
{"id":25225,"date":"2012-04-19T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=25225"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:27:31","slug":"renner-new-look-heels-show-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/04\/19\/renner-new-look-heels-show-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Renner, new-look Heels show flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Eddy Landreth<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carolina football has emerged from the darkness that engulfed it since officials discovered three players received unauthorized money and gifts from sports agents two years ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20318\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/08\/18\/support-the-players-by-filling-kenan-stadium\/landreth-mug-30\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"landreth-mug\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1-74x100.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddy Landreth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last Saturday the Tar Heels held their annual spring game before an estimated 17,000 people at Kenan Stadium. The fans were eager to see the excitement new head coach Larry Fedora promised when he took the job.<br \/>\nThe team did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Rising junior quarterback Bryn Renner led his team to a 44-7 halftime lead (the scoreboard read 44-21 after Fedora had officials add 14 points to the opposing squad at the start of the second half).<\/p>\n<p>Yes there were penalties, mistakes and plenty of obvious room for improvement. Nonetheless it is clear Renner is the person to run this offense.<\/p>\n<p>His job is to get players on the field around him into their proper spots and then deliver the ball to the man best suited, at that moment, to make a positive play. Renner did his job repeatedly on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He had his best day today, by far,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d offensive coordinator Blake Anderson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[Renner] has all the abilities for a guy to play in the system. He has the arm strength to throw the ball to any spot on the field. That gives you a chance to get everybody involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He made the most strides in the past two weeks, which is what I expected,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Anderson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To spread the ball around today, make good checks, good calls is a step we needed him to take to be effective in the fall.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Backup quarterback Marquise Williams, a redshirt freshman from Charlotte, carried himself like an excellent athlete and someone with the potential to one day become a superb quarterback. He went 17 of 32 for 123 yards and one TD.<br \/>\nDefensively it was simply too hard to tell where Carolina stands at this point with a split roster for the game.<br \/>\nOne could see the Tar Heels have talented defensive players. They just need more time to adjust to the new schemes Fedora and defensive coordinator Dan Disch have installed.<\/p>\n<p>The next step for the players is to learn the new scheme so well they can utilize their speed and overall athleticism. <\/p>\n<p>But this was a day for Renner and his teammates on offense.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He showed that he has a good understanding of what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not there yet, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s made so much progress in a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He distributed [the ball] where it needed to go. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t throw into coverage. All those things are big positives.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Renner went 23 of 28 for 295 yards and two touchdowns. He did not throw an interception.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The biggest issue for him and the other quarterbacks is processing what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing as fast as we are,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>Before he suffered a gash on his head, which required five stitches, running back Giovani Bernard ran five times for 36 yards. Bernard proved himself last season by rushing for 1,253 yards and 13 touchdowns. The manner in which this offense forces the defense to cover the entire field should only make Bernard an even greater weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Redshirt freshman running back Romar Morris showed great speed and explosiveness. He ran nine times for 40 yards and one touchdown. Morris can catch the ball, too.<br \/>\nRenner faked the run to Morris and then hit him down the middle for a 17-yard touchdown pass on one play.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He made some really nice runs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He showed good vision. He caught the ball on the seam one time for a touchdown. It looked like he picked up the blitz pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Romar is getting more consistent. You watch what he did today. He has got some acceleration. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got some explosiveness. His vision is getting better. And the thing I really like is he catches the ball really well.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Another runner, junior A.J. Blue, ran effectively as well.<br \/>\nFedora demands the offense to function in overdrive all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For me, it was awfully slow and sluggish between the plays,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We still have a ways to go in understanding the tempo. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not hard to see the stress you can put on a defense when you start moving the chains a few times and you have a tempo going. The defense gets on its heels and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re breathing pretty hard.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina football has emerged from the darkness that engulfed it since officials discovered three players received unauthorized money and gifts from sports agents two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-25225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25269,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25225\/revisions\/25269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}