Summertime is great for a lot of things, but not for football (and please do not say "Arena football"). Baseball is all over the tube, but if you don't like it you're in trouble! Golf is in its glory right about this time of the year as the days are long and you can get in 9 or 18 holes after work, but again, if you don't like it you're in trouble. Hey, there is tennis and of course NASCAR, and many, many other sports, but if you don't like them? Well I have the solution for all of you football fans that just want the gridiron 24/7.I am going to simulate the 2008 season for the Tar Heels to see how they will do. There are a couple of problems with making this totally authentic however. First, the site I use doesn't have McNeese State on it as it keeps rosters of only Division IAA teams, and secondly (for now) they only have the 2007 rosters available, so you're going to see this year's schedule with last year's team. On the other hand, it is (simulated) football, and for us gridiron junkies, that should be enough to get us over the summer and into the fall and the real season.
After a long and hard look at all the Division IA teams, I decided to swap out McNeese St., who had a record of 11 and 1 last season) for Army, who's record was 3 and 9, what I believe most Division IAA would be about in their first year up. So, starting tomorrow you are going to have the chance to watch, well I should say, read about what the Tar Heels did in their games. I will try to do one game per day and of course give the full details (from the stats to play-by-play) of each and every game that the team plays.
And once we are done with the season, who knows, I might redo it (hopefully with the update rosters) in a post before each game this fall! But let's not get ahead of ourselves, for now lets just enjoy a July full of football, what a great way to spend the 4th of July.
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