Welcome back to another edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Here’s what the Tar Heels have been up to:
- With everything the UNC football program has been through in the past couple of years, this writer says new head coach Larry Fedora deserves a free pass this season.
- UNC-Chapel Hill isn’t alone, though: The relationship between academics and revenue sports is a concern across the UNC system, Assistant State & National Editor Erika Keil writes.
- Here’s an in-depth look at Fedora’s spread offense and how it originated.
- For the UNC men’s soccer team, last season ended with a goal from a transfer student. This year it began with one.
- Meanwhile, the women’s soccer team is two games into the season, and it hasn’t won or scored a goal, David Adler writes.
- Assistant Sports Editor Robbie Harms writes that women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance coached his 800th game on Friday.
- The field hockey team battled through some opening day jitters to put together a strong first weekend, Assistant Sports Editor Brooke Pryor writes.
- With a loss in its first game, the volleyball team’s trip to Kentucky didn’t begin well. But as Marilyn Payne writes, the Tar Heels’ fortunes turned around quickly.
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