Luke DeCock

Luke DeCock: For the few dozen hardy N.C. State fans who made the trip to Daytona Beach, what they saw Friday probably made their journey to the Glenn Wilkes Classic worthwhile.

The inevitable soul-searching that this North Carolina team will go through, as is only natural given the sheer volume of the post-championship exodus, was always going to last longer than one game.

Luke DeCock: This is the one piece of advice Marcus Ginyard wishes someone had given him before his freshman year at North Carolina: "Coach Williams is right 100 percent of the time, no matter what," Ginyard said.

Luke DeCock: It has been a tough year for college football in North Carolina, no doubt about it. At this point, it's conceivable not a single team will make a bowl game.

Greg Paulus' football experiment is an exercise in the now, in the immediate. The one thing he doesn't have is time.

Another NHL season begins in the Triangle when the Carolina Hurricanes host the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday, the ninth opening night at the RBC Center.

In the years when Nick Price's single-minded focus on golf made him the No.

If the message to his players wasn't clear enough when he walked into the locker room and told them they weren't any good, Tom O'Brien made sure they would hear about it all week by underlining the point with the media.

Not that it was ever easy putting together a roster full of veterans that is ready to contend this season or assembling a cast of prospects who can take over next season, but this is the hard part.

Eduardo Romero is the defending champion at the SAS Championship this week and a five-time winner on the Champions Tour, so he's far from inexperienced at this level of golf.