Traitorous Cowards Explain Why They Left UNC

From WRAL

Three former North Carolina Tar Heels-turned-enemies are coming out and talking about some of the more specific reasons they left Chapel Hill.

The twins, David and Travis Wear bolted shortly after the 2009-10 season concluded. Then Larry Drew's far more surprising (and from Tar Heel fans far more unforgivable) exit came in the middle of the ACC season in February, after the second semester had already begun.

Now the trio of UCLA Bruins can sit around and recount their miserable times in Chapel Hill together. All three told the LA Times that the decision to leave wasn't much about lack of playing time. It was more about fan support, a disconnect with the coaching staff and the "Carolina experience" falling short of expectations:

"The energy just wasn't there as in the years prior, it seemed like," said Travis Wear, a 6-foot-10 forward who averaged 3.5 points in 10.1 minutes a game. "It just wasn't that fun of a year."

David Wear described being in Chapel Hill as a culture shock, saying they both missed the friends and family that supported them all along, and that they couldn't count on the fans for that support. Larry Drew shared those thoughts:

"When you're winning, everything's good. When you're losing, it's opposite. Going to a school like that, I was aware of the potential for how things could be. I wasn't aware to the extent."

And some more bits of information that I'm sure will make you love Larry Drew even more....his recent birthday party rap, which was laced with N-words, F-words and blatant shots at Carolina and Roy Williams was justified by Drew as "venting". He said, "I didn't mean it as a diss or anything like that, it was just something I had to get off my chest."

The other surprising thing was this comment from Larry Drew Sr., Drew's father and an NBA head coach with the Hawks, who apparently felt like he and his son were owed something by the Carolina staff when Kendall Marshall was infused into the starting lineup:

"Nothing was said to Larry, nothing was said to me," Drew Sr. said. "That was a little hard to swallow."

Wow. First of all Roy Williams stands by that the move was discussed openly in front of the team before it happened. Second, I didn't know Larry Drew Sr. had to be consulted about roster moves on the Carolina basketball team.

Former big man Deon Thompson even told the Times that Drew and Roy Williams "bumped heads" at times. "He was just a laid-back kid, so it was hard for Coach Williams to light that fire in him at times."
Is the Drew family going for the title of America's least favorite sports family or something?
These three being 3,000 miles away is probably best for Carolina basketball.

Sportsball Update!

Good news, friends! Especially Seth!

John Henson and Tyler Zeller have decided to come back to us next year! No word on Harrison yet, but the word on the street is he'll be back.


UPDATE: The deal gets sweeter: Kyrie Irving is going pro, after playing just 11 games in his collegiate career. Want some cheese with that, Coach? Of course you do.

Is Twitter cool/fun? Does Tweeting make you happy?

There have been about 4 times when I have thought about getting a Twitter. Today I want one so I can follow @Real_BlueSteel. The scrubbies have ONE twitter for all of them! It's fantastic!

• Bio We swear we're on the UNC basketball team. For real. We live for warmups, blowouts and free gear.

Sample tweets: A deacon is someone in a church. A demon is a devil. Wake Forest's mascot is an oxymoron. It's like we're playing the Jumbo Shrimp tonight

Seeing a misspelled word in our tweets is a lot like seeing us in a game. Its a rarity, but people usually notice. #feelthesteel

Is this a good enough reason to join the 'Twittosphere'?

The bonus is that John Henson tweets gifs of destroying Krzyzewskiville:

Thanks, Chokies

This article warmed my heart. Kendall earned a starting position last night. Hopefully Roy will make that happen for him.

What you might notice here was that Marshall was actually on the floor for crunch time for one of the first times in his Carolina career. He had to be. He had nine assists and zero turnovers--zero turnovers in a game when the ball seemed greased with WD-40--in his second conference game.

ZERO turnovers?!?! That's very un-Tar Heel like.
Also, about that "pass":

Roy Williams doesn't teach what happened next. No one could. It doesn't even make sense that it happens, because you can run the tape back as many times as you want, and there's no way Marshall ever even looks at John Henson. But as the pass from Barnes is in the air, Marshall goes to meet it. Two Hokies converge on him when he leaps in the air to receive the pass.

Here's the thing: he never catches it. Not in the true sense of the word. He just redirects it, off his fingertips, to a wide-open Henson on the baseline.

It was a very beautiful thing. If only I could find a video!