Ready to learn from tough lessons

Posted Jul 25, 2008

North Carolina football coaches and players hope a year's experience and more talent will equate to a bowl game in 2008. "We know people are looking at us to do great things, and we know we have to hold up to those standards," junior wide receiver Hakeem Nicks said at the ACC's annual football kickoff. "But not only for that. It's for the simple fact that we want to win. (Chapel Hill News)

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