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FEBRUARY 2010
LET'S GO TAR HEELS!
Maryland this weekend. Heels really need this one.
Heels take on Va Tech ( at their place ) tonight ( Feb 4th ). I want to see if we can slow down Delaney and Hudson...if we do I think we win. Free throws will be huge also I think.
I really can't wait for FOOTBALL season this year...we actually have a team with a lot of terrific seniors on it. Big game against LSU to start the season. Just imagine if we win....would be huge.
JANUARY 2010
All quiet in Chapel Hill. Hoos beat Heels.
The good news about a young team like this one is the next game they could be on top of their game and win.
All quiet in Raleigh. Heels over Wolfpack.
LONG TERM vs SHORT TERM. I bet if the coaches were concerned about short term wins they would change the way this team plays. Slow the game down...take advantage of the height of the team. BUT, the players wouldn't learn to play the way Roy wants them to play. He is going to teach them to play fast...even if it means sacrificing wins for now so that LONG TERM the players get better and have a chance to accomplish great things in the future.
Ga Tech stings the Heels in Chapel Hill. Heels come back from 20 down. I am starting to hear some things I like from this team...here's a Will Graves quote:
"Well, I mean we are all blessed to wake up the next day. God wakes us up the next morning. We took a blow and we didn't fall, so we have another game and we just have to keep coming out, keep coming fighting, and keep putting it in our head that we need to start from the beginning of the game to the end of it. If we just do what coach says for 40 minutes we will be fine."
CLEMSON roughs up the Heels. The word of the game was "TURNOVERS". Most teams won't press the same way Clemson did. This will be the mark of a young team...at times they will look really bad. Each week they will get a little better.
Heels Play Clemson in Clemson Wednesday. Should be a tough one. I like Clemson...I always complement Clemson fans by saying, " Nice Tooth!".
North Carolina’s alumni basketball event is on Feb. 12 at the Smith Center.
Tickets for the alumni game, being billed “Celebration of a Century,” are $10 and available at TarHeelBlue.com and by calling the ticket office at (919) 962-2296 or 1-800-722-HEEL. More than 17,000 tickets have already been sold.
Former U.S. Olympians Bobby Jones, Walter Davis and J.R. Reid are scheduled to play in the alumni game. All three have their jerseys honored in the rafters at the Smith Center, as do George Lynch and Eric Montross, who led the 1993 Tar Heels to the national championship. Lynch and Montross will be joined on the floor by Brian Reese, another starter on the ’93 champions, and teammates Kevin Salvadori, Matt Wenstrom and Serge Zwikker.
Pete Chilcutt and Scott Williams, who went on to win multiple NBA championships with the Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls, respectively, also are among the list of Tar Heels scheduled to play.
ACC LEAGUE PLAY GETS UNDERWAY THIS WEEKEND!
Tar Heels get a tough one. Va Tech ( Sunday at 7:45pm on FSN ) is playing very well right now...only have 1 loss on the season. Tech has good guards( Hudson scored 41 a week ago against Seton Hall ). I predict a close one that the Heels win with a free throw ( yes, they will make an important free throw ).
Roy and the Heels lose one on the road against Charleston. I think one of the keys to Roy's system is getting easy baskets...right now, our guards aren't quite good enough to push the ball down court every time and dish to the proper player for easy basket. So, we set up in a half court set and we're not quite comfortable there either ( no consistent shooting from the outside yet ). Defensively this team has some work to do...I don't know if Roy's teams are ever really great at defense. But, they don't need to be as they can out score you. Until this team learns to get easy baskets the defensive problems will cause them to lose some games. Because they are so young, I think each week will bring better play...but, at times we will also see costly mistakes.
Once guys like Drew, Strickland, and McDonald can start hitting outside shots consistently I think the half court game will open up and things will flow much easier.
