UNC Football’s Fifth-Year Seniors Have Seen It All

Posted Dec 15, 2015
As UNC’s incredible football season approaches its conclusion, all five of the team’s fifth-year seniors each celebrated another milestone....they graduated from school and put one of the final touches on their difficult, but triumphant, journeys. Recruited by former head coach Butch Davis back in 2011, redshirt seniors Marquise Williams, Landon Turner, Jeff Schoettmer, Sam Smiley, and Romar Morris were thrown right into the midst of the NCAA academic scandal as soon as they set foot in Chapel Hill. (Chapelboro.com)

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