Former Miami coach Butch Davis building winner at North Carolina

Posted Oct 8, 2008
As two of 11 true freshmen to play for North Carolina a year ago, linebackers Quan Sturdivant and Bruce Carter represented the bedrock for new coach Butch Davis' reclamation project: Young, talented, precocious. Clueless, too. But it was fine if general understanding of technique, nuance and anything beyond see-ball, tackle-ballcarrier arrived later, as long as it arrived sometime. (Chicago Tribune)

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