Time for Defense to Step Up for Tar Heels

Posted Apr 12, 2017
A year of transition—that’s the story line of the Tar Heel football program going from two years of 19 wins and an ACC Coastal Division title to one looking at significant personnel losses to gradation and NFL defections. The sixth UNC team that Larry Fedora will field will certainly be different in one major respect from his first five—the defense is ahead of the offense. (UNCLettermen.com)

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