So said Norman Dale in Hoosiers.
UNC did not practice yesterday following the less than ideal 2nd half of the 2nd half against Valpo. The word is Roy Williams poked his head into the locker room after the game and said: “See you Tuesday.” That conjures up images of that timeout during the Wake Forest game last season when Roy simply stood in the huddle and said nothing. Apparently it was enough to scare the young Tar Heels because on Twitter both Ed Davis and Larry Drew think they are in for a rough ride this afternoon.
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They’ll know for sure if there are no rims up when they get to practice.
As good as Roy is at recruiting, I think this may be what he is best at… getting the team to rebound from a tough loss or poor performance.
Love it. Two sophs who understand that how you beat Valpo in November has something to do with being able to win six straight in March-April.
Will graves had a similar tweet
The good news is that with the day off yesterday Roy has had a cooling off period. The bad news is Roy also has had nothing else to scrutinize and think about for the past 30-36hrs.
I think he’ll get their attention.
They’ll figure something out.
I think I’ve decided to boycott the rest of the season. (The Central game doesn’t count because I wasn’t planning to stay up for it anyway.)
No radio! I picked up some of the end of the Valpo game in Asheville on a Morganton FM station, but it only came in if I stood in one spot and didn’t move the radio. The alleged Asheville Tar Heel Sports Network station apparently exists (they have a very offensive web site that has pornographic pictures), but there’s no signal at 104.9. The only thing I hear is another station. (This is FM!)
If this is what I get for being a lifelong fan, nuts to them.
Did you know hats without the UNC logo are about $10 cheaper? A plain hat is about $15, and it’s about $25 when they embroider the logo.
Anyhow, how do you contact the THSN and complain? If lifelong fans are deserting the team, ignoring the sponsors, and not buying their merchandise, do they care?
You should have tuned in to the play-by-play by uncgirl.
I just keep reminding myself what THF said early on and has repeated. This is a young team and there will be ups and downs. We just need to buckle up and go for the ride. Just like turbulence while flying, no one likes it too much but it is part of the journey.
As always THF, I enjoy your Hoosiers references.
I expect the team is going to look a heckofalot better on Thursday. I’m looking forward to seeing their tweets later tonight.
“Just like turbulence while flying, no one likes it too much but it is part of the journey.”
I tend to enjoy turbulence, but then again, I’m weird as all get-out…
I think that even though we devout fans are expecting a “2006″ it is certainly hard to remember the game to game emotions. For example, does everyone remember the Gardner-Webb game? (Noel hits a 3 pointer at the buzzer)……
After 2006, we knew numba 50 was in the middle and Lawson was dribbling, so we’ve had different expectations.
I for one, will still yell at the TV while knowing in the back of my mind, the Heels still are the national champs!
I’m really enjoying watching the young guys develop and I’m enjoying Deon and Marcus as they evolve as leaders. I really don’t think that I have it in me to sweat the win total much this year. The time will come soon enough again where I’m living and dying by the results of each individual game, but if the guys show continual improvement, harmony, and effort I’ll be pretty happy with this season.
At least we aren’t Georgetown fans… 19-13 over Temple at the HALF!!! Disgusting basketball…
CM: I enjoy turbulence too. My stomach does this weird flip-flop thing. It’s awesome! Don’t worry you’re not as weird as you think you are.
I’m good with growth and turbulence, they have different styles and personalities so it’s all good. I watched about 20 minutes of UCLA vs cal Fullerton last night and that made me feel great about the Heels. Everyone is raw and rough around the edges, we’ve been less so in recent years as we had a core of players in the game making it look simple. Yep Georgetown struggled as did Kentucky, good.
I did see some onside kicks being practiced today and that was enjoyable.
georgetown IS struggling, down 1 late.
i heard a radio caller today, and read a post at IC, and its possible theyre the same person, say this:
“So I get in my car tonight and my radio happens to be set to a station that is airing the Dook game tonight. So I thought well, I’ll listen to the pregame a bit. So they go coming up next a word with the coach. The first question asked to K is about the Preseason NIT and what he thinks about it.
