Having seen seventy-eight games and more than a hundred practices, conducted interviews into triple digits and filed away innumerable fly-on-the-wall snippets into the Larry Fedora Era of Tar Heel football, I remain flummoxed by this prickly quandary: How does a program run by such a structured, disciplined and regimented head coach who employs constant initiatives to instill those same qualities in his team continue to need a calculator to keep up with turnovers and penalties on the playing field?
The disconnect is mystifying. The latest exhibit was the Tar Heels' 2018 season-opener at the University of California.