Brownlow: 'Geeked' For Football

Posted Apr 11, 2010
Marvin Austin might have shocked quite a few people when he decided to go to the then-lowly Carolina, but he has proven the skeptics wrong. He and his fellow rising seniors have helped build this program. It might be a basketball school, but this is also a basketball school whose fans are, for the first time in ages, yearning for their highly-touted football team to take the field in March. It's usually the reverse in October. (Tar Heel Blue)

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