Another big issue for this team is an interesting one. Carolina needs to play "faster" than the other team. But, we have so many tall guys who can move but they are not faster than their opponents. It really seems like we don't quite have the personnel this year to run Roy's "fast break" style system. Good teams seem to be able to run with us as our 7 foot guys can't outrun their 6'7" guys. That's something to watch in the next month.
I also think the arm sling for Roy is bad luck and is holding him back from coaching his best. This was the last game for it...watch out as the ACC season cranks up!
Basketball
Wednesday Dec 30th
Tar Heels play Albany tonight. That's right. Albany. Watch out for Will Harris. ESPNU at 7:00pm
Heels beat Rutgers 81-67. I saw some good things in the game and lots of so-so things that are expected from young players...I just hope they get more physical, tough, and fluid as the ACC season gets going.
Longhorns over Tar Heels. Carolina is good....the problem is other teams are just better at this point. Our big men can't overpower good low post players...we don't fight for enough rebounds....we miss a lot of free throws...and we turn the ball over a lot. Not totally unexpected from a young team....it's a good group of players for Carolina out there that just have to get better every week. 4 good games coming up over the holidays ....ACC season starts Jan 10!
November 2009
This Tar Heel fan is "ALL IN". I appreciate the committment.
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September 2009
MrTarHeel is proud to be a part of the new Raycom Sports blog network...you can catch my thoughts at Raycomsports.com-UNC page. Read the "A Short Prayer by MrTarHeel" blog post to prepare for the UConn game!
It was a magical night in Chapel Hill at the alumni game.
Wow. Video highlights of the alumni game. They brought in the famous Chicago Bulls announcer for the game. Video highlights
OK, you knew this was going to happen. A UNC snuggie. If you get one please send me a photo of you wearing it!
This is the 2009 Tar Heel Christmas present of the year!
July 2009
Saw this article by a UNC student....I think you will like it. BECOMING A TAR HEEL
I'm a Pacers fan now. Indiana drafts Psycho T .
Lawson going to the Denver Nuggets. Wayne going to the Timberwolves...and Danny drafted by the Cavaliers ( can he make the team and play with LeBron and Shaq?)
Mr Williams Goes To Washington
The Championship Tar Heels met with the President and represented the Heel nation very well... Congratulations Tar Heels!
Quite possibly the best UNC basketball video ever....enjoy.( great work by whomever the editor is )
2010 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE!
Here's who we play
Spring Game (Apr. 10) LSU (Sept. 4, @ Atlanta) at Rutgers (Sept. 25) East Carolina (Oct. 2) William & Mary (Oct. 30) Clemson NC State at Florida State at Virginia Georgia Tech at Duke at Miami Virginia Tech
Butch Davis and his staff are already preparing for a terrific 2010 football season. Great news that the top juniors like Deunta, Marvin, etc are all coming back for their senior seasons!
photo courtesy UNC Athletics
Good Lord....the following was written by Tyler's father for Tar Heel Monthly....it may be the best thing I have ever read about Carolina and Carolina basketball.
Tyler Hansbrough
Would you call him a failure? He was a little kid and he couldn't quite raise the ball to the basket. He put the ball way down by his hip and pushed with everything he had. But the ball just wouldn't get over the rim. Still, he stayed there all alone, flinging the ball upward again and again. He never did make one that day but he stayed there a long, long time.
46 months ago my son left his home almost 800 miles behind to pursue his lifelong dream as a student athlete at the University of North Carolina. He was tall, then, shy boy with a fear of lying, elevators and failure. Although a good athlete, his greatest attribute could not be measured in the weight room or with a stop watch and tape measure. As a McDonalds's All Star American, he had many opportunities to play much closer to his Midwestern, small-town, roots. He made the journey because of his faith that Roy Williams and his staff would be able to nurture that attribute.
I watched him struggle through the lonely, homeless feeling that all college freshmen experience. On one of my first visits, I watched as almost 42 feet of gangly limbs, elbows and feet piled out of Marcus Ginyard's ex- police cruiser. They looked like a gaggle of newborn colts, this young group of Carolina freshmen. SI said they would lucky to make the NIT.