Then he lays into it. The first words out of his mouth are “we have to win two games to even get to go to NY” Then he goes into it about how some certain other tournaments the teams are preselected to go to NY and that they have to win two games to get there. And just how terrible it is to the sport that we have tournaments that are not tournaments and how we should just get rid of them.
Hmmmmm, Coaches vs Cancer. Big time tournament that has preselected teams go to NY, only other major tournament in NY. Donates money to help fight cancer so they preselect the teams so they can draw the most people and make the most money for CANCER research. Also a minor side note this is the tournament UNC is in this year.”
i’d like to know if anyone else heard it, but being a Dook basketball pregame, probably not.
well, Temple missed a 1 and 1. they dont call them FREE for nothing.
and then Monroe walked out top, uncalled.
and then the clock ran on his made basket with 6 secs.
and somehow Georgetown still won.
I heard Roy on Mike and Mike this morning and the question poised to him about the tough teams coming up and the young team is what is he looking for. The answer was simple. He’s looking to see how his freshman react in crunch time. See how our PG is against another good PG. I like it. Roy knows how early in the season it is and he knows these games are stepping stones for a bigger picture.
Didn’t Duke play in the Coaches vs Cancer last season?
exactly!
i’d still kinda like a 2nd source on the story.
like playing coastal carolina and charlotte isnt being “selected”.
Good news: This team has a tremendous upside.
Bad news: They’ll need it.
In ulcer terms, last year was easy. I expected to win every game and that’s about what happened. This year, I think I’m going to spend some of the time yelling at the tube, and some of the time pleased as punch about the grit they showed. But I’ll be darned if I know which will be the more frequent.
TheUNCFan: This will kill you, but I can pick up 102.3 out of Boone and I live in the Johnson City, TN area.
I just got ESPNU on my cable this year though, so I don’t have to go to a local sports bar/restaurant to watch it on their dish. I have driven 40+ miles to watch some games on a different cable network.
Another unrelated note: I am glad I got to meet C. Michael last year in Atlanta. I always enjoy his comments on here. He is crazy as all get-out I hear.
The Carolina radio situation is ridiculous. I think they anticipated many more people having satellite radio. Leaving WBT was crazy. Kentucky is still on a clear channel station and I can hear all of their night games here in Maryland.
For those with Directv, we do now apparently get ESPNU without buying the sports package, although no one from Directv bothered to tell me and I missed those UNC basketball games last week, although none of them sounded particularly compelling compared to the football game, where finally the gridiron boys overshadowed their cage counterparts and for a second time, they “beat Miami.”
Finally, I think this flavor of posts about an “angry” Roy Williams and tough practices after poor performances are is becoming boring and trivial. We all know about Roy taking the rims off. It just isn’t interesting to me, anyway, but since there are 20 something comments, I guess I am in the minority. Obviously, not every post is going to be a hit with everybody, but this type of post to me, over and over, is not only disparaging to the players, it is sort of like the guys who say over and over that a team can’t win in both basketball and football. We’ve all heard it, lol.
There probably isn’t a single team in the country that doesn’t go through the same type of up’s and down’s. But apparently, “angry” Roy sells. You never heard about “angry” Dean Smith, but then again I guess that wasn’t part of Dean’s shtick.
It is not so much the “angry” Roy motif but rather the fact we got a small glimpse into what the players were thinking about it today heading into practice. That was the interesting part not the fact Roy probably showed them some tough love today. Had these not shown up on Twitter I doubt I would have mentioned it even though Roy hit on it last night during his call in show.
Coach Kay isn’t worth the rig that Roy’s “friggins” ride in on…sloppy seconds is what he is anymore. Remember the Kay mantras of old? “I don’t like to play those games, like Dean does…maybe I’m not that smart…I’d rather just tell you what I’m thinking.” Jeeesh. What a freaking moron.
As far as picking up the games, I gotta tell you all that satellite radio has been wonderful. Woody and Eric, crystal clear here in Big Ten country!
I WOULD pay a premium rate to just catch five minutes of a practice like the one (I’m sure) they had today.
