue reading Notes From First Day Of Practice UNC officially opens practice today for a season filled with promise but also with questions, both on and off the field. The Heels are expected to garner strong consideration for a preseason top-25 ranking after returning almost the entire team from an 8-5 campaign in 2009 that was six points away from being 11-2. But [...] Continue reading Tar Heels Open Camp With Promise, Questions They just missed the food at Sutton’s right? According to ACC Now, the NCAA showed up again at UNC as part of the ongoing investigation. Baddour declined to reveal who was interviewed in the NCAA’s return to campus. On the previous visit, Baddour has said, athletes were interviewed. Wide receiver Greg Little’s father later [...] Continue reading UNC Under Siege Day 21: NCAA Returns To Chapel Hill The ACC’s best recruiting class for 2011, at least so far, just might be in Chapel Hill according to Jamie Newberg of ESPN Recruiting. The Heels have brought in three top-25 classes in Butch Davis’ four years and has eight four-star prospects in those committed for this year. “Few, if any, teams in the ACC [...] Continue reading UNC Assembling an Impressive Recruiting Catch Okay not really and I know, I promised we were done with the Wears but then items like this keep popping up. Robbi Pickeral of the CharNews & Observer did one of those standard profile pieces on Tyler Zeller. It basically went like this. Zeller is working hard both on the court and at an [...] Continue reading Zeller Thought Wears Went Out For Pizza, Never Came Back |
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