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(03/22/06 5:00am)
On the UNC campus Tuesday, a group of roughly 15 seniors trod through a frosty rain in their work attire en route to a job interview that would potentially make or break their futures.
While a scene that's certainly commonplace this time of year, what set this assemblage apart from the rest of North Carolina's lame-duck students was that for these students' audition, shorts and a T-shirt were the required dress, and a stopwatch, the industry tool they had to master.
And instead of one or two bosses, these seniors met with 24.
Tuesday was the annual NFL Pro Timing Day at UNC. A low-key, closed-to-the-public try-out for North Carolina's senior football players in front of a bevy of NFL coaches and scouts.
Prior to the four-hour workout, draft experts projected two Tar Heels at most would be legitimate candidates in the mid-April draft.
But after the workouts ended, there was a buzz in the Eddie Smith Field House.
Among the afternoon's best performers was UNC's single-year signal caller Matt Baker. Acting as the only QB in the building, Baker threw tons of balls to the multitude of wideouts who showed up.
Baker's passes were accurate, on time and delivered with a fair amount of zip. Having signed with powerhouse agent firm IMG, Baker spent the offseason tightening up his footwork at their training facility in Florida - and it showed.
"We had a lot of receivers out there, and I didn't throw as well as I wanted to," he said. "But overall I think I did pretty well today."
As far as Baker's targets went, the former Tar Heel wide receivers did a fantastic job of catching their QB's passes - something they didn't always do during the season.
Coach John Bunting was seen toward the end of the session making his way through the sea of coaches and scouts, no doubt lobbying for his guys - a group he considers the best he's had at UNC.
"I think more than one is going to get drafted out of this group. A lot of people thought there wouldn't be," he said. "I think Kyle Ralph will be drafted. I think Chase Page, Wallace Wright, Tommy Richardson and Tommy Davis, those guys are going to make somebody's ball club. I'm excited about those guys."
Davis' 34 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press was a team high. Jarwarski Pollock blazed a 4.37 second 40-yard time - his ticket to the league given his diminutive size.
Regardless of if these results lead to more Tar Heels selected in the NFL Draft, the league has been made aware that UNC's renowned professional pipeline is still viable, and that this senior class is better than advertised.
Contact Matt Estreich at estreich@email.unc.edu.
(02/22/06 5:00am)
The North Carolina women's basketball team hasn't played a home game against Duke in Ivory Latta's career.
Only seniors La'Tangela Atkinson and Jessica Sell were Tar Heels the last time UNC hosted the Blue Devils on its true home floor.
That's because the last two seasons the women's team has danced with the Devils at the Smith Center - an intimate venue for Roy's boys, but a cavernous abyss for the ladies and their fan contingent.
Prior to this season head coach Sylvia Hatchell asked the seniors where they'd prefer to play their final home game - the response came back as "Carmichael Auditorium."
As the real home of Tar Heel women's basketball, Carmichael is a wonderfully outdated building that intimidates opponents with a combination of close-sitting fans, a central campus location, an unmatched history and a deluge of powder blue.
The past two years that North Carolina has hosted Duke in Chapel Hill, an average of 8,600 fans trudged their way down to the Dean Dome - cheering UNC to a loss in 2004 and a win in 2005.
Although an impressive drawing of fan support for a women's game, that average crowd barely filled more than one-third of the seats in the Smith Center.
Had those 8,600 fans clamored for the Tar Heels in Carmichael, North Carolina would've had a better chance switching that '04 tilt from the 'L' to the 'W' column.
In fact, if those 8,600 show up Saturday, 590 of them will be turned away because Carmichael's present-day capacity is a cozy 8,010.
Is it a fair trade-off that some UNC fans will be unable to witness the game of the year firsthand in exchange for an unbeatable home-court advantage?
The answer is a deafening yes. Almost as deafening as the crowd will be Saturday afternoon.
That's the other thing about Carmichael. Due in part to the solid concrete wall behind the players' benches, the gym (and it truly is a gym - not a 'center,' 'arena' or coliseum') has the worst acoustics this side of the Grand Canyon.
When the women's team couldn't draw flies in December, 1,100 fans made that place rock. Multiply that by seven times or so, and they'll be feeling the aftershocks in Durham.
Boston College coach Cathy Inglese spoke candidly in a press conference Monday night about the honor of practicing on the Carmichael floor prior to B.C.'s loss in the NCAA tournament last season.
The Eagles fell that day to Duke - perhaps the only time that the Blue Devils held a home court advantage in Chapel Hill.
Come Saturday Durham is going to feel so far removed from Carmichael Auditorium that it might as well be in Boston.
Contact Matt Estreich at estreich@email.unc.edu.
(10/12/05 4:00am)
As Louisville was putting its final stamp on a 69-14 shellacking of the Tar Heels on Saturday, North Carolina fans had to be thinking, "it can't get much worse than this."
(09/26/05 4:00am)
Rivalries don't exist when one team wins 60 of the 70 games ever played.
(09/21/05 4:00am)
Have you ever seen those grammar columns that sometimes show up in the middle-of-nowhere section of a newspaper?
(09/19/05 4:00am)
Have you ever wondered what 60,000 people holding their breath sounds like?
(04/11/05 4:00am)
The North Carolina softball team asked for big things from junior pitcher Crystal Cox and freshman first baseman Casey Testa during a weekend series against ACC doormat Virginia Tech at the UNC Softball Complex.
(03/10/05 5:00am)
The North Carolina softball team did its best Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde impersonation in a double-header split Wednesday against Gardner-Webb at the UNC Softball Complex.
(02/28/05 5:00am)
As the North Carolina baseball team faced its toughest opponent so far this season, the team's usual bright spots continued to shine in a weekend sweep at Boshamer Stadium of the reigning Big South Conference regular season champions, Birmingham Southern.
(02/21/05 5:00am)
Despite adding two more victories at Saturday’s meet and registering the greatest start to a season in North Carolina gymnastics history, coach Derek Galvin and his Tar Heels insist their unblemished record is the farthest thought from their minds.
(01/19/05 5:00am)
High scores were a low priority this past weekend for gymnastics head coach Derek Galvin at the seven-team George Washington Invitational.
(11/15/04 5:00am)
Although the weather in Chapel Hill was dismal Friday and Saturday night, Carmichael Auditorium didn't provide much refuge for the North Carolina volleyball team.
(10/25/04 4:00am)
If there's such a thing as a valuable loss, Saturday night's match against Georgia Tech could be considered one of those defeats for the North Carolina volleyball team.