Friday. September 1, 1978 The Dally Tar Has. 7
So healthy defense can equal 1977
By PETE MITCHELL
Assistant Sports Editor .
It's really no secret. After leading the nation in scoring
defense a season ago, Carolina's defense this fall has
quite an act to follow.
You can talk about the veer and the new coaching staff
and even all the ticket sales, but what many persons want
to know is i fthe Carolina defense will ever be as tough as
in 1977. Ken Sheets, a pre-season All-America choice at
defensive end, has an answer.
"Yeah, we can be just as good, but only if nobody gets
hurt." v
That would be quite an oddity in the world of college
football, but Sheets and the rest are counting on staying
healthy and taking UNC to another ACC
championship, even with the departed Dee Hardison,
Rod Broadway and Alan Caldwell.
"We might not hold the points down as well, but I
think the offense will score a lot more too," Sheets said.
Along with Sheets' pre-season nomination for All-
America by Playboy magazine came the consensus
opinion that Clemson, not ' Carolina, would win the
ACC. Sheets isn't too concerned about either prediction.
"Being pre-season All-America is fine, but 1 don't
think about it. I've seen people not make it at the end of
the year, and that's when they remember you," he
said.They can say all they want about Clemson. It's,
good for them to be in the driver's seat, but somebody's
got to take it away from us first before they're No. 1."
The 220-pounder from Wobdbridge, Va., is counted .
on as both a senior leader and a player to improve a
rather uninspired pass rush of a year ago.
"We're working on the pass rush and pass coverage
more than ever before," Sheets said.
But it all depends on how healthy the defense can stay.
Donnell Thompson and Bunn Rhames were reliable
replacements on the line last year, but Coach C'rum is
not blessed with great depth this season.
"Nobody can get hurt." Sheets said. "We just don't
have anyone with enough experience to replace them
yet. They've got to get into a few games first."
Crum's deiensive innovations -have gone almost
unnoticed with the introduction of the veer to his
offense, but Sheets said there would be a lot more
stunting with the linebackers and ends to confuse
opposing offenses.-Carolina will be concentrating on
clogging up the middle and forcing ballcarriers to the
outside more in order to take advantage of its good
pursuit. ' : . : .
"Everybody's used to not giv ing up any points, but it's
important that we don't lose our confidence if a team
jumps out in from on us early."
ECU's explosive wishbone poses, that threat when
Carolina plays the Pirates in the opener Sept. 16
"Last year when we almost beat Kentucky after losing
21-0 in the Peach Bowl the year before, it gave us the
confidence we needed for the rest of the season." Sheets
said. "Some of the ECU players were up here for summer
school talking junk about how they were going to beat
us. The first game is real important. And il we lose. some
guys will be fearing practice more than the rest of the
teams."
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Duke quarterback Mike
Dunn, shown at left in action
in a 39-38 loss to Carolina in
1976, jammed his thumb
Tuesday in the Blue Devils'
second intrasquad
scrimmage of the season.
He's expected to return to
action in time for the Blue
Devils' season opener Sept.
9 at home against Georgia
Tech. Stanley Driskell is
running first team
quarterback in Dunn's
place.
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Media picks Tigers for A CC title
Area sportswriters and sportscasters
who recently completed a tour of the
ACC football training campus voted
Clemson as their pre-season favorite to
win the conference title.
The Tigers received I40'2 points in the
poll based on the votes of 21 media
representatives while UNC got- 9Vz
N.C. State was next with 100'2, then
Maryland, 97'2; Duke, 63; Wake Forest,
35; and Virginia, 32. Clemson got 6Vz
first-place votes with Carolina getting
two and N.C. State Wi
Members of the Operation Football
tour also picked a pre-season All-ACC
team, with Clemson landing seven
players on the 26-player offensive and
defensive squad. UNC, State and
Maryland each had four players on the
team.
Five were unanimous picks: Guard Joe
Bostic of Clemson, running backs Ted
Brown of N .C. State and Amos Lawrence
of Carolina, defensive lineman Jonathan
Brooks of Clemson and punter Russ
Henderson of Virginia.
