Questions linger for Tar Heel football

Posted Aug 12, 2005

North Carolina opens football practice this afternoon. But will anyone on the basketball-obsessed Chapel Hill campus notice? Maybe, maybe not. It probably depends on where John Bunting's Tar Heels go from here. Do they build on the modest, but much-needed, success of 2004, which ended in a bowl trip and earned Bunting a two-year contract extension? Or do they slip back into football oblivion in the supersized ACC? (Greensboro News & Record)

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