North Carolina began preseason practice on Wednesday, as it always does, amid the sound of music. Since the day Larry Fedora arrived in 2012, the Tar Heels have practiced this way, surrounded by a familiar soundtrack mainly comprised of thumping beats and creative rhymes.
Usually it's hip-hop that is blaring over the loudspeakers but, every now and then, genre diversity emerges. Take Wednesday morning, for instance. Not long after UNC began practicing, Survivor's “Eye of the Tiger” echoed throughout Kenan Stadium, where the Tar Heels are practicing this season.
All of a sudden, it was 1982 again, and Rocky Balboa was training to fight Clubber Lang.