http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/football/article26857663.html
"N.C. State, East Carolina and even Duke, in recent years and for a brief stretch under Steve Spurrier, have all provided glimpses of their potential. And all of them have failed to sustain success. Yet more often than not, UNC is singled out as being the greatest football failure among in-state schools. Why?
N.C. State has been every bit, and more, the underachiever that UNC has been in football. Duke, which, yes, has won an ACC championship more recently than UNC and N.C. State, was for the better part of two decades one of the worst major-conference programs in the country.
Yet N.C. State and Duke aren’t judged the way UNC is for underachieving in football. Neither is Indiana, which hasn’t finished a season in the top 25 since 1988. And neither is Virginia, which has a lot of the same things going for it that UNC does yet, like UNC, has struggled to build a nationally-relevant program."
"N.C. State, East Carolina and even Duke, in recent years and for a brief stretch under Steve Spurrier, have all provided glimpses of their potential. And all of them have failed to sustain success. Yet more often than not, UNC is singled out as being the greatest football failure among in-state schools. Why?
N.C. State has been every bit, and more, the underachiever that UNC has been in football. Duke, which, yes, has won an ACC championship more recently than UNC and N.C. State, was for the better part of two decades one of the worst major-conference programs in the country.
Yet N.C. State and Duke aren’t judged the way UNC is for underachieving in football. Neither is Indiana, which hasn’t finished a season in the top 25 since 1988. And neither is Virginia, which has a lot of the same things going for it that UNC does yet, like UNC, has struggled to build a nationally-relevant program."
