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August 27, 2001 | General
Saturday, August 25, 2001
FB: Heels' Line Upfront About Big Task
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
It would seem the easiest of tasks, at least mentally. Bend over. Stare down the large man in front of you. Listen for a call. Then thrust your own body weight -- be it 260 or 280 or 300 pounds -- directly into the man, pushing him aside. That's what it looks like from the stands. The offensive lineman's job might be physically the most demanding in football. But mentally, it's got to be the easiest, right?...
FB: Heels-Sooners a Showdown of Two Intense Coaches
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
NORMAN, Okla. -- John Bunting's first North Carolina team ran around, caught passes and kicked field goals on the grass of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Friday afternoon, continuing the football curriculum Bunting laid out when he was hired eight months ago...
FB: UNC Spinning Bunting's Ties, Passion for Game
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina football fans knew about Frank Beamer. They knew about the offer, the apparent acceptance and the eventual rejection...
FB: Bunting Isn't Afraid of Failure
Charlotte Observer/By Scott Fowler
One of John Bunting's first acts as North Carolina's new football
coach was to schedule a nice little field trip for his players...
FB: Dangerous Debut
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
NORMAN, Okla. -- The day was Sept. 20, 1969, and John Bunting, a 19-year-old linebacker, played in his first varsity football game for North Carolina...
Friday, August 24, 2001
FB: Booming Sooners
Raleigh News & Observer/By Chip Alexander
NORMAN, Okla. -- They're talking football down at Bob's "World Famous" BBQ, a dining spot near the Oklahoma campus where the beef briskets are tasty and those ordering Texas toast might be told "feel free to chew it up as much as you like." They're talking football at the Sooner Schooner Store on Lindsey Street, where every conceivable knick-knack has that wine-red "OU" brand and freshly printed T-shirts proclaim: "National
Champions -- It's not how good you are, it's how BAD
you want it."...
FB: UNC Opens Era With No. 1 Challenge
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
The call came in January. Doug Brown, ESPN's director
of programming for college football, was looking for a
team willing to play Oklahoma, college football's reigning
national champion. The nationally televised game would
be Aug. 25, a full week before most college football
teams begin their seasons, and on the Sooners' home
turf in Norman, Okla...
FB: UNC-Oklahoma Doesn't Bring Back Pleasant Memories For Heels
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
It wasn't pretty when the stakes were high the last time, that's for sure...
FB: Hybl Ready To Make His Name Known
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
The guy says golly, for gosh sakes. But don't take Nate Hybl's speech patterns for back-country naivet?. By all accounts,
Hybl is ready to be the starting quarterback for defending national champion
Oklahoma. He is bigger and stronger than Josh Heupel, who engineered the
Sooners' perfect 2000 season...
FB: Sooners A Stiff Test For Heels
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
Out of context, it doesn't sound so good...
FB: UNC To begin Pahse One Of Rebuilding Program Saturday
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
North Carolina's football team has experienced the first phase of Coach John Bunting's plans for
rebuilding the school's football program and now must move to the next, which could prove much more
difficult...
Thursday, August 23, 2001
FB: Everything Left Me
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- The tears didn't start to flow right away,
but they came. Freely, like his family had never seen
before. Willie Parker was in his dorm room at North
Carolina, and this wasn't supposed to happen. When
you're 20 years old, you're just not supposed to have to
sit there late at night, wide awake, and take this kind of
news. Your best friend was driving in your hometown.
Your best friend has been shot. Your best friend is
dead...
FB: Kicker Sprains Ankle
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina place-kicker Jeff Reed
has struggled with lower-back problems through much of
preseason practice. Wednesday, just three days before
the Tar Heels take on No. 3 Oklahoma (7:45 p.m.,
ESPN), his problems got much worse...
FB: Speed Big Need For UNC
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
Granted, it amounts to a leap of faith that might impress
Michael Jordan. But with my favorite time of the year at
hand -- the start of college football games -- I'm prepared
to believe a lot of what is being said by those North
Carolina players who suddenly have the enthusiasm of a
school of starving bluefish...
FB: UNC's Line: Growing Up Fast
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- John Bunting had one position group in mind when he agreed more
than six months ago to play at defending national champion Oklahoma...
Ford Happy With His Life, But He Misses Basketball
Charlotte Observer/By Scott Fowler
CHAPEL HILL -- Phil Ford has never dunked a basketball. Not once. At 6-foot-2, he
never could jump high enough...
Wednesday, August 22, 2001
FB: Bunting Ready To Calm Down
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
When John Bunting really wants to relax, he heads to
the little lake house he owns in Maine, down that dirt
road no one's ever heard of an hour west of Portland,
and heads to the back porch...
FB: Huard Leaving UNC Program
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Quarterback Luke Huard, on track to graduate in May, has decided
not to rejoin the UNC football team despite having two years of eligibility remaining...
FB: David Versus Goliath? Bunting's Been There
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- Football coaches are really a lot alike. They compare records and
salaries, often talk about each other and, for the most part, they like to rekindle a
fond memory...
