Jim Hickey News & Bio

Name: Jim Hickey

Few UNC Football Coaches Have Started Strongly in ACC Era
Among North Carolina Football's 12 previous head coaches during the ACC era (1953-present), only two won eight or more games during their first season: John...
Thu Aug 7, 2025

Ken Willard Named to 2013 ACC Football Legends Class
Ken Willard (1962-64), a hard-running fullback, was one of the mainstays of the North Carolina teams of Jim Hickey in the early 1960s. He was...
Wed Sep 25, 2013

Extra Points Archive: The Giant Killers
The Jim Hickey era of Tar Heel football in the early 1960s was marked by its 1963 ACC championship and its proclivity to slay some...
Thu Oct 8, 2009

Extra Points: Where Davis Leads, Heels and Their Fans Follow
UNC now has a proven head coach in the person of Butch Davis and is giving him the resources to do the job. No more...
Tue Aug 21, 2007