AW 13 players returning from last
season's All-ACC team were awarded
places on the pre-season selection. The
squad is comprised of 14 seniors, 10
juniors and two sophomores.
In addition to the five unanimous
choices, all of whom earned All-ACC
honors during 1977, the other returnees
are receiver Jerry Butler of Clemson.
guard Mike Salzano of UNC.
quarterback Steve Fuller of Clemson and
running back James McDougald of
tWake Fore&t on offense.- On thc-delensiv c
team are lineman Ken Sheets of UNC.
linebackers Randy Scott of Clemson and
Buddy Curry of UNC and buck Steve
Ryan of Clemson.
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, in the
backcourt for the Tar Heels, at one
guard, 6-loot-4, 1 87 pounds, a senior,
from Hampton, Va Mike Dunn!
At that point Dean Smith would adjust
his cuff links and his necktie, the next Tar
Heel would psyche himself for, his
introduction to the Carmichael
Auditorium crowd and Norman Sloan or
Lefty Driesell whoever happened to be
in town that night would be arguing
with an usher.
Basketball in Chapel Hill, as usual.
Or at least it could have been that way.
In the spring of 1975 Mike Dunn was
offered a scholarship to play basketball at
Carolina. He would be a senior this year
along with Dudley Bradley and Cied
Doughton. But there was something he
wanted to do more throw a football
rather than shoot a basketball.
Mike McGee. the football coach at.
Duke, was delighted."
"Sometimes I sit back and .wonder
what the situation would be if I'd chosen
basketball and gone to North Carolina."
Dunn. Duke's senior quarterback, told a
group of touring sportswriters early this
week. !1 liked Coach Smith; 1 liked the
program. Basketball was my first love. I
miss it. At times. 1 w ish I'd gone out here.
But I'm so banged up in November I
knew it would be too hard.
"But football was what I really wanted.
I've had great success.
But not quite enough success to satisfy
Mike Dunn and his bittersweet career
w ith the Blue Devils.
Dunn has set six Blue Devil records
and is within reach of nine more is he
continues his present pace. He's rushed
for more than 100 yards in one game six
times, and has rushed and passed for
more than 200 in one game seven times.
He's won back of the week honors, he's
been named team most valuable player,
and he's earned honorable mention All
America awards.
But he's never been named the ACC's
top quarterback.' Mark Manges of
Maryland won that two seasons ago and
Steve Fuller of Clemson was rated tops
last year.
wanted to be all-ACC quarterback
three years in a row." he said. "But I've
been a close runner-up two years."
He hints that one reason he didn't earn
more votes was that .Maryland in 1976
and Clemson in 1977 were better than
Duke's teams both years. Which brings
up another reason Dunn isn't completely
happy with his years at Duke. .
The Blue Devils have not had a
winning season since he's been there.
They've never been awful: they've always
been mediocre. Duke's record the past
three seasons is 14-16-3.
"I sure hope we can have a much better
season than 5-6." he said.
To do that. Dunn w ill have to outdo his
performance of the past two seasons to
make up for a young, inexperienced front
line, and the Duke defense will have to be
as good or better than it's expected to be.
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McGee said. "We'll be particularly strong
at linebacker with Carl McGee and Billy
King.
Carl McGee was all-conference as a
sophomore two years ago. and he and
King ranked one-two in teams tackles last
year. McGee has started in all. but two
games while at Duke.
The Blue Devils return only two of six
starters from the offensive line. And
unless the newcomers are able to give
Dunn time to run his option and find his
receivers, the quarterback will be making
more of those 60-yard runs backward and
forward and sideways that add up to a
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Dunn." Virginia coach Dick Bestwick
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.things happen. I really believe we could
have won four or five more games over
the past two years.
"Dunn is a guy. who, when it has to be
done, he gets it done. We haven't had that
here."
Mike McGee is equally impressed.
"People have tried just about everything
in American college defense to stop him,
and he's still performed well.
Mike Dunn hopes he performs even
better in 1978, and that would be pretty
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