The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 30, 19905
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Will UNC go bowling
after regular season?
By A.J. BROWN
Staff Writer
Dear Coach Brown:
On behalf of the selection committee
for the 1991 Bow l (use your
imagination, but don't get carried
away), I would like to extend an invi
tation to the University of North Caro
lina Tar Heels to play in our little post
Christmas football bash. The dress is
pretty casual (uniforms and cleats);
food, transportation and lodging are
provided. Prizes are awarded to the
team that scores the most points.
R.S.V.P. by Thanksgiving. We're really
hoping you can make the trip.
Hoping to see you and your team.
Sincerely,
R. U. Playing
BOB
Maybe. Maybe not. The rejuvenated
Tar Heels (5-2-1), riding a wave of
success, are downright emphatic with
their huddle-breaking chant: "1-1-91."
And now, with a vote in the Associated
Press weekly Top 25 and a No. 24
ranking in the UPI coaches' poll, there
is actually bowl hysteria well, maybe
not "hysteria" in Chapel Hill.
The UPI ranking marks the first time
since 1 984 that the The Tar Heels have
been rated in that poll. Head coach
Mack B-own said Monday that the
ranking was especially satisfying be
cause it came from other college foot
ball coaches.
"That's a great compliment for this
team," Brown said. "It shows them (the
players) that the coaches who have been
watching them progress on film have
got tremendous respect for what they've
been able to do."
Someone else must think pretty
highly of the Tar Heels' winning efforts
this season, too, because there's a sign
on U.S. Highway 54 between Carrboro
and Chapel Hill announcing the pro
spective date "1-1-91" of this big
gridiron fiesta. And with 19 postseason
bowls scheduled, the Tar Heels have a
legitimate shot at being one of the 38
teams partaking in the festivities.
"I'm not going to say it's in the bag,"
freshman tailback Natrone Means said
after Saturday's 34-10 victory over
Maryland. "I think that we have a pretty
good chance, but these last three games
are going to weigh heavily on the de
cision (of the selection committees)."
But Means and hi&ieammates won't
have it easy, because No. 18 Clemson
(Nov. 3) and No. 1 Virginia (Nov. 10)
are two of the Tar Heels' three remaining
targets. The highly-emotional Nov. 17
Duke game is the last contest of the
season, but the outcome won't have
much bearing on the Tar Heels' bowl
picture since bids will have been sent
out by then. That means UNC will have
to find a way to show its bowl potential
as significant underdogs at Clemson
and at home against UVa.
But where did UNC get this crazy
idea of making it to a bowl game?
According to kicking specialist Clint
G waltney, it might have been linebacker
Bernard Timmons. The subject came
up during offseason workouts, when
the senior asked his teammates where
they wanted to be next season and what
they needed to do to get there.
"We thought, 'We need to be in a
bowl next year. We have the athletic
ability and we have the team pride, so
let's just work hard this whole year and
get it,'" Gwaltney said. "So we broke
down on offseason workouts with 1-1-91.
Hopefully, we're going to achieve
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Record Pvs
1. Virginia (44) 7-0-0 1
2. Notre Dame (6) 6-1-0 3
3. Nebraska (5) 8-0-0 4
4. Auburn (2) 6-0-1 2
5. Illinois 6-1-0 5
6. Houston (2) 7-0-0 6
7. Washington (1) 7-1-0 7
8. Miami, Fla. 5-2-0 8
9. Colorado 7-1-1 10
10. Brigham Young 6-1-0 9
11. Tennessee 4-1-2 11
12. Florida St. 5-2-0 12
13. Iowa 6-1-0 15
14. Texas 5-1-0 13
15. Florida 6-1-0 14
16. Georgia Tech 6-0-1 16
17. Mississippi 7-1-0 17
18. Clemson 7-2-0 19
19. Wyoming 9-0-0 18
20. Michigan 4-3-0 20
21. Southern Cal 6-2-0 21
22. Oregon 6-2-0 25
23. Arizona 6-2-0 23
24. Penn St. 5-2-0
25. Louisville 7-1-1
Others receiving votes: Michigan St. 50,
Ohio St. 38, Texas A&M 37, Oklahoma 29,
Central Michigan 9, Georgia 6, Indiana 5,
Texas Christian 4, North Carolina St. 1.
