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UNC Tarheels Football Schedule Fall 2008
THE FIRST OF MANY TO COME. Congrats to Kentwan Balmer being selected as a first round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers!
2008 North Carolina Tar Heels Football Schedule
Aug 30 McNeese St
Sept. 11 at Rutgers
Sept. 20 VA Tech 12:00pm
Sept. 27 at Miami
Oct 4 Connecticut
Oct. 11 Notre Dame
Oct. 18 at Virginia
Oct. 25 Boston College
Nov. 8 Ga Tech
Nov. 15 at Maryland
Nov. 22 NC State
Nov. 29 at DUKE
MrTarheel's "Way in Advance" Predictions for 2008 !
McNeese State - WIN
( McNeese is not as good as App St so I don't think we will have a "Michigan" type upset here - do you like how I compared UNC Football to Michigan?)
Rutgers - Loss
( Rutgers will be good again but lost some key guys on offense. This will be big for UNC if they can win but I give Rutgers the edge at their stadium)
VA TECH - WIN
( We get 'em in Chapel Hill and we get 'em early in the season. That's the key. They are losing a ton of guys....they will replace them but we have a chance early in the season. and we have been close in the past when they had better teams)
MIAMI - Loss
( Miami wasn't great in 2007 and will have a new QB in 2008. Even still, I think their talent level and year 2 under Shannon helps them win)
UCONN - WIN
( I think UCONN will be strong again but UNC gets the home win. )
NOTRE DAME - WIN
( After this win and after the prior week's win over UCONN everyone will say UNC football is back! Don't get too big for your britches yet. Notre Dame will be better but still not a great team. )
UVA - Loss
( I think UVA has our number. I don't know why. UNC won't be top 25 caliber yet.)
BC- WIN
( No Matt Ryan. Key losses at other positions. Butch will get this ACC win )
GA TECH - WIN
( New system for Ga Tech. Maybe they will be good the first year but I don't think so. Heels win. )
Maryland - Loss
( Maryland loses a lot but always seem to play well against the Heels. )
NC STATE - Win
( I think the Heels will be fired up for this one. State will be about the same in 2008 as in 2007 I think. Heels get 'em in Kenan )
DUKE - WIN
( new coach- UNC wins )
That's an 8-4 season for the HEELS! Decent bowl game. Their strength of schedule won't be high as the ACC will be down in 2008 I think. Many of the young players will shine during the season...not sure which ones yet but the overall age of the team will higher as will the talent level.
** Def Coordinator Chuck Pagano has taken a job with the Baltimore Ravens and will not be back for 2008 **
Have no fear....Butch is here.
WELCOME ! to new Defensive Coordinator Everett Withers. It is great to have him on the Tar Heel staff!
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Football 2008
spring football update from tarheelblue.com
Spring football practice is a five-week compendium of introductions, auditions, experiments and evolution. It's an organized three-ring circus with a new coach here, emerging red-shirt freshmen and sophomores there, players tending to injuries on the sidelines and neophytes sweating and grunting in an effort to be noticed.
The results of Carolina's 2008 spring Petri dish will be on display Saturday when the Tar Heels present their Spring Showcase exhibition. Among the storylines to look for are a thumbs-up reception to new defensive coordinator Everett Withers, a dead-heat in the back-up quarterback competition, the maturation of Greg Little at tailback and the sprouting of potential contributors in the secondary.
"It will be not only a showcase, but a spotlight on some of the younger guys to find out how much they have grown this spring," coach Butch Davis says. "We're not going to learn much more about Garrett Reynolds than we already know. But we need to find out about our back-up offensive line, the second-team secondary. We need to see what Devon Ramsay and Ryan Houston can do running the ball."
The loss of its coordinator and three stout seniors doesn't seem to have been a major deterrent to the continued evolution of the Tar Heel defense. Led by a deep pool of players at tackle and a salty cadre of experienced and younger players jostling for position in the secondary, the unit has been aggressive, noisy and effective.
"We've got a little bit of a swagger on defense," sophomore cornerback Kendric Burney says. "We want to develop a big swagger by August. We can be a Top 25 defense, if not a Top 10 ....read the rest of this at tarheelblue.com
Leadership on the Offensive Line
Jeff Saturday (BSBA ’97), otherwise known as No. 63 on the Indianapolis Colts offensive line, has had a very good year. Saturday, who plays center for the Colts, was widely considered to be one of the key drivers in the Indianapolis win over Chicago in the 2007 Super Bowl. After that, as a second-time AFC Pro Bowl pick, he helped the AFC team win over the NFC team in February.
“It’s been a lot of fun,” Saturday says. He has grown in his leadership role on the offensive line, he adds. “This season, especially, we learned no one player can be everything to a team. A leader can only go so far. But if he gets everyone to buy in and work together, it makes us stronger as a team.”
