The latest effort to make Carolina a football powerhouse is over before the season even starts:

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A season of such unrestrained promise is quickly becoming a season of looming disgrace. For once, football was battling with basketball for top summer billing in Chapel Hill, what with the top 25 preseason ranking, national TV opener against an SEC powerhouse and “BCS sleeper” buzz. Thursday night, all that anticipation was replaced with foreboding.

Reading that Butch Davis “was supposed to be the disciplinarian, weeding out the John Bunting recruits who couldn’t close a dorm-room door without doing something illegal behind it” really makes you wonder what was going on in the first place.