PAT NARDUZZI: Well, again, we closed the chapter on a really, really good North Carolina football team last night with our guys. Our guys were in a good mindset. They see the mistakes they made, again, coaches and players. There’s always preparation errors that you can put on coaches, as well. We all take a responsibility in any win or loss as far as the team goes.
But again, I feel the same way I did after that game. North Carolina is a good football team. We’ll start there. Mack Brown has done a nice job. The quarterback is really good. Josh Downs is really good. Had trouble stopping either one of those guys.
I thought Kancey’s departure from that game was a turning point. I even heard their team after the targeting cheering saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got a chance now, we’ve got a chance now.’ That’s something I heard from our guys on the field when that happened, which I thought was interesting, because they must have felt the same way.
He was pretty much — regardless of tackles or sacks, he was disruptive and he’s been disruptive all year. I think that kind of tells you that.
Like I told our team last night, we played three really good quarters, and we’ve got to find a way to finish it. I’m going to change some things up in practice this week. It’s really two fourth quarters that we’ve let two of them get by the last few weeks. Historically I think we’ve been a pretty good fourth quarter team, so is that something we’re doing or is it something the other team is doing? If the other team is a good fourth quarter team, and both of them (games) are on the road in good atmospheres, so as a coach you never know what to attribute it to. Again, look and see what Louisville did last weekend to Wake Forest; Louisville is a good football team.
I think the parity in college football and obviously around the ACC is strong, as well.
With that, we’ve got the No. 22 ranked team in the country. There’s no rest for the weary. Dino Babers is coming into town. They’ve had two tough losses against two really good football teams, too, the last two weeks, but they’re still ranked No. 22 in the country and they’re coming in to Acrisure Stadium and we’ve got to be ready to go.
Dino is having a great year. Coach Babers is having a great year as far as what they’ve done this year. They started off with six straight wins and got up in the rankings pretty…
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