Heels thinking 'W'

Posted Dec 27, 2008
North Carolina's players and coaches have talked for years about getting to the postseason. Now that they've made it, and will play West Virginia in the Meineke Bowl on Saturday, they want to do more. They want to win it. "I've been telling everybody, I was here the last time we were in a bowl game [in 2004], and it was fun and everything, but we were on the losing end of it,'' senior safety Trimane Goddard said. "I tell them, 'You don't want a ring for losing.''' (Raleigh News & Observer)

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