Then came my first visit to the Dean Smith Center. UNC was playing the Illinois, the 2005 NCAA runner-up. There was my son wearing the legendary blue Tar Heels uniform. The English language has no words to describe how I felt.
The games and the days went by. Friends and leaders such as Wes Miller and David Noel helped the young players find their way on and off the court. In late March, I saw the second-greatest game of my life. In the insane asylum known as Cameron Indoor Stadium, this young team beat J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams on Senior Night.
All life is full of peaks and valleys. The summit of the win at Durham gave way to the canyon of a second round loss to George Mason. I watched as Tyler and his teammates dealt with that loss.
The measure of a man is not that he gets knocked down but how he gets back up. Tyler took out his torment by stealing his body. With the help of Jonas Sahratian, he pulled cars around the Smith Center parking lot. Still chasing that dream. The next year, Roy William's team gained some respect. Tyler learned to show dignity and class by resisting the opportunity to criticize even when that opportunity left him with a broken nose. He was learning the Carolina Way.
Fate once again presented its hills and valleys to my son and Carolina fans. The ride to the final four was stopped one game short by a painful loss to Georgetown. My son also learned a bitter lesson in perspective. The disappointing defeat paled next to the tragic loss of Jason Ray on that same, cruel New Jersey night.
The next year again held great peaks and valleys for my son and the Tar Heel family. He saw one of his good friends go down with a season-ending injury. But we made it to the Final Four. The thrill quickly died when a great Kansas team eliminated us.
Tyler was to receive many individual accolades that year. As with any team sport, a large cast of characters contributed to any one person's success. During the middle of these honors, Tyler called me. It was a typical Tyler call, only this time there was a slight quiver in his voice. "Dad", he began, "I try not to think of individual things when we have so much to accomplish as a team, but Dad, when I came here I never thought my jersey would be retired in the rafters of the Smith Center." Again, words fail me as I try to describe my feelings at that moment.
As late spring approached, the same decision had to be made that had been made in the past three years. Tyler decided to stay at UNC for his senior year. The night of the NBA draft he spoke again, Dad, when I get through, I'll have something that the rest of them don't. A college degree.ā€¯ National player of the year with a college degree. An all too rare combination.
As I write this in late January, no one knows what where this years roller coaster ride will go. I do know that the boy who left Poplar Bluff, Missouri almost for years ago is a little taller and not really thin anymore. He has flown more miles than an arctic tern. He has ridden elevators to the top suites of the finest hotels in our great country. And on a magical night in late December, that formerly shy, young boy gave one of the most gracious speeches I have ever heard. That young boy from Poplar Bluff is now a man we can all be proud of. His physique, character and mind have all been chiseled into granite. H came to the University of North Carolina to chase a dream. While chasing that dream, he has come to live it every day. All of this comes from trusting one very remarkable man.
To Roy Williams, Joe Holladay and the wonderful coaching staff. To all Tylers teammates and friends at North Carolina. To Tar Heel fans everywhere. On behalf of myself and my family, thank you for allowing my son to be a part of the greatest basketball family on the planet: The Tar Heels Nation.
“If you ever see us guys walking a ball down the court and playing a 2-3 zone and making twenty passes, have it checked into. My wife has had me killed, and there's an alien crawled up in my body.”
Roy Williams
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MrTarheel is the fan site for the UNC Tar Heels with a primary emphasis on UNC basketball and UNC football. It is our goal to provide information, resources and content to make following the North Carolina Tar Heels easier and more enjoyable. There are Tar Heel fans everywhere and a large portion of them are not alumni. They follow the Tar Heels because of the tradition of excellence they see in the programs and the University.
Tar Heel basketball fans are living in their own "blue heaven" right now with coach Roy Williams at the helm. Dean Smith was the best and Bill Guthridge was a solid replacement but Roy Williams has established himself as team builder, a championship coach and a role model. Read more about the Tar Heel basketball team at our UNC basketball page.