North Carolina 1, South Carolina 1 . Syra
cuse 1, UCLA 1 .
that goal."
Timmons hopes so, too. The fifth
year senior from Fort Bragg was a
member of the 1 986 Tar Heel team that
lost to Arizona 30-21 in the Aloha Bowl,
and he wants to play in another one
before his college career ends.
"It's been a long time since we've
been back to a bowl, so I just feel that it
would top everything off (for the seniors
and the team) to get a bowl ring and nice
gifts and everything," he said. "We're
still in contention for the ACC cham
pionship, and if we could go out and win
a (bowl) game, they could have (na
tional) rankings for next year."
But ... just what does it take to get a
bowl bid?
Said Citrus Bowl President Butch
von Weller, "Any selection committee
will probably give you the standard
answer, which is that they are looking
for two teams that represent an
intersectional rivalry that will bring you
the biggest television audience."
Von Weller said that in the case of a
Southern bowl, the best scenario would
be to have "a Southern host team playing
against a nationally-ranked team from a
part of the country where there are lots
of television sets."
He also mentioned that a team like
UNC, which has rebounded from two
1-10 seasons, would be an interesting
team to have in a bowl because fans and
alumni would be more apt to travel to
the game to support their team.
For now, though, they will have to be
satisfied supporting the team during the
regular season as it continues its sur
prising drive for a 12th game.
"1-1-91 is still alive in all of our
minds," UNC quarterback Todd Burnett
said. "We just need to go on to next
week and take the next step to getting
better. I think we have a good chance at
a bowl. We do have some tough games
with Clemson, Virginia and Duke, so
we' ve got a lot left to go with the season.
"I don't know with who or where, but
I think we can be somewhere at the
beginning of January."
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Burnett, receivers danced over Terps
By NEIL AMATO
Staff Writer
UNC wide receivers Randall Felton,
Julius Reese and Bucky Brooks stood
in a row Saturday, straddling the 30-
yard line and performing an
unchoreographed and impromptu
victory dance. Of course, they were
celebrating North Carolina s 34-10
pummel ing of ACC foe Maryland,
but this jam for joy was also the I ar
Heels' rite of "passage."
The trio were very much m sync,
as they and fellow pass-catchers Joey
Jauch and Corey Holliday had been
all day, thanks to the throwing of
quarterback Todd Burnett and a wide
open offense that featured a three
wideout formation for most of the
game.
That little show near the student
section end zone wasn't the only time
some of the receiving corps had a ball.
They had one in their hands often
1 8 times in all and did some fooling
around in the meantime.
Todd Burnett completed 23 of 35
passes for 312 yards. All but five of
those tosses went to wideouts Brooks,
Felton, Holliday, Jauch and Reese.
Burnett's yardage was the second
best passing performance in the ACC
this season, and it rejuvenated a Tar
Heel offense that had only managed
151 total yards and 48 yards through
the air against Georgia Tech the pre
vious week. Against the Terps, the
Tar Heels racked up 520 yards, the
most by a North Carolina team since
1989's 533-yard effort in a 49-0
hammering of VMI.
Freshman tailback Natrone Means,
who had four grabs out of the backfield
for 62 yards, summed up Burnett's
show best.
"He was on today," Means said
Saturday. "He was hitting the receiv
ers when they were open. Once he got
in the flow, he just couldn't be
stopped."
But it did take Burnett some time to
groove his game. UNC's first pos
session went the way too many others
have this season: 1) Burnett pass to
Holliday incomplete, 2) Burnett
sacked and 3) Burnett sacked. The
result: fourth down and 17 yards to go
and a Scott McAlister punt.
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Todd Burnett
drive, Burnett began his assault on the
Terrapins. Four straight complete passes
a pair to Reese, one to Holliday and
a leaping snare by Jauch put UNC on
the Maryland 24. But, from there, the
drive fizzled. Means ran for a couple
and Burnett threw in front of Holliday.
