UNC vs VT

For the second week in a row UNC played a Thursday night ESPN primetime game. The heels came into this game as a big underdog playing the 13th ranked team in the nation in one of the toughest places to play espically at night. The Hokies had won 15 of the last 16 home games. The Tar Heels came into this game determined to win, and the Heels showed the nation what they can do. The Tar Heels started the game with a big turnover while the Hokies were driving. The Heels offense started clicking for the first time vs a quality opponent. TJ Yates threw a jump ball into the right corner of the endzone as Jheraine Boyd came down with it for the Heels to take the lead right before halftime. The Hokies came out playing much better in the second half. The Hokies scored first in the second half then the Heels answered with a touchdown to Greg Little. The Hokies then responded with a touchdown of their own. On the next drive Yates was rushed and threw an interception inside the 25 yard line of the Heels. The Hokies were stopped on a goal line stand, and had to settle with a field goal. The Heels made a 25 yard field goal to tie the game with 2:02 left in the game. On 3rd and 8 the Hokies handed the ball off to their star running back who fumbled the ball with a little over a minute, Deunta Willams picked the ball up and was stopped at about the 23. Casey Barth came into the game to kick the game winning field goal with 2 seconds left. He made the field goal and the Heels won. It was a great victory for the UNC football game.

Look Ahead: Georgia Southern

This upcoming Saturday UNC will be facing Georgia Southern at 3 30 in Chapel Hill. Georgia Souther in from The SOCON conference which is the same conference as Citadel, Appalachian State, and Charelston Southern. Georgia Southern is 3-2 coming into Saturday's game losing to South Dakota State and Elon, but they are a very good football team. Look for two very good offensive weapons for the Eagles in their star quarterback and wide reciever. Their quarterback Lee Chapel is a veteran who likes to throw to his number one target J. Valentine. On the defensive side of the ball watch out for their leading tackler in solo tackles and overall in number 33 Dion Dubose. This Saturday the Tar Heels will have a decent test to see if the offense can move the ball down the field against a medicore defense. I am sure the Heels are very determined to get a win and maybe even to get back into the top 25 and start competing in the ACC. This could be a good positive for our team this is a good way to bounce back from two horrible displays of offense, and finally show all of the people out there that we can play and that we can win games and get back on track. This will be a good game for us to try to come back and hopefully get back on track.

Trying To Recover

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a variety of different injurys from the offensive line to our star tight end. Hopefully these injurys will no longer be a problem, because with these important players we were playing alot better as an offense. For offense to function properly we need our offensive line back to protect TJ Yates and to make holes for our running game to get going. Hopefully with a FCS team coming to Chapel Hill saturday and a bye week after that it will be enough time for our whole team to regroup and start playing like we did before the Georgia Tech game. This week is a great opportunity for our offense to come together and really get their stride going and get some points on the board. Hopefully, Shaun Draughn will be able to get back into the swing of things and start getting some production on the ground and become the great runner that we all know that he can be. If the offensive line gets healthy and Zack Pinalto gets better than I think better days are to come for our football team. Hopefully this week will be a much better week for our offense to regroup and get some production and to get some points on the board.

Unfortunate Trouble

On Saturday UNC took on UVA the heels were a 17 point favorite, but that did not prove true at all. The Tar Heels offense had no improvement what so ever, the heels had only 32 rushing yards which is about 70 yards less than UVA's running back. This game was a horrible showing of our offensive ability eventhough we are still young the Cavaliers were second worst in scoring defense, but we only put up three points. The offensive line took another injury late in the game when veteran left tackle Kyle Jolly went down this is the fifth time we have had a problem with a offensive linemen. One thing is for sure John Shoop needs to make some big adjustments in the offense and if he doesn't some people may be calling his name to be fired. TJ Yates needs to step up and be the veteran leader that we know he can be. The offense will have a easy test next Saturday when Georgia Southern comes to town this game could not have come at a better time and thankfully we have a bye the next week this should be plenty of time for the offense to come together and regroup.

Offensive Trouble

This past Saturday UNC played Georgia Tech and was outplayed the entire game. The tar heels lost the game 28-7, the one word that describes Saturday's loss was disappointment. This week during interviews every single player said that they were disappointed, and that they should have played better. TJ Yates UNC's quarterback said that the offensive performance was an embarrassment and to except much better play from the offense this week in Chapel Hill when the Tar Heels face the Virginia Cavaliers. Even though the Cavs come into Chapel Hill winless the Tar Heels will be facing a tough 3-4 defense who is very disciplined and focused on getting their first win. This week in practice John Shoop should be working the offense harder than ever, if the Heels want to compete for an ACC title the offensive has to start clicking. The talent is there the veterans need to step up and help the underclassmen. The offensive line needs to start making better holes for Shaun Draughn to use his lighting speed and get out into the open and get big gains while we need them. I will say last week the line gave Yates plenty of time in the pocket he just could not get going. Erik Highsmith's touchdown catch was the only good looking offensive play of the whole game. Hopefully this week in practice the players will focus on playing the game instead of talking smack to the other team. Hopefully this upcoming week vs UVA the Tar Heels offensive woos will disappear and the true potential of this offense will shine through and will lead us to victory.