By Lee Pace
Carolina's football team embarked on spring practice thirty years ago having lost four senior offensive linemen and a 1,000-yard rusher from the previous team. For the first week, the offense ran only four plays—the sweep, sprint draw, the belly and the counter—and the defense was restricted from blitzing or disguising coverages, just to give the offense a whisker of breathing room. After one scrimmage, John Swofford, then the Tar Heels' athletic director, half smirked to Mack Brown, then the second-year head coach, "You sure like that sweep, don't you?"
Brown could laugh about it later.