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DTH SPORTSATURDAY | 10/11/08 SPORTSATURDAY STAFF MIKE EHRLICH SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR DAVID REYNOLDS. LOUIE HORVATH ASSISTANT SPORTSATURDAY EDITORS JILLIAN NADELL, MOLLY JAMISON SPORTSATURDAY DESIGN EDITORS ALLISON NICHOLS DAILY TAR HEEL EDITOR scon POWERS SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS EDITOR RACHEL ULLRICH DTH SPORTS EDITOR POWELL LATIMER, DANIEL PRICE, JOE MCLEAN ASSISTANT DTH SPORTS EDITORS EMMA PATTI DTH PHOTO EDITOR CONTRIBUTOR: DAVID ELY PRODUCTION MANAGER: Stacy Wynn BUSINESS AND ADVERTISING: Kevin Schwartz, direaor/generat manager, Megan McGinity, advertising direc tor; Lisa Rekhle, business manager; Rosanne Niforos, retail sales manager; Kate Polichnowski, assistant business manager. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Kristen Bullins, Nate Hewitt and Amanda Lathom, representatives. DISPLAY ADVERTISING. Lauren Ahlschlager, Lauren Baum, Catherine Coley, Chris Creech, Lauryn D'Angelo, Blake Ervin, Katherine Fitzpatrick, Mackenzie Gibbs, Kaittyn Jordan, Luke Un, Megan Ratdrffe, Jenna Tenace, Megan Winterhalter and Caldwell Zimmerman, account executives; Dane Barnes, marketing associate. ADVERTISING PRODUCTION: Penny Persons, manager Beth O'Brien, ad production coordinator. DTH Sport Saturday is published by the DTH Publishing Corp., a non profit North Carolina corporation, on home football Saturdays. Advertisers should call 962-1163 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. Editorial questions should be directed to 962-0245. Office: Suite 2409 Carolina Union Campus Mail: CB# 5210 Box 49, Carolina Union U.S Mail: P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3257 Cover photo: DTH FILE/Eric Velarde During the Week... Monday 7:00 am Monday Press Conference with Coach Davis Tuesday 7:00 PM Butch Davis LIVE Thursday 7:00 PM The official kickoff with Jeff Hamlin THE MOST COMPLETE COVERAGE OF UNC FOOTBALL ON THE AIR! The times, they are a changin’ What is this feeling sweep ing around campus? North Carolina never was a football school. And it still isn’t yet. Sure, the football team was good under Mack Brown back in the day, and Julius Peppers is still piling up the sacks for the Panthers. But you’d be hard pressed to say that at any point those teams were more important to the cam pus than the Tar Heels of the hardwood. Ask Joakim Noah and his Florida Gators teammates. Twice they beat every team put in front of them in the NCAA Tournament but couldn’t upstage the football team on their own campus. Looking for a more relevant example? Try Roy Williams’ ex-employers. Kansas has a football squad ranked No. 16 in the AP Top 25, but they are still No. 2 in Jayhawk fans’ hearts. But here’s the only fact that keeps me from proclaiming North Carolina a basketball school for eternity: In recent memory, the football Tar Heels have not been this good. That includes when they only lost one game all season in 1997 and fin ished ranked No. 6 in the country. Their lone win over a ranked team in the final AP poll was a 16-13 win over DELAY OF GAME I ©| LOUIE HORVATH THE CHAMP IS HERE Georgia Tech. The other ranked team they played? Florida State, who trounced them 20-3. The Gator Bowl that year was also the first game coached by Carl Torbush. Nothing against him, but I’d rather have Mack Brown. Then there was John Bunting. (Contemplating a rant. Contemplating. Nah, what’s done is done. I guess I’ll leave it in the past.) Fast-forward to today. This team, led by a nucleus of sopho mores and Brandon Tate, is just one uncharacteristic quarter against Virginia Tech from being the ACC Coastal lead ers. Think about last week’s amazing wave at Kenan. That in itself shows how far the football program has come. aJmSmBT Kick-off at 3:3opm Gameday Lineup Pre-Game 12:30pm Countdown to Kick Off with Ron Stutts 1:30 pm Off the Top Sports, Live from Top of the Hill 2:30 pm Tar Heel Sports Network Pre-Game Post-Game 6:3opm Tar Heel Sports Network Post-Game Show 7:3opm Ham’s Postgame Party KICKOFF Being part of a 60,000-person wave, spawned from absolute boredom, was special for all involved. It seemed as if no one left their seats. A longer lightning delay against McNeese State earlier this season thinned out the entire stands as people fled the stadium and didn’t bother to come back. Now, on national television, with the team about to score a big win over a then-Top 25 team in Connecticut, no one could be bothered with a little lighting malfunction. That showed how important being there for the game was for those in the stands. As an assistant Sport Saturday editor, I almost feel cheated from the whole “making a Sport Saturday for a game that is pretty inconsequential for everyone involved” experience of years past. Almost. We are now fully entrenched in a bright new age of Tar Heels football. My words of wisdom for Butch if he wants to usurp (or at least discreetly steal a little bit of sway from) Roy: Keep it up, because everyone loves a winner. Contact Louie Horvath at slhorvat@email.unc.com. 3
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