CHAPEL HILL
It starts to make sense now, looking back with the benefit of hindsight, with the benefit of knowing what would happen over the next 12 weeks. At the time, it was hard to understand why Marquise Williams was so calm.
It was late at night, in a dim, noisy concrete hallway outside the North Carolina locker room at Bank of America Stadium, after as disheartening a loss to begin a season as you could ever imagine. Williams stood there, without once flinching, and took the blame for that 19-16 loss to South Carolina that was hard to believe then and seems utterly inexplicable now.