TO THE EDITOR:
To quote legendary head coach Bill Parcells, “You are what your record says you are.” In Coach Larry Fedora’s tenure at UNC, the Tar Heels have been 21-17 all together, 1-1 in bowl games and a combined 3-3 against Duke and N.C. State. In a word, the Tar Heels under Fedora have been “average.”
What’s worse is that, in each of the years Fedora has been at UNC, the football team has declined from the year before, with the Heels finally falling below an even win-loss record last year after the 40-21 loss to Rutgers in the Quick Lane Bowl. 6-6 regular seasons are hard to stomach for fans, especially at Carolina. It feels like nearly every other sport is competing for a conference or national championship while the football team is fighting for a six-win season (out of twelve games) to become bowl-eligible.
If this university was not so successful academically or athletically in basketball and soccer, fans would be fed up with being average in the largest revenue sport in the country. When has average ever been enough at the University of North Carolina?
The only real job security in the world of coaching is having a larger number in the win column than in the loss column, and the UNC football team has been moving in the wrong direction since Fedora’s first season, when the team went 8-4. (Thanks, Gio!) Unless “average” is accepted at Carolina, time may be running thin for Coach Fedora in Chapel Hill.
Jack Carver
Senior
Exercise and
sports science
