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by Lee Pace
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Bob Marley
The Tar Heels got soaked and dunked and drowned Saturday amid rain and wind of near biblical proportions. A football field in Kenan Stadium just over a year old with tight bermuda turf and a state-of-the-art foundation of 10 inches of sand over four of gravel drained remarkably well as Hurricane Matthew roared northward from Florida and left a deluge of some five inches of rainfall by kick-off in Chapel Hill.
The footing was one thing. Handling the ball was another.
“If I’m Larry Fedora, I’m sick looking at this forecast of wind and rain,” former East Carolina head coach and NFL assistant Steve Logan said Friday on one of his regular Triangle-area radio appearances. “What UNC is really good at is throwing the football. Right now UNC has one of the best collections of skill talent, beginning with the quarterback. They’ve got it all on offense. I’m sick if I’m Larry Fedora with the weather against a really good defensive team. I suspect Virginia Tech is built to run the ball a little better than UNC is built to run the ball.”
Truer words, as they say. Logan’s crystal ball was spot-on as Virginia Tech under first-year coach Justin Fuente and two-decade-plus defensive coordinator Bud Foster schooled the Tar Heels in a 34-3 landslide victory for Tech in a key ACC Coastal Division game.
by Lee Pace
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Bob Marley
The Tar Heels got soaked and dunked and drowned Saturday amid rain and wind of near biblical proportions. A football field in Kenan Stadium just over a year old with tight bermuda turf and a state-of-the-art foundation of 10 inches of sand over four of gravel drained remarkably well as Hurricane Matthew roared northward from Florida and left a deluge of some five inches of rainfall by kick-off in Chapel Hill.
The footing was one thing. Handling the ball was another.
“If I’m Larry Fedora, I’m sick looking at this forecast of wind and rain,” former East Carolina head coach and NFL assistant Steve Logan said Friday on one of his regular Triangle-area radio appearances. “What UNC is really good at is throwing the football. Right now UNC has one of the best collections of skill talent, beginning with the quarterback. They’ve got it all on offense. I’m sick if I’m Larry Fedora with the weather against a really good defensive team. I suspect Virginia Tech is built to run the ball a little better than UNC is built to run the ball.”
Truer words, as they say. Logan’s crystal ball was spot-on as Virginia Tech under first-year coach Justin Fuente and two-decade-plus defensive coordinator Bud Foster schooled the Tar Heels in a 34-3 landslide victory for Tech in a key ACC Coastal Division game.