The 2006 football season brought disappointing results. Enter Butch Davis. The highly successful former coach at Miami and at the Cleveland Browns began his coaching era in Chapel Hill in 2007. With Butch Davis and Roy Williams, UNC Chapel Hill has maybe the 2 best coaches in the country in the two headline sports. Tar Heel fans look forward to future success with the football program under Coach Davis. Lookout BCS...the UNC Tar Heels are already a top-25 team. where will the 2009 team finish?
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won 37 team national championships in five different sports, 8th all-time, and 51 individual national championships. The UNC women's soccer team has won nineteen national championships since 1981; the men's soccer team won the championship in 2001; the women's basketball team in 1994; the UNC Tarheels basketball (men's) team in 1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, and 2009; the UNC men's lacrosse team in 1982, 1986, and 1991; the UNC women's field hockey team in 1985, 1995, 1996, and 1997; the women's team handball team won in 2004; and the men's team handball team has won the last three National Championships in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The Carolina men's crew team won the 2004 ECAC National Invitational Collegiate Regatta in the varsity eight category. The North Carolina Tarheels Men's Baseball team is also a perennial power, and in 2006 made it to the Championship round of the College World Series.
UNC-Chapel Hill
If you haven't had a chance to visit the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill then you have missed a real treat. As most folks who have been here will tell you, the campus really sells itself. Aspiring students only need to visit once and they are usually hooked. The campus provides a terrific setting for learning and excellence.
Mr TarHeel believes everyone should
become a UNC Tar Heel fan. If you are not, he recommends you watch
lots of North Carolina
basketball this season, attend a UNC football game, buy some UNC
clothing and wear it often, and come back to MrTarHeel often.
North Carolina basketball and football exude all that is right with sports.
It is well worth your time to follow them !
I'm a Tar Heel born
I'm a Tar Heel bred
And when I die
I'm a Tar Heel dead.
So it's Rah, Rah, Car'lina-lina
Rah, Rah, Car'lina-lina
Rah, Rah, Car'lina-lina
Rah! Rah! Rah!
What's the difference between Treasury bonds and Clemson fans?
Treasury bonds eventually mature.
What's the difference between a Duke fan and a carp?
One is a bottom-feeding, scum sucker, and the other is a fish.
How do you keep a Clemson girl from biting her nails?
Make her wear shoes.
Where does Ramses get his hair cut?
At the baa-baa shop.
RAM MASCOT
For nearly 70 years the mascot of the North Carolina football team has been a ram. A UNC cheerleader decided the school needed an animal mascot to serve as a symbol, just like Georgia's bulldog and N.C. State's wolf. Two years earlier the Tar Heels had posted a brilliant 9-1 record. The star of that 1922 team was a bruising fullback named Jack Merritt. Merritt was nicknamed "the battering ram" for the way he plunged into lines. It seemed natural to link a mascot with Merritt's unusual sobriquet. Thus, it was decided to purchase a ram named Rameses the First. The ram was introduced before the game with VMI, who was favored to beat the North Carolina Tar Heels. Late in the game, Carolina's Bunn Hackney was called upon to attempt a field goal. Before taking the field, he stopped to rub Rameses' head for good luck. Seconds later Hackney's 30-yard dropkick sailed between the goalposts, giving the Tar Heels a 3-0 victory.
Chancellors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert B. House (1934-1945 as Dean of Administration; 1945-1957 as
Chancellor)
William Brantley Aycock (1957-1964)
Paul F. Sharp (1964-1966)
J. Carlyle Sitterson (1966-1972)
N. Ferebee Taylor (1972-1980)
Christopher C. Fordham (1980-1988)
Paul Hardin (1988-1995)
Michael Hooker (1995-1999)
William O. McCoy (acting and interim chancellor, 1999-2000)
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