N.C. State should prepare to be turned down by several leading candidates for its vacant coaching job. North Carolina is the best team in the nation – when it plays good defense. The academic scandal in North Carolina’s athletic program was “profoundly wrong” but still doesn’t justify the widespread call for “a pound of flesh” from the Tar Heels.
Those thoughts and more came from ESPN analyst Jay Bilas in a provocative interview Friday with a small group of reporters inside the Smith Center. Bilas, a Charlotte resident, was in Chapel Hill to cover the North Carolina-Virginia game Saturday night for ESPN.