ECU-UNC
FROM PAGE 13
tive, and he agrees.
“I think it will be a great football game and
great for the state of North Carolina,” he said.
“Adding a quality program like North Carolina to
our schedule really adds to our football program.”
Hamrick also indicated that the Pirates are
planning games with national programs such as
Kentucky, Virginia Tech and Miami, in addition
to a series with N.C. State.
Not everybody is excited about the upcoming
series. UNC head coach Mack Brown, who said
he did not have any input in the decision to play
East Carolina, does not like the idea.
“You would’ve rather not played another rival
in North Carolina,” Brown said, “because you
have so many now.”
The East Carolina matchup, Brown said, just
adds another pressure-filled game against a non
conference opponent.
“Everybody we play wants to beat Carolina so
badly,” Brown said, “and now' W'e’re adding an
other one, because East Carolina’s biggest game
will be against North Carolina.”
Brown said some programs are taking the easy
way to national prominence by loading up on
smaller schools, the so-called “creampulfs” that
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Kelly McCall helped the UNC women's
golf team finish third last weekend.
LINEBACKERS
FROM PAGE 6
given to the nation’s most outstanding linebacker.
He attributes much of his success to Mason,
Mock and Morton, who taught him the funda
mentals and how to effectively use his height.
‘James is by far the most experienced of the
three,” defensive coordinator Carl Torbush said.
“He has really gotten bigger, runs really well for a
guy as tall as he is. In the past he’s been a tall rangy
JONES
FROM PAGE 7
beefed upJones, but becoming a more intimidat
ing blocker required more than brawn from the
junior. Thus Jones received tutelage from DeLong
and has applied those lessons to game situations.
“Greg is an explosive blocker, and blocking is
one thing that I lacked when I came here,” Jones
said. “He has a lot of good techniques that he uses,
and that’s basically what he showed me.”
Life is not all fun and games forjones and his
mates. At times, tight end is a thankless position
that imposes double duty on the player. Brown,
though, places the tight ends in high regard.
“It’s a hard place to play, because you have to
have the personality of a lineman on some plays
pad a school’s win column and stat sheet. East
Carolina, he said, does not fall into that category.
“A lot of (teams) now are playingout-of-confer
ence schedules that are relatively weak, so their
conference (schedule) takes on most of the pres
sure,” he said. “If they win their conference games,
that gives them a chance to be nationally ranked.
East Carolina poses a problem because they’re a
good football team.
“Personally, as I said, I would rather not play
the game.”
Swofford, who said last month that North
Carolina would soon be announcing home-and
home series with programs from schools from the
Big 12, Pac-10 and Big 10, said the addition of
ECU to the schedule should not dramatically
impact those plans.
“The only efTect it has,” he said, “is that in those
two years we’re playing East Carolina, it knocks
out our opportunity to play an intersectional
game.
“We feel very good about where we are in
terms of football scheduling. In the reasonably
near feature we’ll be announcing a lot of those
upcoming games, and it will give us a good na
tional flavor in termsof teams that we’ll be playing
on a home-and-home basis.”
Both Swofford and Hamrick said that at this
point there were no plans to extend the East
Carolina series past 2003.
WOMEN'S GOLF
FROM PAGE 11
Philo and McCall. Though a three-under 33 on the back
nine propelled the Auburn junior to the 36-hole lead, the
final holes were not kind to Clemons on Sunday.
Clemons parred the 18th, and by the time McCall and
Philo walked onto the 18th hole, both needed virtual
miracles to force the playoff after Clemons’ clutch chips.
McCall had to hole out her second shot, a nearly impos
sible feat. Philo, meanwhile, had the opportunity to gain
the tie, but her chip rolled about three feet from the hole.
Meanwhile, McCall was finishing a fantastic weekend
in less-than-superb style. The junior had only qualified for
fifth on the Tar Heel squad but scorched Finley the first
two days, playing below par for all but the front nine on
Saturday. Yet McCall was not completely satisfied.
“Actually, I’m pretty disappointed,” McCall said. “I
was second going into (Sunday) and didn’t play that well.”
Indeed, UNC’s third-place finish at the Invitational
represents a huge improvement over the squad’s perfor
mance at the season-opening Fall Preview tournament.
“It is a good comeback,” Austin said. “We didn’t play
nearly to capability in the Fall Preview. My goal for the
team is to shoot what we’re capable of shooting. This was
more indicative of our capabilities.”
guy who did most of his damage because of
athletic ability. I think now he’s become a com
plete linebacker.”
The threesome has quickly garnered success,
but the attention has yet to arrive for them and the
rest of the top-rated defense.
“We are a young defense, and a bunch of no
namerson defense,” defensive lineman Greg Ellis
said. “Because that’s what everybody is calling us,
a bunch of r.o-namers.”
That could change with a victory against Vir
ginia.
and a reciever’s personality on others,” he said.
“They really have to have a diverse personality.
It’s hard going from blocking a guy like Greg Ellis
to being like Octavus Barnes in running and
catching outside,” he said.
Brewster has not observed passively as the tight
ends have grown to their present stature. Far from
it in fact, he issued Jones no small challenge
before the season got underway.
“I’m not asking Freddie to be good,” Brewster
said. “I’m asking him to be dominant. I’m asking
him to be the best tight end in the ACC right now."
Judging from the tight ends UNC has pro
duced over the years, that’s not an absurd request.
“The past couple of tight ends I’ve had here
have gone on to the NFL,” Brewster said. “I feel
like we’ve started a little tradition here at the
position.”
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