'You need to get out': UNC football players fear for family in wake of Hurricane Irma

Posted Sep 7, 2017
It’s not just the football game on Saturday that has some UNC players trying to convince their families to head to Chapel Hill. Linebacker Andre Smith, whose mother lives in Jacksonville, has insisted that has mother leave home as Florida braces for Hurricane Irma. “She's like, ‘Oh we are gonna wait and see what the track is.'" “I'm like, ‘No. You need to get out.'" (Daily Tar Heel)

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