“You never heard about “angry” Dean Smith, but then again I guess that wasn’t part of Dean’s shtick.”
There were also no blogs/message boards when Dean coached, save for maybe his last year or two.
Also, thanks Joe! Glad to know my “crazy” translates!!
Big Ten Country is pretty large but
unlike the ACC, which is a vertically oriented conference, the Bit Ten goes from Penn State on the East coast to Iowa and Minnesota, which are close to 1000 miles to the west.
I am a radio buff and I can tell you that with the possible exception of Iowa and perhaps Minnesota, WBT was strong enough to be heard in all those areas, particularly those more to the north as opposed to the west. WBT is easily heard in Toronto and Montreal and Miami after sundown. As I check it right now before sun up in Maryland, the WBT 6:00 AM News is coming in like a local station here in Maryland. As soon as the sun comes up, the signal will disappear.
I know times and media have changed,but Dean Smith believed that WBT’s strong signal particularly helped in the recruiting of players like Mike O’koren, whose parents said it was important to them to be able to hear virtually all of the Heels’ games. Of course, this is only true after sundown due to the propagation of the airwaves and FCC rules, but Carolina only plays a handful of day basketball games anyway.
Notre Dame football is on WFAN which is clear channel. Kentucky is on a clear channel station for both basketball and football. UNC should still be too.
Yes, there are some good things about satellite radio, particularly for sports for people who live outside a team’s normal coverage area.
Baseball buffs can hear all of the local broadcasts, complete with the local flavor of regional ads via satellite radio. As someone who enjoys listening to the Yankees, Cubs and Reds on their clear channel AM broadcasts, this is a pretty cool offering. I would like to hear Vin Scully and some of the guys we can’t hear from the other side of the Mississippi.
However, it is not particularly cheap, and although less subject to fading than AM radio, as long as you have found a sweet spot in your house or car, satellite radio is actually inferior in terms of audio.
Yes, you heard me right. Digital is not better than analog, it is simply a different technology and while satellite radio has the capacity to be better than AM, the reason it is not is the basic greed of the satellite companies(company now).
Satellite broadcasts tend to be highly compressed, which is akin to the quality of the videos on Youtube. NPR sounds terribly clipped on satellite radio because it is overly compressed. This is the same phenomenon that they have had in Europe with digital radio and with so-call multiple local HD televsion broadcasts of the same channel in the U.S., (Channel 3, 3.1, 3.2, etc.) which are not HD in reality) due to the excessive compression.
Why? Like the satellite and cable television providers, satellite radio has opted to use their bandwidth to provide huge numbers of stations with marginal signal quality, as opposed to a smaller number of stations that people might really want to watch and listen to, with a higher quality of signal. You could be watching and listening to many shows with better picture and sound if bandwidth were not also being taken up to provide umpteen eurodance stations, or the hundreds of cable and satellite channels that most of us have little use for.
Audiophiles have basically verified that you can compress CDs to about one quarter of their original size without losing much in the way of fidelity. Satellite radio (as well as iTunes) compresses their signal far more than that. This is why satellite radio, in spite of their very interesting musical offerings, has never made inroads in the audiophile community, who will not accept that level of compression, i.e., lopping off sound quality.
It is disappointing to me, because I had high hopes for satellite radio (I do own an XM radio but it is not hooked up because I am not going to pay $13 dollars a month for something that is far lower than CD quality and yes, far lower than standard FM quality in terms of sound quality.
The satellite radio companies, which have now merged, had a lot of start-up capital at the beginning, so UNC may have done well with the contract, but this media is not doing well now (nor is HD FM, which stands for “hybrid digital” and not high definition, is another farce), so hopefully we will hear UNC back on WBT again soon. The Carolina Panthers are on WBT and I don’t see any reason for the Carolina Tar Heels not to be as well.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-9860284-47.html
Stuck in Ohio is no fun during basketball season. Since the Heels take on OSU tomorrow night, they were discussing the upcoming game on ESPN radio locally in Columbus. They call it “ESPN Radio” but it tends to be biased OSU commentators. At any rate, I was pleased to hear how concerned they are facing the Heels. I despise the Buckeyes just a bit more than I do Dook – probably since I’m in suckeye country.
