VOLUME 114, ISSUE 96
BUNTING FACES THE MUSIC
BY DANIEL MALLOY
SENIOR WRITER
Larry Edwards didn’t want to
let go.
As John Bunting left the news
conference to announce his fir
ing, Edwards embraced his coach
and held on tight, whispering in
Bunting’s ear —one linebacker to
another.
Bunting and his assistant coach-
es had con
soled the team
Sunday night,
after Athletics
Director Dick
Baddour told
the coach he
would remain
for the final
five games
of the season
but would not
return in 2007-
INSIDE
Students and
alumni react
to the head
coach's firing.
Column: Blame
also should be
on Baddour's
shoulders.
PAGE 11
Monday morning, it was
Edwards’ turn to console.
“Coach Bunting and his staff
helped us become better people
that we are today,” Edwards said,
flanked by fellow seniors Brian
Chacos and Ronnie McGill.
“Hearing the news they’re not
going to be back next year, it really
hurt me.”
Bunting’s character was brought
up repeatedly Monday by his play
ers and Baddour.
But in the end, the coach’s 25-
42 record, including 1-6 so far this
season, was enough for Baddour to
justify a regime change.
Bunting repeatedly asserted
this season that the program was
going in the right direction cit
ing improvements in recruiting and
the fact that a great majority of the
freshman class is red-shirting.
But those reasons weren’t
enough to keep his job.
“Not everything do John and I
agree on,” Baddour said.
“We are a bit, or a lot, in a num
bers game. Wins and losses and
productivity and assessing where
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CITY EDITOR
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Monday weren’t there to stargaze.
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State fair ends on high note
BY BRENDAN BROWN
STAFF WRITER
Oversized pumpkins, innovative fuel and a safe
midway helped make this year’s state fair one of the
most successful in its history.
The fair, which closed Sunday,
ran safely and successfully
despite occasional poor weather,
officials said.
“We pride ourselves on being a
family-friendly and safe feir, and
we think we delivered that,” fair
spokesman Brian Long said.
Giant fruits and vegetables,
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est crowd in the fair’s history.
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days of rain is pretty good,” Long said.
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of the 2005 feir, Long said. He predicted that total rev-
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North Carolina head coach John Bunting listens as Athletics Director Dick Baddour addresses the media concerning Bunting's dismissal, which will
come at the end of the season. Bunting expressed gratitude toward his friends and players, and said he doesn't know if he'll coach another team.
things are headed. To suffice it
to say, I felt like we needed anew
direction.”
Though he was the only
University official at the news con
ference, Baddour consulted others
when making the decision.
Throughout the season, the
ninth-year athletics director was in
contact with Nelson Schwab, chair
man of the Board of Trustees, as
well as other trustees. Those conver
sations intensified after Thursday’s
23-0 loss at Virginia, along with the
outcry from fans and media.
“There had been so much focus
on the coaching position that it
was to the detriment of the football
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program,” Schwab said in a phone
interview Monday evening.
“We felt the timing would give
the program, the players and
the coaches time to focus on the
remainder of the season with
some clarity.”
But for the players, it makes the
rest of the season difficult, playing
with the additional distraction of
a lame-duck coach.
“Nobody really saw this happen
ing right now during the middle
of the season,” McGill said. “Prom
the whole players’ standpoint, it’s
just shocking and a little bit fhis
trating that it happened now.”
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HEAD TO HEAD
U.S. Congress candidates David
Price and Steve Acuff face off
on campus in their second
debate, discussing issues
including the war in Iraq.
news was met with joy.
“This should have been done a
long time ago,” said Matt Gers, a
2005 graduate and co-founder of
firebunting.com.
And with site’s original aim now
accomplished, Gers is contemplat
ing directing his ire elsewhere.
“I think Dick Baddour is floating
on the line here,” he said. “We’ll see
how the coaching search goes.”
Baddour was vague Monday
when asked about the search.
“Together we will start focusing
on the future,” Baddour said.
“We will use the efforts of Chuck
SEE BUNTING, PAGE 11
Center fights political tilt
BY LINDSAY MICHEL
SENIOR WRITER
After catching wind that U.S.
Sen. John Kerry’s running mate
was hired by UNC to run a research
center, Jon Sanders was skeptical.
Sanders, a policy analyst and
research editor for the John
Locke Foundation, believes in
the importance of nonpartisan
research at public universities.
And he is not certain that John
Edwards, director of the UNC
Center on Poverty, Work and
Opportunity and a former U.S.
senator, has
successfully
fulfilled that
mission.
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picion is that
(Edwards) and
the University
of North
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“And Senator Edwards is naturally
running for president in 2008 and
is in need of a pet issue.”
As with many discussions
concerning hot-button issues
in America today, the poverty
debate has become increasingly
blue and red.
That has led many to question
whether the center can approach
poverty in a nonpartisan way
under Edwards’ leadership.
That kind of criticism is not
foreign to the center’s staff or to
Edwards, who said he has not yet
decided to run for president
Attempting to put his opposi
tion in its place, Edwards often
spouts off what could be consid
ered his new mantra: There is
nothing partisan about poverty.
‘I have a fundamental belief
that this is not a partisan issue,”
he said.
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AN OPEN BOOK
Tim Crothers is set to talk about
his biography of UNC women's
soccer head coach Anson
Dorrance, ‘"The Man Watching,'
today in Hamilton 100.
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Senior offensive lineman Brian Chacos responds to questions about his
embattled coach, saying he's disappointed that the team let Bunting down.
Edwards said he hopes to bring
scholars and practitioners from all
political persuasions to fuel debate
and fight for human rights.
“What we want to do is marry
all of these ideas,” he said.
“That’s the way you’re credible
when you’re trying to speak to the
whole country in a bipartisan way.”
Despite his criticism, Sanders
said he thinks poverty can be
approached objectively.
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this day in history
OCT. 24,1919
The Carolina Playmakers holds
its first ‘'caper,' making fun of
a production from the previous
year and topping off the event
with a party.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006
Bunting's
time at UNC
2000
Dec 11: Named
UNC's 24th head coach
2001
Dec. 31: Beats
Auburn in Peach Bowl
2004
Oct. 30: Upsets
Miami at Homecoming
Nov. 20: Awarded
two-year contract
extension
2006
Sept. 23: Loses 52-7
at Clemson
Oct. 19: Loses 23-0
at Virginia
“I think certainly you can,” said
Sanders, an economist by training.
“That’s not an issue that either lends
itself to Democrat or Republican,
and it certainly is an issue that can
and should be studied.”
When Thomas Kaplan, associate
director of programs and manage
ment at the Institute for Research
on Poverty at the University of
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