Football season is back. This Saturday at 12:30 p.m., UNC will be playing Elon in both schools’ season openers.
UNC experienced highs and lows last season, and faced a summer where the academic integrity of the University was stained. The football team, with new head coach Larry Fedora, will be looking forward in hopes of putting the past year behind them — and they shouldn’t be alone.
Kenan Stadium is known around the South as the “Aluminum Jungle” — because of the lack of attendance at football games. For a campus full of school pride, when it comes to football, fans have a funny way of showing it.
Students and alumni should come together this season — particularly this opening weekend — and show their support.
With the football team facing a one-year bowl ban, it is important to show our support to a team that has nothing to play for but pride.
Aside from the Duke game every year, UNC fans have had little to get excited about, but Larry Fedora and the athletic department are trying to change that.
A new pregame show, stadium amphitheatre and the return of fireworks should excite most fans. But for those who are still as unimpressed as McKayla Maroney, they’ll be happy to see the Golden Knights parachute team and a military jet fly over for Military Appreciation Day on Sept. 29.
A week later, the team will debut its new Carolina Football white helmets, white jerseys and white pants. All fans will be encouraged to wear white for a Tar Heel white out.
Fedora has done a great job garnering excitement around campus, even challenging UNC fans to “make Kenan one of the nation’s best atmospheres.” Every Tar Heel should rise to the challenge. Go Heels. Go America.
