The 2015 football season was a total success for UNC. They won 11 games and went to the ACC Championship Game. They were, in theory, in the College Football Playoff discussion in December. It’s hard not to be optimistic about the long term future of the program.
UNC will probably start the 2016 season ranked somewhere in the top 25. The media picked them to win the Coastal Division again at ACC Media Days. Marquise Williams guaranteed that they would make the College Football Playoff. UNC gives the appearance of a program on the rise.
All of those things could end up being more of a curse than a blessing, at least for 2016.