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The Road to Respect a Difficult Grind for Tar Heels


The 2005 football season for the Tar Heels is all about respect. These 11 games are predicated on some combination of building, maintaining, earning and reclaiming some of that precious commodity defined by Webster as "a feeling of high regard, honor or esteem." The Heels had it in the 1940s with Justice and Weiner, in the 1960s with Lacey and Hanburger, in the 1970s with Voight and Betterson, in the 1980s with Bryant and Fuller, in the 1990s with Keldorf and Bly, and in 2001 with Peppers and Sims. (Tar Heel Blue)

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