In all of his years at North Carolina, 18 of them now as the Tar Heels’ head baseball coach, Mike Fox had never experienced the kind of limbo in which he found himself in about a year ago at this time.
The Tar Heels were out of the ACC tournament – they’d failed to qualify for it for the first time in school history – and then they found themselves hoping against hope for an NCAA tournament bid that never came. It was a different feeling, and environment, for a program long accustomed to success.
One year later things are back to normal, Fox in charge of a team with College World Series aspirations, and the characteristics to make it there.