Winning and Losing
Fall is in the air, college football is back and I’ll be at Carter-Finley Stadium, pulling for the Wolfpack.
In a couple of months, I’ll be in the Lenovo Center (or whatever it’s named now) hoping Will Wade can restore our basketball glory in the era of NIL (“Now It’s Legal”).
I’ll learn the players’ names about the time the transfer portal transports them to richer fields and courts.
The days of a David Thompson, Philip Rivers or Dereck Whittenburg giving us four years of excellence are gone.
In Chapel Hill, UNC fans will be cheering or jeering as Bill Friday gives way to Bill Belichick (and Jordon Hudson).
As one Tar Heel fan said, “We made a deal with the devil. He’d better win.”
The New Yorker has an excellent article (photo) by Paige Williams on the tensions at UNC between the Dean Smith Way and the Belichick Way.
In Raleigh and Chapel Hill and across the country, we all want to win.
But what are we losing?
Winning and Losing
Fall is in the air, college football is back and I’ll be at Carter-Finley Stadium, pulling for the Wolfpack.
In a couple of months, I’ll be in the Lenovo Center (or whatever it’s named now) hoping Will Wade can restore our basketball glory in the era of NIL (“Now It’s Legal”).
I’ll learn the players’ names about the time the transfer portal transports them to richer fields and courts.
The days of a David Thompson, Philip Rivers or Dereck Whittenburg giving us four years of excellence are gone.
In Chapel Hill, UNC fans will be cheering or jeering as Bill Friday gives way to Bill Belichick (and Jordon Hudson).
As one Tar Heel fan said, “We made a deal with the devil. He’d better win.”
The New Yorker has an excellent article (photo) by Paige Williams on the tensions at UNC between the Dean Smith Way and the Belichick Way.
In Raleigh and Chapel Hill and across the country, we all want to win.
But what are we losing?