Here's the good news: They didn't quit like a year ago. They didn't get run over like a week ago. And the only involved school record wasn't a 58-0 losing margin like a month ago in Sun Life Stadium, but Michael Badgley's record-tying 57-yard field goal.
Now for the bad news that Saturday's 38-21 win against Georgia Tech didn't have enough perfume to cover:
The Hurricanes are dead.
At least as you remember them. The swagger? The "U?" The locally defiant, nationally decried aura defined by T-shirts like, "It's a Canes thing, you wouldn't understand.