Before No.18 North Carolina boarded the team plane for Atlanta to play No. 21 LSU, critics nationwide had written the Tar Heels off. Pundits from San Diego to South Beach declared that UNC didn’t stand a chance given the 13 suspensions handed down late last week amidst accusations of cheating and an illegal agent benefit scandal. The Tar Heels headed into Saturday night’s Kick-Off Classic missing the heart and soul of their football team. Starting defensive tackle Marvin Austin,...
Three years removed from winning his first and only BCS National Championship, LSU skipper Les Miles could be entering his last season as head coach of the Tigers. Miles assumed head coaching duties on January 3, 2005, when current Alabama head coach Nick Saban bolted Baton Rouge to try his hand in the NFL. Miles got off to a red-hot start by going 11-2 in his first season as head coach and earned a trip to Atlanta to represent...
North Carolina’s depth chart at RB shrunk this past Saturday. During the Tar Heels’ 19-6 victory over Duke, starting RB Shaun Draughn fractured his left shoulder blade on the first play of scrimmage and will be out for the remainder of the 2009 season. The junior was 7th in rushing in the ACC averaging 63.0 yard/game. He was the team leader in rushing amassing 567 yards on 124 carries in nine games. In his place, RB Ryan Houston will...
There was some hitting on and off the field at UNC last month. Donte Paige-Moss, UNC’s highly touted recruit, was arrested last month for punching fellow teammate Hunter Furr during a dorm room altercation. Paige-Moss was charged with simple misdemeanor assault. Furr was treated at a Chapel Hill hospital the next day for injuries sustained during the fracas. Tar Heel coach Butch Davis has been pretty secretive about how he plans on handling the situation by saying, “We’ve talked about...
