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Thursday, June 8, 2000
Tar Heels Prepare for Season
Of Change With Enthusiasm
Ronald Curry is not taking
part in football drills yet
but plans to be ready to run
the offense in September.
Mike Ogle
Sports Editor
In an offseason full of questions,
North Carolina’s football team has one
definite answer: The 2000 squad will
have little in common with last year’s
edition.
The changes start at the top with the
coaching staff, part of which brought a
new offense with it. The on-field per
sonnel has changed as well.
Quarterback Ronald Curry said
Tuesday at a football media day at
Kenan Stadium that he expects to be
ready to play when UNC hosts Tulsa on
Sept. 2 despite not participating in
spring practice.
“I’m playing basketball at night,” he
said. “I’m not doing anything football
wise except lifting and some speed work
with the conditioning coach. I feel pret
ty good, some days better than others,
but I feel like the progress is tremen
dous.
“There was never really any doubt in
my mind that I’d be back.”
Curry said he feels 90 percent recov-
2000 North Carolina Football Schedule
The Tar Heels will look to improve on their 3-8 record from 1999 when they open the 2000 season at home against Tulsa on Sept. 2.
Date Opponent Site Time Date Opponent Site Time
Sept. 2 Tulsa Kenan Stadium 6 p.m. Oct. 21 Clemson Kenan Stadium TBA
Sept. 9 at Wake Forest Winston-Salem TBA Oct. 28 at Virginia Charlottesville, Va. TBA
Sept. 16 at Florida State Tallahassee, Fla. TBA Nov. 4 at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa. TBA
Sept, 23 Marshall Kenan Stadium 6 p.m. Nov. 11 Maryland Kenan Stadium TBA
Sept. 30 Georgia Tech Kenan Stadium TBA Nov. 18 at Duke Durham TBA
Oct. 14 N.C. State Kenan Stadium TBA
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ered from his rup
tured Achilles,
which he suffered
at Georgia Tech
on Oct. 9. Coach
Carl Torbush is
convinced Curry
will be ready for
action soon as
well.
“I feel like if we
had a ball game in
two weeks, I
would like to
think that Ronald
would be ready to
play,” Torbush
UNC quarterback
Ronald Curry
ruptured his
Achilles tendon
in an overtime loss
at Georgia Tech.
said. “I don’t know that, but I’ve seen
him around enough to feel like he
should be able to do that.”
Torbush expressed two major con
cerns regarding Curry.
“He’s got to convince himself that he
can take a lick, which he can because
he’s a competitor,” he said.
Torbush also said he needs his junior
quarterback to be able to pick up the
new offense quickly enough to run it
effectively from the season’s beginning.
Both Torbush and new offensive
coordinator Mike O’Cain admitted that
the Tar Heel offense will basically be the
same as what O’Cain ran as the head
man at N.C. State.
“The thing we’ve got to find out
about Ronald is how he’s going to
respond to the option,” O’Cain. “He’s
never really run the option. But he has
all the skills to be able to do it.”
Running backs Daniel Davis and
Domonique Williams are still missing
from the offense due to off-the-field trou
bles. They have been practicing with the
team, but Torbush said UNC had been
preparing as if it would be without them
in the fall.
That could spell trouble for a team that
owned the worst offense in the ACC in
1999. However, Torbush maintained that
the pair could still earn their way back
onto the team by kickoff in September.
One player who is back with the Tar
Heels is fifth-year senior Brandon
Spoon. The linebacker tore a left biceps
tendon at Indiana on Sept, li, and he is
ready to make amends for the 3-8 sea
son that he watched from the sidelines.
“I felt bad last year because I could
separate myself from what happened on
the field because I wasn’t a part of it,”
said Spoon, who will anchor a defense
that returns nine starters.
“I didn’t have to go through what
they did on Saturday and on campus
everyday. The team is a lot stronger
than it was last year because of what
they went through.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
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North Carolina linebacker Brandon Spoon (44) is returning for a fifth season from a bicep injury he suffered
in the second game of the 1999 campaign. He is one of nine defensive starters back for the Tar Heels.
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