
{"id":27597,"date":"2012-08-30T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27597"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:16:06","slug":"game-day-has-finally-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/08\/30\/game-day-has-finally-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Game day has finally arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Eddy Landreth<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20318\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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><br \/>\nThe time is here for the debut of the Larry Fedora era in Carolina football.<\/p>\n<p>The first-year coach will lead his team in the season-opener on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. against Elon.<\/p>\n<p>When Fedora looks at all that has occurred since he was announced as coach late last fall, he said the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eagerness and attitude have pleased him the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hungry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They have been hungry for someone to care about them. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hungry for something positive to happen in their lives. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been eager to please.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They want to do things the way we ask them to do them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In order to prepare for this first game, the Tar Heels had scrimmages the past three Saturdays, including a mock game this past week. Fedora said when he says mock game, he means from the time the players wake up to meetings to the pre-game meal and so on, right down to executing on offense, defense and special teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We made a lot of mistakes [in the mock game],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t playing this past Saturday. But that is why we do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We do everything, as far as how you get out of bed in the morning. When you come down to the meeting, what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to look like. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going to look like you just got out of bed. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to look alert and be ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every single detail was covered in that day,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We did it all. Everything had to be done. Traditionally when you do something like that, the focus isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t where we would want it to be as a coaching staff. Therefore, you see the mistakes that are made throughout the day and on the field.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The breakdowns provide ammunition for the coaches to show why they went through such an elaborate rehearsal.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were able to come back in and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThat is why we were doing this,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fedora said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The mistakes we made, we cannot allow this Saturday [in the first game]. It was a great experience for everybody involved.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Fedora said that star running back Giovani Bernard will add punt returns to his duties this season. Bernard is an excellent runner when he can get into the open field and force tacklers to go one-on-one with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bernard said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do something I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t love, and I think that is the mentality you have to go into it. You have to love what you do. Returning punts is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing, and I love it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I played baseball in high school, so tracking something down in the air for a while is something I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m used to. Being a football player, you have to be able to do that, add to your game in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new for me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bernard said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing a pretty good job. There are little things I need to work on, but that will come with experience.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>On the defensive side of the ball, senior linebacker Kevin Reddick said the important factor is to play hard and to do so without fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just need to play at a high-intensity level,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reddick said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That is our main thing. Go out there and play with high intensity, have fun and it will come natural to you. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to go out there and play uptight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time is here for the debut of the Larry Fedora era in Carolina football.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-27597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597","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=27597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27599,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions\/27599"}],"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=27597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}