Another penalty, another shoddy defensive performance and another loss for the Tar Heel football team.
Clemson coach Tommy Bowden, whose team became bowl eligible for the fourth time in four years with Saturday's 42-12 win against UNC, also removed his headset during the course of the game.
But his wires came off in a much more relaxed fashion, when he realized he could just sit back and enjoy the waning minutes of the fourth quarter.
"It was the first time with five minutes to go that I could actually take the headset off and enjoy an afternoon," Bowden said.
Bowden's Tigers sucked any enjoyment out of the afternoon for the Tar Heels, who went 0-6 at home for the first time in half a century.
Bunting might have had some choice words for the referees in the first quarter, but he had trouble explaining his disappointment after the game.
"Real, real bad. Real bad feeling. I don't know how to describe it any worse than that," Bunting said. "If you guys can come up with some other words, I'll use those. I don't know how to come up with any other words worse than (it's) the worse that it's ever been -- I've ever felt."
It wasn't the Tar Heels worst performance so far this season, but just the culmination of so many botched plays and frustrating losses -- and the realization that a win at home would not come to fruition for the 11 seniors on the roster -- made the post-game interview area in the Kenan Football Center a sea of downtrodden faces.
"I can't really explain the feeling," senior cornerback Kevin Knight said. "I'm hurting bad right now."