In hindsight, all these months later, Mike Fox acknowledged that it was “maybe a little corny,” as he put it on Monday, to pull those big, blue NCAA logo stickers off the outfield walls at Boshamer Stadium. But that's what he did, hoping the sight might inspire his team.
By then it had been two long years since the North Carolina baseball team had made the NCAA tournament, after all, and it'd been three years since the Tar Heels had hosted an NCAA tournament regional. When a team hosts one of those, the NCAA stickers go up on the outfield walls.