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Davis-led Tar Heels
building up for future
New era begins
for UNC football
BY MIKE EHRLICH
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Entering the 2007 season, there
was something abuzz surrounding
the North Carolina training camp,
something that hasn’t been seen in
Chapel Hill in years: optimism for
the future of the football program.
And this newfound optimism
arrived along with and largely
because of anew head coach with
big-time experience. Butch Davis,
who had a successful coaching career
at Miami before moving up to the
NFLs Cleveland Browns, returned to
the college game this year at UNC.
And with him he brought a staff
rich in NFL experience and a tal
ented recruiting class featuring a
number of blue-chippers.
But along with all the good feel
ings also came a little bit contro
versy. Rumors began to circulate
midseason that Davis could pos
sibly to leave UNC to return to his
alma mater and coach Arkansas.
In the end, Davis opted to
remain in Chapel Hill, at least for
a little longer. After the season, he
accepted a one-vear contract exten
sion through 2014 worth $291,000
annually.
Close-game woes lead to
4-8 record
Even with Davis, the Tar Heels
still managed just one more win
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North Carolina wideout Brandon Tate brushes off a Miami defender during
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battling to be done for North
Carolina. It was a different feel
ing for these Tar Heels, who were
always too focused on the next
barrier to stop and look back at
how far they’d truly come this
season.
‘lt meant the world because
there’s always that doubt in your
head,” Dawson said. ‘That seed of
doubt that says, ‘Maybe you’re just
not able to. Maybe you’re just not
cut out to do it Maybe it’s just not
meant for you.’
“The fact that it did whew. I’m
happy now."
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their minds and ended 2007 with
just one loss between them— an
83-79 loss when the women's team
visited top-ranked Tennessee.
The men’s team spent most of the
end 0f2007 blowing out opponents
en route to a No. 1 national ranking
and an undefeated record.
However, neither team ended
the year completely unscathed.
On the women’s side, senior
point guard Alex Miller went down
for the season against Coppin State
in November. Freshmen Cetera
DeGrafienreid and Italee Lucas filled
in, and the tandem leads the team in
assists with 55 and 49, respectively.
The men’s team was beleaguered
by injuries, as well. Bobby Frasor’s
season ended early when he tore
a ligament in his left knee against
Nevada. Frasor's injury, combined
with Quentin Thomas' ankle sprain,
left the Tkr Heels with their once
formidable bench looking skimpy.
*1 feel like we’ve got six start
ers ... but the seventh, eighth and
ninth guys, we've lost them during
the last couple of weeks,” Williams
said. ‘lt’s been a little difficult, but
that’s the reason you try to have
more than five or six players.”
It will remain to be seen how these
injuries affect either Tkr Heel squad's
chances of redeeming last year's
NCAA mishaps. The only thing cer
tain is that a degree of difficulty has
been added for future success.
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“Its the springboard
that helps you get
into recruiting
and into (the)
offseason
BUTCH DAVIS, on beating duke
than the 2006 campaign and a 3-5
conference slate. But even with the
eight losses, UNC stuck with most
of its opponents it just couldn't
win the close ones. Six of those
eight losses were by seven points
or less, including four tight ACC
defeats.
The highlight of the year came
in a 33-27 victory against Miami,
in which the Tar Heels jumped out
early and held off a second-half
'Cane rally to preserve the win. It
was one of the few times all year
UNC was able to effectively put an
opponent away in a tightly con
tested battle.
Skilled trio emerge as
playmakers
The strongest play for the Tar
Heels came from the skill positions.
Sophomore standout wide receiver
Hakeem Nicks amassed 74 catches
for 958 receiving yards and caught
five touchdowns. His 6.2 recep
tions per game ranked third in the
conference, and his 79-8 yards per
game was good for second.
The past season also marked the
development of junior Brandon
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Key returners
for 2008
Defensive tackle Marvin
Austin (returning as sophomore)
► Named first-team freshman
All-America by scoirt.com and
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Safety Deunta Williams
(returning as sophomore)
► Named first-team freshman
All-America by scout.com and
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Wide receiver Hakeem
Nicks (returning as junior)
► Set UNC single-season record
for receptions with 74
Wide receiver Brandon
Tate (returning as senior)
* Emerged as a receiving threat
with five touchdowns to go along
with return skills
Tate as a threat who can affect the
game more than merely on special
teams. Long regarded as a threat to
score on punt and kickoff returns,
Tate notched 25 receptions in 2007
five of which went for touch
downs.
Tailback was a big question
mark for the 2007 Tar Heels. Davis
used a running back-by-committee
system for most of the season until
freshman Greg Little took over the
role at the end. Little, recruited as
a wide receiver, gained 243 rush
ing yards in the last two games and
scored the game-winning touch
down in overtime against Duke in
the finale.
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BY MATTHEW PRICE
STAFF WRITER
When UNC ushered in the new
year, it marked the end of the
Carolina First Campaign, an eight
year, $2.3 billion fundiraiser.
From its July 1999 beginning.
Carolina First collected more
than $2.3 billion in pledges and
donations for the University
before it ended Dec. 31, giving
UNC the llth-largest fundraising
campaign in the history of higher
education.
The campaigns $2 billion goal,
which was increased from $l.B
billion in 2005, was reached in
February when Dennis and Joan
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“We don’t have all the final num
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vice chancellor for University
advancement. “There was a lot
of holiday giving, and we’re still
counting the last dollars."
Carolina First set goals in sev
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strategic initiatives. The pro
gram also created undergradu
ate scholarships and graduate
fellowships and added money to
the University’s endowment.
After surpassing the $2 billion
mark, officials added an extra SIOO
million goal to faculty salaries and
support.
But UNC fell short of raising
that extra money during the cam
paign.
Although the campaign did not
satisfy- every objective, some noted
that the final year was stronger
than expected.
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An unofficial final tally of Carolina First
After about eight years, the Carolina First campaign raised $2.33 billion by its
Dec. 31,2007, end date, though not every group reached its fundraising goal
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this graph just kept going up."
The program came close to
meeting stated goals in most cases
and surpassed stated objectives for
research and strategic initiative
fundraising.
Officials said that fundraising
for important issues would not
stop just because the Carolina
First Campaign is finished.
‘Even though this campaign
is over, we will continue to make
faculty support and salaries a top
priority," Kupec said.
Dunn also stressed the impor
tance of continued fundraising.
“A lot of money raised during
the campaign comes to be expected
by departments," Dunn said. “Un
met goals allow you to go back to
donors and say that there is still
work to be done."
Dunn said fundraising pro
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categories such as faculty sala
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“We wouldn’t say that we
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she said.
Overall, the 2007 fiscal year set
a record for donations to UNC,
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gifts and pledges. The 2008 fiscal
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so far.
Dunn said this year is on pace
and has potential to equal or sur
pass last year, even without the
Carolina First Campaign.
"You have to look at it like
Roy Williams," she said. “We’re
not going to relax our game just
because we had a good season.
We re just going to play for even
better scores in the future."
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