As the Carolina football team was winning at an historical rate as the season unfolded and snippets of Marquise Williams, Mack Hollins and Elijah Hood popped up on ESPN with regularity the first week of December, the Tar Heels themselves found moments to remember the big picture.
Just over 12 hours after busses returned to Kenan Football Center the third weekend of November after a trip to Blacksburg, Va., where the Tar Heels clinched their first ACC Coastal Division title, team chaplain Mitch Mason and a handful of players were on the fifth floor stuffing shoe boxes with Christmas gifts to be shipped around the world.