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Redshirt freshman Deems May got his first start at quarterback Saturday, with mixed results
Secondary learns hard lesson
COLUMBIA, S.C. Tar Heel
coach Mack Brown has stressed all
along that his young defense would
have to "bend and not break," and
keep away from the big play.
But in their season-opening 31-10
loss Saturday night before 73,275
screaming Gamecocks, the Tar Heels
couldn't help it. Junior quarterback
Todd Ellis went after the Tar Heel
defensive secondary, with his speedy,
scrappy wideouts doing the most
damage after they hauled in his
passes.
. The first big play came at the 6:15
mark of the first quarter. After a
Hamp Greene field-goal attempt fell
short from 52 yards, Ellis moved to
his own 49 with a 14-yard shoe-topper
to Anthony Parlor.
iAfter an incompletion, he lobbed
the ball to 5-foot-9, 175-pound junior
tfght end Carl Plott, who went up
with strong safety Dan Vooletich at .
the 27, picked the ball out of the air, x
wriggled away -from Vooletich and
streaked to the end zone for a 10
0 Gamecock lead. '
After that, the Tar Heels stifled any
further big plays and closed in on
South Carolina 10-7 after a 43-yard
touchdown off a reverse by junior
Randy Marriott.
;But just when Ellis seemed to cool
off, even catching his own batted pass
for an 11-yard loss, the Greensboro
Chris Spencer
Lsst. Sports Editor
native, who is already being touted
as a Heisman Trophy candidate,
turned up the heat, converting some
pivotal conversions with his laser-like
passing.
"The thing that hurt was those
third-down conversions," said Tar
Heel free safety Victor Bullock. "We
would play good on first and second
down, and on third down he (Ellis)
would hit for the big play. That really
hurt us."
Facing a third-and-1 6 from his own
37 right after the Ellis-to-Ellis back
ward completion, he checked off a
play at the line of scrimmage and
mstead sent Parlor on a diagonal to
the right sideline, oneon-one with
Tar Heel junior defensive back Larry
Whiteside, who made his first start
Saturday.
Parlor cradled the perfectly
thrown, 31 -yard pass with Whiteside
all over him at the Tar Heel 32.
Ellis struck again a couple of plays
later on third-and-15. This time, it
was to Parlor's backup, freshman
Robert Brooks, and he caught an Ellis
bullet for a wide-open, 18-yard gain
over the middle to the Tar Heel 18.
"Those conversions were really
big," Bullock said. "We felt if we went
into half time down by three, that
would give us confidence coming out
for the second half. But those two
conversions really hurt us."
In the second half, the Tar Heels
were able to contain the speedy
Gamecock wideouts better.
Ellis cooled off, too, except for a
33-yarder to Green in the third
quarter. That was okay, though,
because Green took over, slashing
and sprinting his way to 100 yarids
on 21 carries and single-handedly
ending any Tar Heel hopes for a
comeback.
COLUMBIA, S.C. That Deems
May had a rocky first outing as North
Carolina's starting quarterback came
as a surprise to no one.
Redshirt freshmen just don't step
in and dominate at the college level,
especially when they're playing the
most important position on the field
and the opponent is one of the fiercest
in the land.
Even the great Bernie Kosar, who
led the University of Miami to the
1983 national title as a redshirt
freshman, looked horrible in his first
game, a 28-3 loss to Florida.
But just because he wasn't sup
posed to succeed doesn't mean May
. wasn't downright steamed about his
lack of success against South
Carolina.
"I could have played 100 percent
better," May, said, after playing all
but the last two offensive series
Saturday in UNC's 31-10 loss to the
19th-ranked Gamecocks. "I wasn't
nervous; I wasn't uptight. I just didn't
hit them when I had to, and we didnt
convert the third downs when we
needed to."
On the evening, May went 13-for-34
passing for 121 yards. He was
sacked once for a loss of seven yards.
While those numbers were cer
tainly unimpressive, May's receivers
deserve a portion of the blame, too.
Of May's 21 incompletions, nearly
half could be classified as dropped
balls.
That fact wasnt lost on UNC coach
Mack Brown, who made the decision
early last week to start May over more
experienced junior Jonathan Hall.
"For a young, inexperienced fresh
man that hasn't played in a college
ballgame before, against one of the
top four defenses in the country,
Deems did a good job," Brown said.
"We knew he was inexperienced
coming into the game. But I thought
Deems handled the blitz really well
most of the night. We think Deems
is going to be a good football player."
The 6-foot-5, 220-pounder hails
from Lexington High School, where
Mike Berardino
Sports Editor
he earned Parade All-American
honors as a junior before a knee
injury caused him to miss most of
his senior season. He sat out last
season and watched as the highly
touted Mark Maye struggled to fulfill
the massive expectations people had
for him.
The expectations are much more
modest for May, who besides sharing
the same phonetic surname as last
year's quarterback bears an alarming
resemblance to Maye, now a backup
for the NFL's Tampa Bay
Buccaneers.
But even if the public's perception
of May's ability is reasonable, the self
expectations of the man himself can
sometimes be overburdening.
"I put a lot of pressure on myself
to complete every pass out there,"
May said. "I got a little mad at myself.
I had a few drops, but most of the
time it was my fault.
"It seemed like we'd get going, we'd
get a few first downs, and then we'd
just stop. We'd always have a couple
bad plays that hurt us. A dropped
pass here, a bad pass there. That kind
of stymied the offense."
Despite the fact he was able to
direct the offense to just 10 points
against the Gamecocks, May's team
mates were impressed with the way
he handled himself.
"I think he played pretty well,
picking up the blitzes and stunts," said
Darrell Hamilton, UNC's senior
offensive tackle. "A few times guys
were right in his face and he still got
the ball off, sometimes for comple
tions. I think he played like a
seasoned veteran. He didn't look like
it was his first game.
One of the most important com
ponents of a quarterback's leadership
skills is his ability to control the
offensive huddle. For it is in that circle
of 11 men, meeting before each play
to briefly map out strategy, that the
great quarterbacks win their team
mates' respect.
According to Hamilton, May has
already done that.
"The quarterback has to be the
leader, and he stood up to that,"
Hamilton said of May. "A couple
times, when other guys were talking
in the huddle, he'd tell them to be
quiet because it's his huddle. He has
great poise, that's what I like about
him."
The one thing people have to
remember about May's Saturday
showing is this: it was his first "live"
action in almost two full years.
When asked how it felt to be back
on the field, leading a team and
shrugging off the hits of enemy
defenders, May smiled.
"I had fun; I liked being back out
there," he said. "I Ve just got to be
better, I didn't perform as well as I'd
like. I don't like losing."
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