Official Site of the Tar Heels · Mar 25, 2021
Harris Barton – All In On Carolina
by Lee Pace
Eleven times during the 1986 Carolina football season, the Tar Heels checked into a hotel on Fridays – their usual spot in Research Triangle Park for home games and road trips to Kansas, Florida State, Wake Forest, LSU and Clemson. Among the room assignments made by the coaching staff was putting the Tar Heels' senior left tackle, Harris Barton, with the red-shirt freshman center, Pat Crowley.
"I think they thought he would be a calming influence, help keep me settled," Crowley remembers.
Instead, it was Crowley who ate a bedtime snack on Friday night before the opener against The Citadel and promptly fell asleep, only to be roused in the middle of the night by his roommate.