{"id":82,"date":"2010-07-22T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-07-22T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T14:41:00","slug":"opening-stretch-is-grueling-for-unc-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Opening stretch is grueling for UNC football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TEhZfEu9CbI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/hng2Gz9lez0\/s1600\/UNC+logo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"161\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TEhZfEu9CbI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/hng2Gz9lez0\/s200\/UNC+logo.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The news on the North Carolina football team so far has focused on Marvin Austin and the NCAA probe, but here\u2019s a point to keep in mind \u2013 Carolina has a really difficult opening schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows the Heels open against LSU in Atlanta Sept. 4. But games against Georgia Tech (Sept. 18) and at Rutgers (Sept. 25) follow. So the Tar Heels could be 1-2 or even 0-3 going into the Oct. 2 home game with East Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t get easier after that, with Clemson at home and road trips to Virginia and Miami. <i>(Insert Club LIV joke here)<\/i>. So UNC could easily stumble into November with a losing record. Any player suspensions will only make Carolina\u2019s road that more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a team can have a hard time finding any traction on a season when events go wrong \u2013 just ask N.C. State last year. The Wolfpack had a hard time recovering from that early injury to Nate Irving. And all the negativity surrounding UNC now won\u2019t help as it heads into an arduous stretch of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news on the North Carolina football team so far has focused on Marvin Austin and the NCAA probe, but here\u2019s a point to keep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}