Sports questions for the readers:
Question #1:
Has there been, or will there ever be a better time to be both a UNC Tar Heel and Carolina Panther fan?
Both teams are 4-1. Panthers lead their division, Heels ranked for the first time since 2001. Both teams continue to get better and look like championship teams in their respective conferences.
Question #2:
What will happen after this weekend? Will Cam Sexton have enough to lead the Tar Heels to victory against an improving Notre Dame team? Will the shaky offensive line of the Panthers help their team decisively claim their position as the dominant ball club in the NFC South? The Panthers face a strong Tampa Bay squad that has big wins against the Packers, the Bears, and the Falcons already this year. The Heels play a Charlie Weis led team that is also 4-1 and continues to play well as an underdog team that no one thought would win 7 games.
Both teams 5-1 by Sunday night? I sure hope so.
Thoughts?
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In reference to question number 1, I believe you should look at the 1996 Panthers/Tarheel seasons. Hopefully we will only get better from here, but '96 provides some pretty stiff competition.
After further investigation, I still think (at this point), this season has to be better. While the Heels were 4-1 at this same point in '96, the Panthers were 3-2.
i hear your question and i will raise you...
has there ever been a worse time to be an nc state fan?
let's not even go into basketball. it's no secret that being in the shadow of two of the most storied basketball programs of all time - duke and unc - has plagued nc state recruiting and success for the last 20 or 30 years. (the worst part is that so many of "lifers" were tormented by carolina fans as kids.) and with the exception of a magical, but amazingly fortunate 1983 team, many of the state faithful have never actually experienced a championship...even a team favored to win something. we weren't around for the days of the great(est?) david thompson. and nobody knows it was everett case's disciples who first cut down the nets and left a tradition now synonomous (spell check) with college basketball.
so, let's focus on football, shall we?
while the facilities in wolfpack country are better than ever, the teams and the confidence couldnt be in worse shape. the amato years were where it started...and ended. in recent memory, never have state fans been so singularly united in the belief that we were on the way up. unfulfilled promises. an exciting four year run turned out to be the strength of a phenomenally talented philip rivers, not (as so many of us thought) the coaching telents of bowden's prodigy - chuck "don corleone" amato. (i'd like to digress a moment and send a shout out to rivers, doing better than ever and leading the sd chargers. also want to send a shout out to patrick ingram who stated back in 2004 - "i dont know what all the fuss is over eli manning and philip rivers. neither of them are going to be anything in the nfl." good call. both nfl starters. one is now a superbowl mvp, the other hopefully has one in the future.) o'brien brings hope for the wolfpack but - like sydney lowe, who experienced success in year 1 and then went on win vacation in year 2 - no one is convinced quite yet. only time will tell whether the old red and white can climb up out of the depths. for now, we remain the red sox fans of college sports, still in the shadow of the yankees (sometimes duke, sometimes carolina), desperately and anxiously awaiting that magical year when we'll win it all again...in something other than swimming, cheerleading or ultimate frizbee.
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