UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

[1moretimeagain]

I wonder if Beau Atkinson will go back to the portal. He played zero snaps against Michigan and was below 20 snaps in each of last 6 games.

 

[Peppers49]

He definitely had a couple of outstanding performances; he also lost to d00k who was 0-5 in the ACC.

That loss was brutal. Isn’t that also the game where we fucked up their visitor’s locker room or something too that added insult to injury?

 

[akillesheel]

Jimmy & Joes > X & O's. Coaches can set the floor, but players set the ceiling. 4 wins is an ugly floor, but a remotely decent QB on this team would've changed that. We're all familiar with mediocrity and poor seasons, now we need cash if we want more.
(I think BB is famous for saying that character sets the ceiling... but he's referring to players alone and not including coaching impact)

We had something around the 40th-most talented roster in the country this year and about the 100th best team. Now we're paying for the 5th-best recruiting class, getting the 25th-best, and expecting what, the 75th-best team? Does that seem kosher to you?

And I also don't appreciate whitewashing this season as just another "mediocrity" or "poor season." every other season this program has had that was even close to as bad within my lifetime got coaches fired.

 

[1moretimeagain]

That loss was brutal. Isn’t that also the game where we fucked up their visitor’s locker room or something too that added insult to injury?

Not sure if it’s what you’re referring to, but we won the game in which we also refreshed the Wallace Wade visitors locker room with a coat of paint.

 

[heel79]

We had something around the 40th-most talented roster in the country this year and about the 100th best team. Now we're paying for the 5th-best recruiting class, getting the 25th-best, and expecting what, the 75th-best team? Does that seem kosher to you?

And I also don't appreciate whitewashing this season as just another "mediocrity" or "poor season." every other season this program has had that was even close to as bad within my lifetime got coaches fired.

Fedora didn't get fired after 2017. That was I think his sixth year.

 

[Zoo_View]

Not sure if it’s what you’re referring to, but we won the game in which we also refreshed the Wallace Wade visitors locker room with a coat of paint.

2014 was when we gave the d00k visitor’s locker room a badly needed paint job.

d00k had won in 2012 and 2013. The Bell had been away from home for a while.

 

[heel79]

Bunting was 8-5, 3-9, 2-10, 6-6, 5-6 before he got fire.

Oh yes. Mack was 1-10, 1-10

 

[Ramrouser]

Agreed. I'll say that FSU game performance was legendary though.

And Pitt.

 

[GoHeelsweeeehoooo]

I do like the work the social media team at UNC did - although I wonder how many of the commitments have ever seen a rotary phone

 

[mpaer]

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We done good

 

[He's Not Here]

He definitely had a couple of outstanding performances; he also lost to d00k who was 0-5 in the ACC.

Wasn’t the season that Mack Hollins got hurt? Until he got hurt, I don’t think anyone realized how the entire offense depended on his ability to stretch the defense.

 

[Zoo_View]

Wasn’t the season that Mack Hollins got hurt? Until he got hurt, I don’t think anyone realized how the entire offense depended on his ability to stretch the defense.

Yes.

And, losing Mack was damaging as hell to the offense (and special teams). Mack could go deep on anyone.

 

[gregh1]

Wasn’t the season that Mack Hollins got hurt? Until he got hurt, I don’t think anyone realized how the entire offense depended on his ability to stretch the defense.

And Caleb Peterson

 

[gregh1]

We had something around the 40th-most talented roster in the country this year and about the 100th best team. Now we're paying for the 5th-best recruiting class, getting the 25th-best, and expecting what, the 75th-best team? Does that seem kosher to you?

And I also don't appreciate whitewashing this season as just another "mediocrity" or "poor season." every other season this program has had that was even close to as bad within my lifetime got coaches fired.

40th? Source?

Eta: yes, this is worse than mediocre, but we've had similarly awful results-wise in the past just with different expectations.

 

[nycfan]

Bunting was 8-5, 3-9, 2-10, 6-6, 5-6 before he got fire.

Oh yes. Mack was 1-10, 1-10

I was a student for those two Mack years.

On the plus side, when I called him from the DTH, he called back!

 

[Milk and Cookies]

40th? Source?

Eta: yes, this is worse than mediocre, but we've had similarly awful results-wise in the past just with different expectations.

They may be talking about the 247 Team Talent Rankings that had UNC 31st coming into the season, to go along with a Team Portal ranking of 9th.

 

[heel79]

ESPN has class ranked 12th.

 

[gregh1]

They may be talking about the 247 Team Talent Rankings that had UNC 31st coming into the season, to go along with a Team Portal ranking of 9th.

And those are meaningless, invalid, misguiding because they're based on HS rankings rather than portal rankings which are mostly lower and our team was largely dependent on portal players. @akillesheel

 

[Peppers49]

And those are meaningless, invalid, misguiding because they're based on HS rankings rather than portal rankings which are mostly lower and our team was largely dependent on portal players. @akillesheel

Just because they aren’t perfect doesn’t mean they’re completely meaningless or invalid lol. They can still give you a ballpark idea of a team’s talent level as long as you realize the limitations.

 

[CFordUNC]

UNC was objectively more talented than: Charlotte, Richmond, UCF, Syracuse, Stanford, and Wake Forest this year. I don’t know how it could be argued otherwise. I would personally argue that we were overall more talented than Cal, Virginia, Duke, and NC State, or at the very least about as talented as those teams, and certainly not *less* talented than any of them, but each of them had quarterback play that was so far and away better than ours. We were not more talented than Clemson and TCU.

UNC going 4-8 against this schedule is arguably the biggest underachievement in program history. A *bad* UNC team should have been 6-6 against it. To go 4-8 is damn near unforgivable.