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O’Brien Does Not Want UNC With His Turkey At Thanksgiving

NCSU’s Tom O’Brien made his feelings known concerning the UNC-NCSU game being played as the regular season finale.

“I think it’s a dumb game to play at that time of the year, because you’re crossing divisions,” O’Brien said Monday at the ACC media kickoff.

Since the ACC expanded to 12 teams in 2005, N.C. [...]

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Dean Smith Ranked 8th Greatest Coach

Of all time….regardless of sport.

Here is the top ten:

SPORTING NEWS’ TOP 50 COACHES

1. John Wooden, college basketball 2. Vince Lombardi, NFL 3. Bear Bryant, college football 4. Phil Jackson, NBA 5. Don Shula, NFL 6. Red Auerbach, NBA 7. Scotty Bowman, NHL 8. Dean Smith, college basketball 9. Casey Stengel, MLB 10. [...]

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Kuester’s Big Night

Interesting read from Lee Pace at The Ram’s Club.

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Now A Word About The Defense

…in the form of the preseason All-ACC picks.

Three Tar Heels were named to the preseason All-ACC defensive team: DE Marvin Austin, LB Quan Sturdivant and CB Kendric Burney. Virginia Tech had two players named to the defensive team which is to say UNC’s defense is expected to do great things this season.  Well that [...]

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Lucas: What Could Have Been Teams

Not sure if Adam Lucas reads THF but his article today serves as a nice follow-up to yesterday’s discussion of possible teams.  Lucas takes it a bit further by talking about all the teams that could have been if any number of Tar Heels had not gone to the NBA early.

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UNC Alumni Game

As a part of the 100 years of Tar Heel basketball, UNC is hosting an alumni game on September 4th at the Dean Dome. The event will include a incredible list of great Tar Heel players over the past couple of decades:

Nine members of the 2005 team (Raymond Felton, Sean May, Rashad McCants, Byron [...]

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Heels Picked 3rd In Coastal Division

A season removed from being in the driver’s seat to win the division, UNC finds itself tabbed for 3rd place in the Coastal tucked behind league champion favorite Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech.  The ACC sports writers put Miami fourth, Virginia 5th and Duke in 6th to round out the division.  In the Atlantic, folks [...]

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Davis: WRs Are Primary Concern

Sort of stating the obvious but getting it out there anyway.

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For Anyone Still Upset About Stickergate

I give you this:

“I saw Jerry at the Nike All-America Camp in Indianapolis. I said, `Wow.’ He was one of those guys who already had the body, and you knew he would fit the position he was going to play. He had a perimeter game that would be necessary because he wasn’t going to [...]

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Before Krzyzewski Rescued USA Basketball…Dean Did It First

A little history lesson via ACC Sports as a companion to the official news that Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski will coach Team USA again.

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ACC Now Summer Hoops Preview

This should tide you over for a bit.

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Rivals Top 120 Countdown: #28 UNC

Rivals.com has been rolling through the 120 Division I-A teams which finds the Heels ranked 28th for the upcoming season.

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