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“Going into the season, we were hopeful that we were going to have the identity that we have right now”, he said.

Fundamentals, cleaning up small mistakes and tinkering with schemes that simply weren’t working the way the coaching staff hoped consumed practice during the off week.

The Tar Heels open the 2015-16 season in the Veterans Classic against Temple on November 13th. “In ’09 I thought we were the best”. “It’s hard to correct those other things”. They’re a really good team. The Wolfpack have surged the past several years with a few huge recruiting classes, and won the conference title for the first time in over two decades last year, but UNC is fighting back with the same tactics, pulling a big recruit in Brocato, who should have the ability to contribute in three individual events and perhaps all five relays by the time he gets to Chapel Hill. “Now I’m just the guy that sits back and steers the ship, rather than trying to control everything that goes on, and bark at guys the whole time”.

Coming off of the biggest comeback in school history, North Carolina isn’t concerned that it will be overconfident ahead of Wake Forest. He played in all five games.

“We understand that we haven’t accomplished anything yet”, linebacker Jeff Schoettmer said. The Tar Heels spent much of the game in a heated deadlock before sophomore Alan Winn broke through for the game-winner. Marquise Williams, the fifth-year senior quarterback, said last week that he hadn’t even heard the stories going around suggesting that UNC had emerged as the early clear favorite to win the Coastal. “I think this year we are one of the best and I think if we play the best down the stretch then we could be the best”.

“That’s just one of the things with me growing up”, he added. “We have all the confidence in the world that we can do something special and that’s the goal, do something special, make people believe in this program”. “I just wasn’t playing well”, Paige said. “I think it’s a byproduct of everything that’s happened in the past and as they mature, what they’ve learned from it”.

The No. 2 North Carolina men’s soccer team (11-0-1) survived a tight game Tuesday, netting a goal with 29 seconds left to give it a 3-2 victory over the College of Charleston (5-5-2).