Is it me or does Marcus Allen always seem lost when the ball is thrown his direction? No idea the ball was right there. SMH already

PITT 34, UNC 24
OCT. 5, 2024
KENAN STADIUM, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
• Carolina is 3-3 overall, 0-2 in the ACC.
• Mack Brown is 110-76-1 as head coach of UNC. Brown is 285-152-1 all-time and is the
winningest active head coach in the FBS.
• A Tar Heel has rushed for at least 100 yards in each of the first six games for the first time
since 1983, the only other time that has happened in UNC football history.
• UNC is the only FBS program with a 100-yard rusher in each of the first six games.
• UNC is 12-6 all-time against Pitt, including 7-2 at Kenan Stadium.
• UNC is 0-2 in the ACC for the first time since 2017.
• UNC has lost three regular-season games in a row for the first time since 2019.
Offense
• Omarion Hampton led the Tar Heels in rushing yards for the fifth time this season, gaining
106 yards on 23 carries.
• Hampton has rushed for at least 100 yards in five of UNC’s six games this season, making
him and Don McCauley the only Tar Heels who have rushed for at least 100 yards in five
games in multiple seasons.
• Hampton scored his 30th touchdown as a Tar Heel and his 28th rushing touchdown, tying
Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice and Amos Lawrence for ninth on UNC’s all-time rushing
touchdown list.
• Hampton passed Justice for ninth on UNC’s all-time rushing list. Justice rushed for 2,634
yards from 1946-1949, while Hampton has 2,669 rushing yards in the last two seasons.
• This was Hampton’s 14th career game with 100 or more rushing yards, tying Natrone Means
for seventh on UNC’s list of games with 100 or more yards.
• Jacolby Criswell was 24 for 45 for 269 passing yards and a touchdown. Criswell’s 48-yard
completion in the fourth quarter was the longest of his career, surpassing a 47-yard
completion against Georgia State in 2021.
• Criswell had a passing touchdown for the fourth straight game.
• Nate McCollum had 10 catches for 128 reception yards. He is the first Tar Heel with 100
reception yards in a game this season. The 128 yards are the most by a Tar Heel since Tez
Walker had 162 against Duke in 2023.
• McCollum’s 10 catches were the most by a Tar Heel since Tez Walker had 11 against Virginia
last season.
• Tight end John Copenhaver caught his third touchdown pass of the season and eighth of his
career.
• JJ Jones surpassed 1,500 career reception yards (1,512).
• Carolina had one player rush for 100 yards, one player pass for 200 yards and one player
with 100 receiving yards for the first time since the Duke game last season.
Defense

• Kaleb Cost’s 84-yard interception return for a touchdown is the seventh-longest
interception return in UNC history and the longest since Brian Walker returned an
interception for 100 yards against San Diego State in 2014.
• Cost’s pick-six is the first by a Tar Heel since Storm Duck had an interception return for a
touchdown against Temple in the 2019 Military Bowl.
• It was UNC’s first defensive touchdown since Trey Morrision returned a fumble for a
touchdown against Duke in 2021.
• It was Cost’s second interception of the season and career (also one against NC Central).
• Amare Campbell tied a career high with eight tackles. Those eight tackles led all Tar Heel
defenders.
Special Teams
• Noah Burnette tied Clint Gwaltney for fourth in field goals at UNC with 43 career field goals.
• Burnette is 43 for 51 on field goal attempts as a Tar Heel, including 9 for 10 this season.
• Burnette tied Thomas Moore for seventh at UNC with 113 PATs.
Opponent
• Pitt’s Desmond Reid made 11 catches for 155 yards. Reid is the first opponent with at least
10 catches since Virginia’s Malik Washington had 12 in 2023. It was the most receiving yards
by an opponent since South Carolina’s Xavier Legette had 178 in 2023.

I’m not an expert and I don’t get paid millions but … on a 4th down pass play. You should have your receiver be PAST the line to gain when they catch the ball or am I watching a different sport ?

Just watched the 18min vid from the start of practice… super fun.

Sure, it was a lot of warm-up full court drills but it shows the players who’re comfortable and adept to push pace:

EC is automatic and oozes confidence.
Ian Jackson is almost as good - super efficient.
RJ looked good giving it up too
And Hubert’s son, Elijah, kept it moving fast too.

Hard not to get excited for the season!

Hubert is up at around 1:45 then the players will be available on the court for about an hour and broken into groups. We get to watch the first 20 minutes of practice.

Jacob and Chelsea will be here, too.

We already have Dixon. I've listed the "warm" candidates from 247 with stats from Rivals and 247. Which of those would you most like to add?

says the almost always revolting but occasionally right Dennis Dodd.

Indiana is not just anither strupid damned basketball school. It is the most useless of all basketball schools that play D1 football: "...the second-worst winning percentage all-time among current Group of Five schools (ninth-worst all time in FBS at .420)."

That school, IU, is now, in Cignetti's first season, 5-0. And UNC has ever aging, vain, preening Mack. IU woke uo and made a real football hire. UNC made a hire that most certainly pleased Sally's
old Chapel Hill ladies groups, as well as the UNC Admin.