Clint Gwaltney's 36-yard field-goal
attempt was wide left, leaving the score
knotted at nil.
In UNC's opening drive of the sec
ond half, with Maryland leading 10-9,
Burnett lit up the Kenan turf with a
strike over the middle to Holliday, who
scampered 57 yards to the Terp 1 7. Two
plays later, On second-and-goal from
the 5, Burnett hit Felton on a quick slant
over the middle to give the Tar Heels
the lead for good.
Burnett, who was 11 -of-14 in the
second half for 1 72 yards, gave credit to
his receivers, especially Holliday. The
redshirt freshman, who caught a career
high seven balls for 134 yards, also
made a stellarcatch on third-and-6 from
the UNC 32, netting 23 yards and leading
to a second-quarter Gwaltney field goal
to put UNC up 9-7.
"You can't say enough about Corey,
as well as all of my receivers," Burnett
said. "Shoot, they ran great routes and
were aggressive. I think some of our
best athletes are receivers."
A Gatorade-drenched UNC head
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Corey Holliday
sure over the m uch-mal igned QB ' s pi ay .
"I was so proud of Todd Burnett
for him to come out and relax and have
the great day he did," he said. "He was
so frustrated last week after playing
well at Wake Forest that he just told
himself, "Today, I'm going to come in
here, and I'm going to play good.' He
enabled us to do some things offensively
that we need to do in order to have a
chance in the next three weeks."
Brown, in fact, may have had a hand
in Burnett's success. First, he let the
Burke, Va., junior throw 35 times, more
than UNC has attempted in any of its
games this year. Second, he let every
one know that if Todd wasn't up to
snuff, sophomore Chuckie Burnette
would replace him.
Burnett played well enough not only
to stay in the game, but to put his name
in the books next to an ex-Tar Heel
great. The 3 1 2 yards put Burnett behind
Mark Maye for single-game passing.
Maye threw for 406 yards in 1 987 and
319 and 316 yards in 1986.
UNC's potent receivers benefited
from the spread-out offense, which fi
nally gave them a shot at proving their
talents.
"It gave us a chance to show our
stuff," Felton said. "We'd been excited
about the three-wide-receiver set all
week. It's something we can do, and I
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Jauch, a sophomore from Vienna,
Va., said the passing game added a
new wrinkle to the Tar Heels' often
dormant offense.
"If you spread them out, they can't
stack as many guys up front," he said.
"That helped us in our short passing
game, and that opens up the run. Be
fore, al 1 we could do was run. Now that,
we started throwing the ball, that;
opened up the run."
Indeed, it did help the run. The Tar
Heels amassed 208 yards on the ground
with Natrone Means accounting for
1 1 1 of those on 25 carries.
Jauch also attributed Burnett's
showing to staying loose and just,
having a good time.
"Against Wake Forest, he was
having fun out there," Jauch said. "I
think he got a little uptight against
State and Georgia Tech, and it threw
him off his rhythm. Today, Todd was
in the huddle and we were joking
around and laughing, and we were
throwing the ball up and down the
field. It was great for us. Todd being
relaxed was one of the keys to our
offensive production today."
Burnett agreed, noting that relaxing
was a key to putting up good numbers.
He said the thought of Burnette re
placing him was in the back of his
mind, but he wasn't troubled by it.
"I don't want to hurt this team," he
said. "We need to do what's best for it
If I'm not doing it, I want to be taken
out. I know what my ability is. I don't
think a lot of people do. I just have to
perform like I know I can."
Burnett also performed flawlessly
off the field in the game's final minute,
conversing with Brown before the
ceremonious Gatorade dumping.
"I was setting him up," he said. "I
put up withhim all week. I was keeping
him busy and talking to him while the
fellas came up behind him. I enjoyed it
thoroughly. I want to get that on tape."
Speaking of post-game soirees;.
Reese explained the receivers on-the
field jig.
"Since we won, we wanted to show
how happy we were, so we got out
there and danced. Randall Felton got it
together. He said," Let's get out there
in a line and dance.'"
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