Extra Points: Tar Heels At The Speed Of Sound

Posted Apr 16, 2007

Spring football went fast for the Tar Heels this year. Fast on their feet, fast in their playbooks, fast from one drill to the next, fast from one snap of the ball to the next. They were force-fed football at the speed of sound, with Coach Butch Davis comparing the intensity of the learning curve at one position from doing mathematics one year and graduating to calculus the next. (Tar Heel Blue)

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