This summer, Tar Heel Blog will profile the top 25 players in the history of the North Carolina football program. The rankings were determined by votes from readers and staff.
The 1970s were a high-time for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and one of the headliners on the gridiron was the charismatic and hard-running tailback Mike Voight.
A fairly recent story by Harry Minium of the The Virginian-Pilot showed the kind of tight-knit brotherhood that the 1970s Tar Heels were under Coach Bill Dooley. The social and gregarious Voight during that time earned the nickname “Space Cowboy” as a reflection of his own personality in the popular culture of the time, even though the 1977 media guide says the nickname comes from his teammates thinking Voight was “a little spacey.