Even legends fall– UNC’s desire opener became a headache at Kenan Stadium.
When Expense Belichick, the designer of six Super Bowl titles with the New England Patriots, tipped onto the area as North Carolina’s new head instructor, expectations were skies high. Tar Heel followers pictured technique, accuracy, and a social shift that would change UNC football into a challenger almost over night.
Reality, nonetheless, had other plans.
Belichick’s very first university head-coaching game– an opener against TCU– rapidly came to be a humbling lesson in just how various college football is from the NFL.
The Tar Heels started promisingly, driving 83 backyards for an opening goal that had Kenan Arena barking. Hope flickered. Then TCU reacted with 41 unanswered points. By the third quarter, followers were streaming out, the scoreboard analysis 48– 14, a defeat that hurt much beyond the numbers.
The phenomenon surrounding the video game just intensified the frustration. Michael Jordan, Lawrence Taylor, and Mia Hamm filled high-end boxes. National broadcasters treated the event like a crowning. Pregame fireworks lit the Carolina skies. However by the third quarter, that spectacle felt ironic– a.