Tar Heels near limit in football recruiting
Posted Aug 6, 2005
John Bunting's eight-page packet of 2006 recruiting targets is dwarfed by the thick NCAA rule book sitting on a shelf in the North Carolina football coach's office. It is impressive in size, nonetheless, what with 300 players of interest listed. All the more impressive -- astounding even -- is that the Tar Heels have received commitments from 20 of those targeted players six months before letter-of-intent signing day.
(Greensboro News & Record)
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