UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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It's easy to tell which sport at UNC is dominant and gains the most interest. With Hubert there is a passionate debate about whether he is the right coach for the school and whether he should be let go at the end of the year, with Belichick most fans (not all, but most) have already accepted that he's not going to work out and that next season we'll be, at best, no better than this year, yet the relative apathy in the debate compared to basketball is telling.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
It's easy to tell which sport at UNC is dominant and gains the most interest. With Hubert there is a passionate debate about whether he is the right coach for the school and whether he should be let go at the end of the year, with Belichick most fans (not all, but most) have already accepted that he's not going to work out and that next season we'll be, at best, no better than this year, yet the apathy in the debate is telling.
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Like…whatever, man.
 
People on IC, more knowledgeable about college football than me, are making the following observations about our upcoming schedule:

Three teams are are definite losses:

Miami, ND and Louisville. Whatever losses they have are being addressed in the portal.

Every other team is worse than last season:

Clemson - losing lots of talent to the NFL. A Clemson insider told one poster that the Tigers have too many holes on their roster to be filled by the portal given their budget so 2026 is seen as a rebuilding season. Still a likely loss given the game is played at Death Valley.

TCU - tons of losses including their QB.
Pitt - substantial losses with weak portal.
Duke - same and we just learned they've lost their QB.
UVA - same
NCST - same including their rb.

Syracuse - losing record last season.

With all that said, at this point on the calendar:

4 definite losses
3 probable wins (Syracuse, UCONN and ETSU)
Perhaps we can steal two to three wins from the remaining group of 5 (TCU,Pitt,Duke,UVA and State) to have 6 to 7 wins.

Would a 6/7 win season + Mayo Bowl satisfy the fans in yr 2? I say yes if we see enough positives to be optimistic about the future, particularly if some of the victories comes from State/dook/UVA.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
It's easy to tell which sport at UNC is dominant and gains the most interest. With Hubert there is a passionate debate about whether he is the right coach for the school and whether he should be let go at the end of the year, with Belichick most fans (not all, but most) have already accepted that he's not going to work out and that next season we'll be, at best, no better than this year, yet the relative apathy in the debate compared to basketball is telling.
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I agree to a certain extent. But off-season vs. in-season makes a pretty big difference in discussions. Also, when the vast majority of fans are on the same page, there's not going to be nearly as much passionate debate going on.
 
PTOHeel said:
I agree to a certain extent. But off-season vs. in-season makes a pretty big difference in discussions. Also, when the vast majority of fans are on the same page, there's not going to be nearly as much passionate debate going on.
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True, but even during the football season I don't think the debate was as widespread or drew the same level of interest as the arguments over Hubert have. I do think there is a certain apathy about the football program (because of its longstanding mediocrity) that doesn't exist about the basketball program. And it makes sense, given the relative success of the two programs.
 
Ramrouser said:
Would a 6/7 win season + Mayo Bowl satisfy the fans in yr 2? I say yes if we see enough positives to be optimistic about the future, particularly if some of the victories comes from State/dook/UVA.
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I will say it again. @SnoopRob’s dreams of a mayo bath for Bill will never happen. 1-11 is more likely than a Mayo Bowl.
 
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The grim reality with a schedule that difficult and with a roster this mediocre is that we're going to need to see this coaching staff display acumen in game planning, scheming, game management, and discipline that we have yet to see them possess through the 12 games they've been here so far. We're going to be pretty thin and inexperienced on the OL and we're likely going to need to have true freshmen in the regular rotation on the DL and at LB. Not a great combination when playing a schedule like this.

There's 3 games on the schedule we almost certainly cannot win given our roster limitations: Notre Dame, Clemson, and Miami. You could even throw Louisville in there as a probable loss given the work that did in the portal to add to what was already a strong roster. Until we actually beat NC State again and/or until Dave Doeren is no longer their coach, might as well count that one as an L. Virginia's roster likely got even better in the portal coupled with what they retained from this past year's 11-3 ACC runner-up team, and it's on the road. TCU should still be significantly better than us overall even without Josh Hoover. I'm guessing we beat ETSU, UConn, one of @Pitt/@Duke, and maybe Syracuse.
 
Ramrouser said:
People on IC, more knowledgeable about college football than me, are making the following observations about our upcoming schedule:

Three teams are are definite losses:

Miami, ND and Louisville. Whatever losses they have are being addressed in the portal.

Every other team is worse than last season:

Clemson - losing lots of talent to the NFL. A Clemson insider told one poster that the Tigers have too many holes on their roster to be filled by the portal given their budget so 2026 is seen as a rebuilding season. Still a likely loss given the game is played at Death Valley.

TCU - tons of losses including their QB.
Pitt - substantial losses with weak portal.
Duke - same and we just learned they've lost their QB.
UVA - same
NCST - same including their rb.

Syracuse - losing record last season.

With all that said, at this point on the calendar:

4 definite losses
3 probable wins (Syracuse, UCONN and ETSU)
Perhaps we can steal two to three wins from the remaining group of 5 (TCU,Pitt,Duke,UVA and State) to have 6 to 7 wins.

Would a 6/7 win season + Mayo Bowl satisfy the fans in yr 2? I say yes if we see enough positives to be optimistic about the future, particularly if some of the victories comes from State/dook/UVA.
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There is a greater chance of you marrying Elizabeth Warren with Bernie Sanders officiating than there is of us winning 7 football games next year.
 
CFB is all about the QB these days.

Everyone is counting Syracuse in the potential L's, but they get back Steve Angeli as their QB. It was an achilles tendon tear suffered in his win over Clemson, so that could slow him down - or not.

Duke has some guy who redshirted last yr... i'd mark them as easier than teams like ncsu, uva and pitt for this reason.

Yes, we need coaching heroics, but more importantly we need heroics from Billy Edwards or O'neill.
 
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