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Release: 10/26/2016
By Jeff Greenberg
It’s a Saturday evening in Chapel Hill. Kenan Stadium has emptied out, and there is a dwindling number of staff exiting the football center. I find myself sitting with family and friends around a couch and chairs watching some college football on the big screen in front of us. We’re recapping the game we just witnessed and sharing stories like most families do when they gather together in their living rooms. Except, we’re not in the living room, and I’m not with my family. The room we’re in is actually the head coach’s office at the University of North Carolina; and the kind folks I’m visiting with would be the family and friends of head coach Larry Fedora. They’re taking advantage of some time to catch up with each other as we wait for coach Fedora to finish the last postgame obligations he has to handle as the head coach. It was at this moment I began thinking about the last three days I had just spent with the Tar Heel football program.
Saturday is like a holiday to college football fans. Delicious grill smoke fills the air of the tailgate lots. Sports bars fill up with people wearing the shirts and hats of the favorite teams. They’re ready to cheer on their teams. They’re ready to yell when things don’t go their way. And they’re ready to put their arm-chair quarterback hats on when they think they could do better than the coaches leading their favorite team. I wonder if they ever think about what it takes for those coaches to get their favorite team to the kick-off on Saturday. The only way to know for sure is to find out firsthand. I decided to find out for myself and go look behind the curtain of coach Fedora’s football program as he and his staff prepare for their first home game.
Release: 10/26/2016
By Jeff Greenberg
It’s a Saturday evening in Chapel Hill. Kenan Stadium has emptied out, and there is a dwindling number of staff exiting the football center. I find myself sitting with family and friends around a couch and chairs watching some college football on the big screen in front of us. We’re recapping the game we just witnessed and sharing stories like most families do when they gather together in their living rooms. Except, we’re not in the living room, and I’m not with my family. The room we’re in is actually the head coach’s office at the University of North Carolina; and the kind folks I’m visiting with would be the family and friends of head coach Larry Fedora. They’re taking advantage of some time to catch up with each other as we wait for coach Fedora to finish the last postgame obligations he has to handle as the head coach. It was at this moment I began thinking about the last three days I had just spent with the Tar Heel football program.
Saturday is like a holiday to college football fans. Delicious grill smoke fills the air of the tailgate lots. Sports bars fill up with people wearing the shirts and hats of the favorite teams. They’re ready to cheer on their teams. They’re ready to yell when things don’t go their way. And they’re ready to put their arm-chair quarterback hats on when they think they could do better than the coaches leading their favorite team. I wonder if they ever think about what it takes for those coaches to get their favorite team to the kick-off on Saturday. The only way to know for sure is to find out firsthand. I decided to find out for myself and go look behind the curtain of coach Fedora’s football program as he and his staff prepare for their first home game.
