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"Now on the cusp of ACC play, the Tar Heel offense is ranked 20th in the country in scoring offense at 42.7 points a game and 70th in scoring defense at 28. The defense has played well in stretches in three games; it’s flitted about in ineptness during chunks of all three as well. “I have lot of conflict on who we are right now,” Gene Chizik said. "
“I promise you there’s half a football team in there right now that is really disappointed,” Fedora said. “No matter that I tell them, ‘Hey, we won a football game and we’ll grow and learn.’ There’s a lot of guys in there right now that are disappointed in how they played.”
It won’t be a pleasant week on one side the ball. Already the Tar Heels are reeling along the line with various problems that have bumped Dajaun Drennon, Tyler Powell, Nazair Jones and Tomon Foxout of the lineup for one game or more. They are working newcomers Jonathan Smith, Jason Strowbridge, Patrice Rene, Myles Dorn, Allen Cater and Ross into the mix. Cole Holcomb has seen plenty of special teams play but is new in the weakside linebacker slot.
Saturday on a hot afternoon in Kenan Stadium that had more than one player taking nausea medication on the sidelines, the Dukes brought an offense averaging 68 points a game and treated the Tar Heels if they were Central Connecticut State. They engineered ball-control drives of nine plays and 11 plays for scores to open the game and then, just as Illinois did one week ago, caught Carolina in a busted assignment with a scoring pass to a running back on a wheel route—a “200-year-old mistake,” as Chizik said of a play that has been rehearsed repeatedly during fall camp.
“I don’t like looking at mediocrity, what we’re putting on the field now,” Chizik said. “I’m not pulling up, not letting up, not accepting any of this mediocre defense. We can step up or it will be a long season. I’m not going to keep looking at it.
“You produce as a player or you’re just taking up space. I don’t want to use, ‘Oh, we’re young at linebacker’ or anything like that. I don’t want to hear it. Your job in college is to go out and produce, that’s what you do when you get on the field. A handful of guys are productive, a majority are below average in my opinion.”
"Now on the cusp of ACC play, the Tar Heel offense is ranked 20th in the country in scoring offense at 42.7 points a game and 70th in scoring defense at 28. The defense has played well in stretches in three games; it’s flitted about in ineptness during chunks of all three as well. “I have lot of conflict on who we are right now,” Gene Chizik said. "
“I promise you there’s half a football team in there right now that is really disappointed,” Fedora said. “No matter that I tell them, ‘Hey, we won a football game and we’ll grow and learn.’ There’s a lot of guys in there right now that are disappointed in how they played.”
It won’t be a pleasant week on one side the ball. Already the Tar Heels are reeling along the line with various problems that have bumped Dajaun Drennon, Tyler Powell, Nazair Jones and Tomon Foxout of the lineup for one game or more. They are working newcomers Jonathan Smith, Jason Strowbridge, Patrice Rene, Myles Dorn, Allen Cater and Ross into the mix. Cole Holcomb has seen plenty of special teams play but is new in the weakside linebacker slot.
Saturday on a hot afternoon in Kenan Stadium that had more than one player taking nausea medication on the sidelines, the Dukes brought an offense averaging 68 points a game and treated the Tar Heels if they were Central Connecticut State. They engineered ball-control drives of nine plays and 11 plays for scores to open the game and then, just as Illinois did one week ago, caught Carolina in a busted assignment with a scoring pass to a running back on a wheel route—a “200-year-old mistake,” as Chizik said of a play that has been rehearsed repeatedly during fall camp.
“I don’t like looking at mediocrity, what we’re putting on the field now,” Chizik said. “I’m not pulling up, not letting up, not accepting any of this mediocre defense. We can step up or it will be a long season. I’m not going to keep looking at it.
“You produce as a player or you’re just taking up space. I don’t want to use, ‘Oh, we’re young at linebacker’ or anything like that. I don’t want to hear it. Your job in college is to go out and produce, that’s what you do when you get on the field. A handful of guys are productive, a majority are below average in my opinion.”
