Column: I’ll give you this one, Larry

I tip my fedora to you, Larry. You’ve made me eat my words.

After watching North Carolina’s 28-27 win in Charlottesville and making sure Ashton Kutcher and the crew of “Punk’d” weren’t waiting around the corner, I take it all back.

UNC should reopen the quarterback debate. Put Mack Hollins under center.

Against Virginia, the former walk-on proved he could do everything short of playing cowbell in the halftime show after racking up two 50-yard receiving touchdowns, downing a punt on the 1-yard line and smothering a game-sealing onside kick.

While we’re at it, Hollins should replace Nick Weiler too.

The one highlight of the sophomore kicker’s afternoon was the onside kick recovered by Hollins. But after Weiler missed his only two field goal attempts, I wasn’t totally convinced the dribbler wasn’t just a feeble attempt to kick the ball through the endzone.

The only thing UNC’s special teams seem to be able to kick this season is the bucket. If not for the Tar Heels finding themselves on the good end of bad luck for once, UNC would have been looking to special teams to save the day, which scares me more than imagining Larry actually reading these columns.

OK, OK. Fine. I’ve beaten around the bush better than Rashad McCants explaining why he didn’t find time to talk to Kenneth Wainstein, but that ends here. I’ll talk about Mitch Trubisky.

It’s safe to say I’ve crossed the Rubicon in a few semi-opinionated columns in the past, so I’ll just keep trudging on. I stand by my modestly stated musings, no matter how many times Fedora is one slip of the tongue away from cussing me out in a press conference. Though I guess he’d have to know my name first.

“I’m happy with what we’ve been doing with Mitch,” he said after the game. “I know a lot of people think we’re idiots, but I think it paid off for him in that situation.”

You know what, Larry, we’re finally seeing eye-to-eye here. I’m happy with what you’ve been doing with Mitch as well.

In the past three games, Trubisky has played two snaps that he was forced to play because red-hot Marquise Williams had to sit out for a play. In one of them, he threw a very clutch TD. Momentary excellence? Yes. Play-calling brilliance? Not so much.

Fedora trusted Trubisky. And he should — Trubisky is skilled. Despite my valiant protests, he has seen valuable playing time and is now an important asset as a backup. Note the word “backup.”

By no means does this mean Fedora should go back to splitting reps. We’ve seen what happens then, and it’s a bigger train wreck than Mike Krzyzewski trying to smile.

The one takeaway I have after this magic trick of a win is this:

If this turns out to be a true grade A comeback season — not a paper-class grade A — it brings about the one question my overly cocky, omniscient brain might not have an answer to — what the hell will I write about then?