And how did his time at UNC help prepare him for his NFL career? “I had a good time at UNC and learned a great deal,” Saturday says. “Mack Brown was my coach at the time. He instilled a strong work ethic in all of us.”
Academically, Saturday says his experience at UNC Kenan-Flagler mirrored his experience on the football team. “I had to work hard at Kenan-Flagler and work in a team. And it really paid dividends for me,” Saturday says.
While he can cite a few faculty members who had a strong impact on him, one professor he recalls with particular fondness is organizational behavior professor Dick Blackburn, who he had his last year at UNC Kenan-Flagler. “Blackburn taught me to look at companies from a different perspective other than just the numbers,” Saturday says. “For example, are your employees satisfied, and how might that affect productivity?”
The lessons learned have come in handy for Saturday as he has opened a number of commercial and residential real estate development companies in Florida, Texas, Indianapolis and his hometown of Atlanta.
As for the future, Saturday hopes to be with the Colts for the rest of his professional football career. “I’d like to see us build a dynasty with this team,” Saturday says. “Obviously I’ll always cherish my first Super Bowl, but to achieve something bigger would be icing on the cake.” And if there is such a thing as life after football for Saturday, he plans to put even more of his UNC Kenan-Flagler experience to work as he switches his focus to his real estate businesses.
Saturday lives in Carmel, Ind., with his wife, Karen, and their three children: Jeffrey, 6, Savannah, 4, and Joshua, 5 months.
Get ready for the season with this video jam
U2 Football Jam
THIS NEVER GETS OLD. 9 MINUTE VIDEO OF UNC OVER MIAMI
Video from Butch Davis to Tar Heel fans!
The words of Coach Davis
Great article on UNC tight ends coach Steve Hagans
Found this on the web!
UNC Football
So, which football players will be the difference makers this year?
It's way early but here are some of my estimates...
QB
I think both Cam Sexton and TJ Yates will see significant time at QB.
TJ Yates
Our WR corps looks to be superb this year...Hakeem Nicks will have a great year. Joe Dailey, Brooks Foster, Brandon Tate...these guys will move the chains and make big plays.
Hilee Taylor coached by John Blake....I predict SUCCESS! and pain for opposing QB's.
Tar Heel signee Greg Little will appear in ESPNU's Summer House, the ESPN Original Entertainment reality series now in its second season. The show will premiere July 31 on ESPNU.
Little, a native of Durham, N.C., was a 2006 SuperPrep All-America and USA Today All-America selection. He was ranked the No. 2 player in the state of North Carolina and the No. 6 athlete in the country by SuperPrep.
The show, Summer House brings together six of the nation's top incoming college football freshmen to spend one week living under the same roof. The players will share a house in Jersey City, N.J., outside of New York City. The eight, 30-minute episodes will follow the diverse group of athletes as they interact and engage in various day-to-day competitive challenges, ultimately vying for the title "King of the House."
The series will be aired Tuesdays (July 31 - September 18) at 9 p.m. ET on ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, with re-airs generally scheduled for Wednesdays (starting Aug. 15) at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. Content will also be available across ESPN's multimedia platforms, including ESPN.com and ESPN360.com.
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Great article on 2006 Tar Heel football click here
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UNC Head Coach - John Bunting Bunting article
Article on 2006 team & Shelton Bynum click here
Article on Kicker - Conner Barth
Article on 2006 QB's - UNC Football
Article on JESSE Holley - UNC Football
Video of BC game opening kickoff
Sights and sounds of Rutgers game
Article on Tar Heel defense - Rutgers game
Tailback U - 1000 yards Rushers -UNC
GAME DAY - CHAPEL HILL INFO
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HEAD FOOTBALL COACH - BUTCH DAVIS
Butch Davis, former head coach at the University of Miami and the NFL's Cleveland Browns, is the 33rd head coach in University of North Carolina history and the ninth since the ACC was formed in 1953.
Davis was head coach for six seasons at the University of Miami (1995-2000) and led the Hurricanes to a 51-20 record, three Big East Conference championships and four postseason bowl wins in as many appearances.
He was a defensive assistant with the Dallas Cowboys from 1989-94 and was defensive coordinator in 1993 and 1994. The Cowboys won Super Bowls in 1992 and 1993 and played in one other NFC championship game.
A native of Tahlequah, Okla., Davis played college football at the University of Arkansas for Coach Frank Broyles. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology and life science in 1974. His coaching career began as a volunteer assistant in 1973 at Fayetteville High School in Arkansas. He had stints in Oklahoma at Pawhuska High School (1974-75) and Sand Springs High School (1976-77) as an assistant coach and at Tulsa Rogers High School (1978) in his first head coaching assignment before joining Johnson's staff at Oklahoma State.
Paul Hilton (Butch) Davis and his wife, Tammy, have a son, Drew.
I believe Butch Davis is to college football what Roy Williams is to college basketball. A man of class who excels at building a program and at being a winner.
Go Heels!