At any rate, the radio guys were concerned mostly with Ed Davis and the height of this Tar Heel team. They, as most of us expect Davis to have a break out year. The one upside to OSU is their experience, having 0 freshmen on the team. Evan Turner has really played well so far (granted against less than mediocre teams). His last 2 games he’s pulled down 17 rebounds (I think) so the Heels need to use their height to their advantage and make sure they block out. Our guards can keep up with him no problem (in theory). I would think Ginyard would be assigned to guarding him since he is their biggest threat.
Anyway, it was nice to finally hear some things about the Tar Heels locally instead of having to browse the web for content. I can’t wait to get out of Ohio.
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing William! I am the only person around that enjoys 50′s music like the Clovers, Dell Vikings, Platters, Dion & the Belmonts, so I pretty much have to have XM.
Honestly, I hope that Roy doesn’t take the rims off… He did that when trying to have one of the most prolific offensive teams in college ever focus a bit more on defense.
This years team needs to get better on the offensive side. Some of that is by better passing, some of it is by better shot selection, and some of it is done by better shooting. For those last two, I think having the rims will help a ton.
My wife got XM some years back because she was tired of listening to radio in the mornings and not being able to actually find any music. That was the big selling point to us, though as william points out the quality is not what most people who hear “digital” are expecting. Now though, the “commercial-free” XM radio has as many commercials as regular radio. Just like cable/satellite TV, we pay a premium to hear advertisements. When did we as consumers determine that was an acceptable practice? Imagine cable TV without commercials! That would be nirvana, and I’d be willing to pay extra for that.
I have XM in my truck and my boat and am very satisfied. My biggest problem with them it is they switch channels around everyone in a while and it can be a pain adjusting. I have had quality reception and sound for the past 7 years now.
Which satellite station carries the Tar Heels’ games?
That is a good point about having to basically pay twice for cable or satellite television for what we used to get for free.
I bet a lot of you would be happy with just your local channels provided you could also get the various ESPN’s and maybe Fox Sports Net, but just try to find a company that offers a package like that. I love gays and lesbian, but I don’t need the gay and lesbian channel on Directv, just like I don’t need the umpteen religious channels on Directv, or really the music channels, or the shopping channels, I could go on and on. Plus we have to pay an add on fee for all the HD channels we get that we don’t want.
I think a lot of us are basically paying $50 a month for ESPN.
In terms of the satellite station that carries UNC, I think you have to check the daily schedule and they list which games are on. I can’t even remember if it is XM or Sirius as they used to have different sports divided between the two.
In terms of the sound quality of satellite radio, it is similar to the distinction between vinyl records and CDs.
Some people really hate static and digital sources don’t have static. They either come in or they don’t, whereas analog sources can sort of come in and analog radio can fade, whereas digital radio simply disappears completely if the signal goes below a certain threshold.
In terms of the other aspects that go into providing a quality listening experience, terrestrial radio is pretty much hands down better, particularly with the spoken shows which can sound strange and distorted when overly compressed. It may not bother some people but I listen to a lot of old time radio shows and I really hate the clipped aspect that comes from trying to make the file too small.
william,
If you mean that vinyl beats CDs in audio quality hands down, I’m with you…blind tests prove time and time again that vinyl sound is superior to compact disc.
Scratched records sound worse than CDs, but are still more listenable than scratched compact discs to me.
Many modern records are unlistenable because of the compression, which helps make sounds louder but flatter. Much of the audio today (music and otherwise) is being made to be heard in crappy little earbuds and the like, not for anything resembling hi-fidelity.
JBowling –
Your taste in music is superb. And don’t forget the Everly Brothers and Danny and the Juniors.
And I find that broadcast radio has the appeal of being simple and egalitarian – it’s nice to just flip on the radio in the car or in bed or wherever. badbadleroybrown, I digress again, but, I was at that UCLA-Fullerton game – UCLA is worse than early-season-ragged. They tried to trap and left a guy under the basket with noone within ten feet of him. Awful.