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DTH Sport Saturday Last Second Pass Who Really Meeds Football Anyway? North Carolina’s program isn’t having much success, so let’s just get rid of it It’s once again that wonderful time of year. The temperature has dropped, creating a deciduous background of reds and dark oranges that eases the mind and slows the very pace of life. The air fills with that distinct wood chip smell, kids - young and old - get a kick out of seeing their breath mate rialize, and squirrels batde each other for tree-trunk dominance. And, like every year, UNC longs, not for the days to become longer or for the return of short sleeves, but for the start of basketball season. You know, this whole football thing just isn’t working out Yeah, North Carolina had it good about three years ago, but such an aberration does not a football program make. Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t one of those get-rid-of-Torbush columns; it’s not even a keep-Torbush-but-make him-defensive-coordinator column. And please don’t confuse this with a why-did-we-let-Mack-Brown-go because-everything’s-gone-downhill- since-he-left-and-now-we-need-a- Bowden column. (Even though I’d love to see Momma Bowden running the Tar Heel sidelines, matching wits with Duke’s Carl Franks.) This, quite simply, is a get-rid-of the-football-program-and-fmd-some- thing-useful-to-occupy-Kenan- Stadium-with column. Kenan Stadium □ North Side GATE 1 First Aid I SOUTH STADIUM BOX 1 | CHANCELLOR'S BOX [ i- m rnllli fi t I o iii * L lz I ‘ m C — J I | in 111111 111 1 M 1 11. 6ATE 8 ga^k^W l GATE 7 GATE 6 n southSide l —lwiH Ca || The Tar Heels can keep Torbush, O’Cain, Curry, Richard Moore, et al, but no more football - please. For instance, why not combine the Carolina Hurricanes with the football program? Couldn’t two apathetic fan bases come together and make one rowdy bunch of sports enthusiasts? Sure, there’s the problem of which sport the athletes would play, but I think hockey’s a no-brainer, eh? It doesn’t matter that the Tar Heels can’t skate. That’s the beauty of the National Hockey League: There’s always room for goons (hockey term). Imagine a scoring line of future Hall of Famer Ron Francis, up-and-comer Bates Battaglia and Julius Peppers. Lodged somewhere between slapstick and intellectual humor, there’s seeing Pep smash some Canadian form boy into four inches of plexiglass. Put Torbush up in the TV booth with slicked-back hair (the Barry Melrose of the South) and just let him say what he wants to. “Well, I feel like they gave then maximum effort out there. Any organ eye-ZA-tion that finishes barely over .500 deserves to make the playoffs.” As far as Kenan goes: “Whose house? Anson’s house!” Let the women’s soccer team take over. Kenan’s a beautiful place; it deserves a championship atmosphere. End Zone Don’t like soccer? Well, let’s turn Kenan into a NASCAR track. We all watch the football team to see it blow up every week anyway. Torbush as Richard Petty. It could work. (Note: Just mentioning stock cars makes me feel dirty. Let’s move on.) How about anew soap opera with the football program as cast and crew? “As the World Turns and Gets Blindsided By an Oncoming Defensive End” DTH Sports Schedule NCAA Football 12:00 p.m. Pittsburgh at Miami (Fla.) Penn State at Michigan Houston at East Carolina Maryland at North Carolina West Virginia at Rutgers Syracuse at Temple 12:10 p.m. Northwestern at lowa Wisconsin at Indiana 12:30 p.m. Alabama at Mississippi State Rhode Island at Connecticut Arkansas at Tennessee 1:00 p.m. Oklahoma at Texas A&M Purdue at Michigan State W. Michigan at Central Michigan N. Illinois at Eastern Michigan Duke at North Carolina State Ball State at Toledo 1:30 p.m. Ohio at Bowling Green UNC Sport Schedule Today Men’s basketball NABC Classic, 6:30 p.m. Cross Country NCAA District 111 Championships in Greenville, S.C. Volleyball at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m. Sunday Men’s Soccer ACC tourna ment at Winston-Salem Women’s Soccer NCAA Tournament at Fetzer Field, 1 p.m. Rowing Rivanna Romp in Charlottesville, Va, Thursday Volleyball ACC tournament in Winston-Salem Swimming Nike Cup in Koury Nadatorium Friday Men’s basketball at Appala chian State, 7:30 p.m. Women’s basketball at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Saturday, November 11, 2000 It’s got a nice ring to it. We’ve already got the soap opera names: Ronald, Bosley, Brandon, etc. It might go a little something like this. Ronald: Damn it, all I ask is for one simple favor! What’s wrong with you? Bosley: Ronald, this is neither the time nor the place... Brandon: 1 heard shouting. What's going on in here? Bosley: Ronald never thinks about MY needs! Vanderbilt at Kentucky 2:00 pan. Texas at Kansas Missouri at Baylor Army at Louisville Cincinnati at Memphis Oklahoma State at Texas Tech 3:00 p.m. S. Florida at Mid. Tennessee State New Mexico at UNLV Utah State at Boise State 3:30 p.m. South Carolina at Florida California at Oregon Boston College at Notre Dame Florida State at Wake Forest Southern Mississippi at UAB lowa State at Colorado 3:35 pun. Fresno State at TCU 4:00 p.m. Ohio State at Illinois 5:00 p.m. North Texas at Arkansas State Jacksonville State at La. Lafayette ICrittttPubj Available! 206 W. Franklin St • 933*9453 Across from Granville Towers • BIG SCREEN SATELLITE SPORTS! • BIG 23 OZ. DRAFT SPECIALS! • GAME DAY CARRY OUT! • AWARD WINNING WINGS & MORE! 5 Free Wings Him ANY 12 Wtt ORDER - OR - 1 FREE REG. BUFFALO CN*> | _ w / any sandwrtdt or buff purchase 1111/>U NOT VALID WITH I W'Wr'ZM' ANY OTHER COUPON y e&r 206 W. Franklin St 15 fMs| By Matt Terry Assistant SkwtSaiuroay Eoiior Yeah, the writing needs work, but I can already smell a Daytime Emmy. The possibilities for post-football life in Chapel Hill are nearly endless. Almost as endless as the potential on an underachieving college football team that is trying as hard as it can to cost its coach his job. But that’s another column. Matt Terry can be reached at mterryl6@email.unc.edu. Arizona State at Stanford 6:00 p.m. Virginia Tech at Central Florida Colorado State at Air Force Navy at Tulane Utah at Wyoming 6:30 pun. Washington State at USC 7:00 pan. UCLA at Washington Nebraska at Kansas State Buffalo at Akron Miami (Ohio) at Marshall La. Tech at Louisiana Monroe Tulsa at SMU 7:30 pan. Georgia at Auburn 9:00 pan. New Mexico State at Idaho LSU at Ole Miss Rice at Texas Ell Paso 10:15 pan. Oregon State at Arizona 11:05 pan. Nevada at Hawaii
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