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Star punter Corbin Daly chose UNC football to be closer to his mother

Boys learn certain things about what it means to be a man from their fathers. These lessons can include how to throw and catch a baseball, how to fix an appliance or how to be responsible for one’s actions.

They also learn how to pee standing up.

But when the time came for North Carolina punter Corbin Daly to learn what every man must learn, it wasn’t his father who taught him but his single mother Maria Daly, who demonstrated to her young son by using a banana.

“She’s pretty much taught me how to do everything,” Corbin said.