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From dawn till dusk: Behind the scenes with UNC’s Larry Fedora on signing day

Larry Fedora walked into the Kenan Football Center in Chapel Hill about 6:20 on the morning of national signing day, as ready as he could be for one of the most hectic days of the college football off-season.

He reached his office on the fourth floor, set down his bag and walked out to the balcony overlooking the field at Kenan Stadium. The lights were on and in the fog North Carolina’s receivers, some of whom had missed too many early-morning workouts, were slowly crawling their way up the field.

“Freak, freak!” Fedora yelled, addressing the receivers by the position group’s nickname, the “freaks.