FB: Tar Heels Undaunted in Trek To Oklahoma
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- No, John Bunting and his players said, he was not silly for wanting to open
his North Carolina football coaching career at Oklahoma. He was silly for asking anybody's
opinion about it in the first place...
FB: Bunting Works To Instill New Spirit, Attitude in Carolina Football
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
John Bunting returned to his alma mater on a mission, which is to breathe new life into a sagging football
program...
FB: Tar Heels Start Season By Taking On College Football's Best
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- The North Carolina football team will start at the top Saturday in its opening game and
work its way down from there...
FB: UNC's Hopes On Line - A Young Line
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- Defending national champion Oklahoma had the country's eighth-rated
defense last season, and co-defensive coordinator Mike Stoops says it could be
better this season. Definitely, he says, it should be faster...
FB: A Dream: UNC Kicker Looks Ahead To Oklahoma
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
The images keep running through Jeff Reed's mind. Only a few seconds remain in North Carolina's season opener against Oklahoma on Saturday. UNC is
down by two points when Reed, the kicker, comes out on the field and hits a game-winning field goal...
FB: Pressure On UNC Line
Associated Press/By Dave Droschak
CHAPEL HILL -- John Bunting had a master plan to get his young offensive line to mature --
play an extra game, get an extra week of practice and play against the best...
OKLAHOMA: Hybl, Mike Stoops Handle Rush Of Game Week Queries
Daily Oklahoman/By George Schroeder
NORMAN -- Nate Hybl leaned against a wall outside the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of
Natural History on Tuesday...
OKLAHOMA: OU Notes
Daily Oklahoman/By George Schroeder
North Carolina coach John Bunting has done a double-take on former punter Blake Ferguson...
Tuesday, August 21, 2001
FB: Shuffling Heels
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina released its depth chart
Monday, and though it looks about like what most would
expect, that doesn't mean there wasn't some tweaking
going on over the weekend...
FB: Stoops Wants No Daydreaming
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
Don't bother asking Bob Stoops if he's still dreaming. He's not...
FB: Oklahoma! Where The Wins Come Sweeping Down The Plains
High Point Enterprise/By Steve Phillips
ob Stoops arrived at Oklahoma in the winter of 1999 hoping to rebuild a crumbled college football dynasty. He wound up drawing a blueprint for the quick fix...
OKLAHOMA: Jim Tatum: OU's Vain Attraction
Daily Oklahoman/By Bob Hersom
NORMAN -- Jim Tatum was as big and blunt as his considerable ego...
OKLAHOMA: Give Carter a Chance, Hybl Does
Daily Oklahoman/By Jenni Carlson
NORMAN -- Nate Hybl, recently appointed Oklahoma's starting quarterback, spoke glowingly of
the other quarterback...
Monday, August 20, 2001
FB: Durant's Bad Break A Good Break For Tar Heels
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- Sometimes the twists and turns of fate can be almost literal. When Darian
Durant suffered a break, the North Carolina Tar Heels caught one...
OKLAHOMA: It's Not Just Game Of Catch For Receivers
Daily Oklahoman/By John Rohde
NORMAN -- If Steve Spurrier Jr. were a basketball coach, he'd need five basketballs on the court
to keep his players happy...
Sunday, August 19, 2001
FB: Three QBs to See
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- It was a typical scene at North Carolina
practice last week. Ronald Curry dropped back to pass
and looked downfield. He heaved the ball, a perfect
spiral that fell softly over the shoulder of receiver Bosley
Allen...
FB: Guesswork For OU
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Certainly, North Carolina has plenty of challenges in
preparing for next Saturday's season-opener against
defending national champion Oklahoma...
FB: Peppers: Small Town, Big Talent
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
AILEY -- Just like traffic in this tiny town, Julius Peppers runs on his own schedule.
Vehicles on U.S. 264 zip through the town limits in seconds, zooming past the exit
for the Country Doctor Museum at 70 mph...
FB: Will Heels Be the Hammer or the Nail
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- The time has arrived for North Carolina to open the 2001 football season, and there is
no logical reason to think the defending national champion Oklahoma Sooners will not hammer the Tar
Heels into the turf at Norman like a 10-penny nail...
Hoops Carry Phelps, Williams Around the World
Chapel Hill News/By Anthony Jeffries
CHAPEL HILL -- It was easy to figure out who was the point guard and who was the scoring guard by
watching Derrick Phelps and Donald Williams shoot jumpers at Chapel Hill's Blue Heaven Basketball
Museum on Wednesday...
John Montgomery Interview
Greensboro News & Record
John Montgomery is less than five months into his tenure as head of the Educational Foundation,
the University of North Carolina's athletics fund-raising organization, but he's got a full agenda.
Montgomery, a 1981 Radford University graduate, served as assistant athletics director at UNCG
from 1990-96 and helped initiate the Spartan Club. He then went on to SMU, where he led the
fund-raising for construction of a 35,000-seat on-campus football stadium that signaled the
rebirth of the Mustangs program when it opened last year. He came to Carolina in March and
addressed his plans...
