Calling Audibles Part XII: Reading Tea Leaves and Twitter Feeds

Posted Dec 7, 2011
Chapel Hill is abuzz with predictions that a new football coach is on his way. Twitter feeds suggest possible timetables and scenarios while everyone waits for some official word. For my family and the other current coaches’ families pretty much knew this day would come when they fired Butch Davis back in July. Every game week there were tea leaves to read—do we have a real shot at staying or will they clean house here no matter what? (Rev. Marcia Mount Shoop, Ph.D.)

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