by Lee Pace, GoHeels.com
CHAPEL HILL-Carolina opens spring football practice Sunday with decidedly different missions in three phases of a team coming off a 6-7 mark in 2014. Offense: Rev up the tempo, get stronger upfront, be more physical. Defense: Start from scratch with a new coaching staff and different scheme. Kicking game: Find a reliable punter and place-kicker and juice a return game that was largely ineffectual in 2014.
And do so against a backdrop of that bitter finish to 2014 with lopsided losses to N.C. State in the regular season finale and to Rutgers in the Detroit bowl game.
"Those losses proved to everyone on the team they are not good enough to have spots solidified when spring comes around," says receiver Mack Hollins. "No one can quit working. Everyone has to earn his job for next fall. We have to live with that loss to State the whole 365. They got the upper hand and that's something we have to change. We're hungry, that's for sure."
The Tar Heels will be without quarterback Quinshad Davis, who is rehabbing a leg that was broken in the bowl game.
GOHEELS!
CHAPEL HILL-Carolina opens spring football practice Sunday with decidedly different missions in three phases of a team coming off a 6-7 mark in 2014. Offense: Rev up the tempo, get stronger upfront, be more physical. Defense: Start from scratch with a new coaching staff and different scheme. Kicking game: Find a reliable punter and place-kicker and juice a return game that was largely ineffectual in 2014.
And do so against a backdrop of that bitter finish to 2014 with lopsided losses to N.C. State in the regular season finale and to Rutgers in the Detroit bowl game.
"Those losses proved to everyone on the team they are not good enough to have spots solidified when spring comes around," says receiver Mack Hollins. "No one can quit working. Everyone has to earn his job for next fall. We have to live with that loss to State the whole 365. They got the upper hand and that's something we have to change. We're hungry, that's for sure."
The Tar Heels will be without quarterback Quinshad Davis, who is rehabbing a leg that was broken in the bowl game.
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