There’s something different about this Carolina Football team: Resiliency.
The reason the joke about Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown works when describing the UNC Football fan experience is that, no matter the coach, any time the Tar Heels have had a chance to take a step up to achieve something big, they always manage to trip up right at the last second. For the most part, this is because when things start to go wrong, the team just can’t recover and things roll downhill.
Not for the 2022 version of the Tar Heels. They’ve trailed in five of their seven games so far this season, and the two they didn’t — Miami and Virginia Tech — had significant pockets where things didn’t feel comfortable.