The 2015-16 Tar Heels may have thought the week’s consistently rainy weather might excuse them from Thursday afternoon’s scheduled mile run. The Carolina mile is an annual end-of-conditioning tradition, and is normally a gateway to the start of practice.
But as the players gathered on the Finley track under overcast skies, Brad Frederick grinned when asked if there was ever any consideration of a weather cancellation. “Rain or shine,” he said. “Rain or shine.”
As Frederick—a perennial mile run winner during his Tar Heel career whose junior year time of 4:36 remains the all-time record—observed, Roy Williams could have held an alumni mile run in addition to the current team.