Marketing their NCAA title
UNC has long been the top, or one of the top, merchandising schools in the country what with the Tar Heels' basketball tradition and the apparent popularity of their shade of blue. The Heels' 2005 NCAA championship team now is monopolizing the video-game world. There's Raymond Felton on the cover of EA Sports' '06 college basketball game, and now comes Roy Williams and one-year Heel Marvin Williams on another cover.
Meanwhile, the News & Observer continues to market off-color cartoons spoofing Triangle-area ACC coaches. For those who enjoyed Chuck Dynamite, you might want to check out John Bunting in "Miami Twice." While Chuck came off looking clownish, the lyrics in the latest cartoon are fairly unrestrained in critiquing Bunting's 6-win season, bad losses to Louisville and survivability despite not making the most of his talent (note the Willie Parker reference).
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Though Grey Blackwell did make Amato appear somewhat clownish, I think Bunting got the harsher treatment because Blackwell is a State grad. He's certainly not going to pull any punches when it comes to UNC.
That being said, I thought both of his pieces at the N&O were hysterical. And I'm a UNC grad.
Posted on October 28, 2005 1:59 PM