Posted onFebruary 2, 2012|Comments Off on A Trip Down Memory Lane: UNC vs UMD Basketball Games From the Past
The UNC Tar Heels will face the Maryland Terrapins on Saturday, February 4th in College Park. Regardless of team rankings, with the support of one of the most rowdy collegiate fan bases out there, the Terps seem to always play well against the Heels in the Comcast Center.
To get you Tar Heel fans fired up for Saturday, here’s a little trip down memory lane from the ACC Vault:
Posted onFebruary 2, 2012|Comments Off on Signing Day 2012 — Success for UNC Coach Fedora and Staff
Watch as head football coach Larry Fedora fields questions during UNC’s 2012 National Signing Day press conference — Fedora’s first signing day since making the move to Chapel Hill less than one month ago. Although the Tar Heel class of 2012 is not as highly ranked as some of the previous UNC classes, under the circumstances, most would agree that Fedora and staff performed admirably in signing a solid class. Twenty-three future Tar Heels faxed their LOI’s to UNC today, and it’s still possible at least one more highly regarded recruit joins the class.
Nine of ten of the top-ranked high school football players in the class of 2012 in the state of North Carolina have chosen to play their college football outside their home state. In the future, Fedora intends to do a better job enticing North Carolina’s most talented players to stay in state for their college careers. He explained, “My job is to put a product on the field that kids in the state get excited about — where a kid realizes, ‘Hey, I can reach every dream and goal I have right here on that field; so there’s no reason for me to leave; so there’s no reason for me to go very far.'”
Fedora and staff only had about three weeks to sign the Class of 2012, but in those weeks, they also managed to evaluate and offer scholarships to a number of outstanding players in the class of 2013. Not surprisingly, many of those players are from North Carolina.
Despite the negative recruiting, the looming sanctions, the program’s year under a lame-duck staff, the current staff’s very short time on the job, and the NCAA ‘investigation’ that never ends, the future of North Carolina football is bright.
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Posted onJanuary 30, 2012|Comments Off on Stilman White Fakes and GT Defender Falls to Floor
Stilman White, Tar Heel freshman backup PG, was not expected to be a big game-time contributor this season. He is still a bit undersized for this level and, of course, inexperienced as well. But I must say that in some ways, White has exceeded my expectations already.
White pushes the ball up the court on the dribble more quickly than superb-passing PG, Kendall Marshall, and better than the previous starting PG, Larry Drew II. White has also taken good care of the basketball thus far in his limited playing time. And although the data sample is still small, it appears that White can be counted on to knock down the open shot reasonably well.
Since Dexter Strickland’s season was cut short due to a torn ACL in his right knee, White has been asked to step into the backup PG role and spell Kendall Marshall when needed. Prior, almost all of White’s minutes came when the Tar Heels already had the outcome of the game in hand. Tar Heels are rooting for the young man to succeed.
Against Georgia Tech in Chapel Hill on January 29th, White had a highlight that he can have fun showing his grandchildren someday. Watch the reaction of the GT defender as White gives a little head fake with an in-out dribble and then drains the 3. Enjoy!
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Posted onJanuary 26, 2012|Comments Off on Julius Randle: North Carolina Blue Is a Beautiful Color
Crafty point guard, Nate Britt, has been a fan of UNC since he watched Raymond Felton and Sean May play as Tar Heels. Felton was the heart and soul of the 2005 National Championship team, and Sean May — a big man with possibly the best set of hands on a basketball player that I’ve ever seen — played spectacularly in the 2005 NCAA tournament.
Julius Randle, now the top player in the 2012 high school class and a versatile big man, is Roy Williams’s top target in that class. Unfortunately, he is also a top target of many of the best programs in the country — including Carolina’s rival, Duke.
Watch and listen as Britt and Randle talk about Carolina basketball:
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