Extra Points: Daybreak
By Lee Pace
Those 99 days since the Tar Heels last played football might as well have been in another century for all their relevance to Sunday afternoon's dawning of spring practice. The new chancellor was there. The band and cheerleaders christened the proceedings with some pomp and circumstance. There were aging lettermen and fresh-faced high school prospects dotting the landscape, and the media was given a wide berth over two hours to document the action. And there was a silver-haired coach back on the practice field in an official capacity for the first time in five years.