Lucas: Ray's Carolina Conversion Impacts Everyone

Posted Oct 17, 2007

Everyone thinks they knew Jason Ray. In the eight thick photo albums that occupy a corner of his parents' home, many of the notes contain a reference to a personal encounter with Ray as Rameses. What the writers may not realize is that Ray wasn't always in the mascot costume. Maybe he was studying that night. Or maybe he had traded off with another of the mascots during halftime. But to them--to most of Tar Heel nation--Ray was Rameses. (Tar Heel Blue)

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