{"id":360408,"date":"2016-08-06T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T02:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=360408"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:07:57","slug":"depth-of-knowledge-will-improve-tar-heel-defense-in-chiziks-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=360408","title":{"rendered":"Depth of knowledge will improve Tar Heel defense in Chizik&#8217;s second year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/depth-of-knowledge-will-improve-tar-heel-defense-in-chizik-year-two\/15908220\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2015\/09\/19\/14911788\/14911788-1470537920-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"UNC routs Illinois, 48-14\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Gene Chizik helped North Carolina significantly improve its defense in 2015 from where it was the year before in his first season as the team&#8217;s defensive coordinator. Now the Tar Heels hope to build on that in year two. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/depth-of-knowledge-will-improve-tar-heel-defense-in-chizik-year-two\/15908220\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/depth-of-knowledge-will-improve-tar-heel-defense-in-chizik-year-two\/15908220\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Depth of knowledge will improve Tar Heel defense in Chizik&#039;s second year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Chizik helped North Carolina significantly improve its defense in 2015 from where it was the year before in his first season as the team&#8217;s defensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922666,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360408\/revisions\/1922666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}