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By Lee Pace, GoHeels.com
Carolina Coach Larry Fedora was posed a question Thursday at the Raleigh Sports Club that assumed Mitch Trubisky would be the starting quarterback for the 2016 Tar Heels. “I don't know who told you Mitch is our starter,” Fedora answered. “He may be. He has to earn it.”
Told of the exchange less than an hour later, Trubisky smiled and shrugged.
“That’s Coach, he’ll keep you grounded all the time,” Trubisky said. “That’s how he operates. I know that. For him saying that just gives me a heads up that I need to come in to work during spring ball and show him I am the guy, let him and the coaches make the decision after that. I know what I have to do this spring.”
Toward that end, Trubisky took the field Sunday with his Tar Heel teammates for the first day of spring practice. It was a sunny but chilly day and at least there was no snow on the perimeter of the Navy Field practice complex like there was 52 weeks ago. Absent were a half dozen Tar Heels whose eligibility expired but ready to get even better is a nucleus of juniors and sophomores from last year’s 11-3 team that won the ACC Coastal Division title. The Tar Heels will practice again Tuesday and Thursday and then break for campus-wide spring break.
“I’m definitely excited,” says Trubisky, a rising junior. “We have so much talent coming back, the sky’s the limit for this team. We want to build off last year. We’ll look at what went well, look at the mistakes we made, try to make this season even better. That’s the goal—to go places we haven’t been before, to do something special.”
By Lee Pace, GoHeels.com
Carolina Coach Larry Fedora was posed a question Thursday at the Raleigh Sports Club that assumed Mitch Trubisky would be the starting quarterback for the 2016 Tar Heels. “I don't know who told you Mitch is our starter,” Fedora answered. “He may be. He has to earn it.”
Told of the exchange less than an hour later, Trubisky smiled and shrugged.
“That’s Coach, he’ll keep you grounded all the time,” Trubisky said. “That’s how he operates. I know that. For him saying that just gives me a heads up that I need to come in to work during spring ball and show him I am the guy, let him and the coaches make the decision after that. I know what I have to do this spring.”
Toward that end, Trubisky took the field Sunday with his Tar Heel teammates for the first day of spring practice. It was a sunny but chilly day and at least there was no snow on the perimeter of the Navy Field practice complex like there was 52 weeks ago. Absent were a half dozen Tar Heels whose eligibility expired but ready to get even better is a nucleus of juniors and sophomores from last year’s 11-3 team that won the ACC Coastal Division title. The Tar Heels will practice again Tuesday and Thursday and then break for campus-wide spring break.
“I’m definitely excited,” says Trubisky, a rising junior. “We have so much talent coming back, the sky’s the limit for this team. We want to build off last year. We’ll look at what went well, look at the mistakes we made, try to make this season even better. That’s the goal—to go places we haven’t been before, to do something special.”
