It doesn't feel like it, but this may actually be a step in the right direction.
The UNC football program lost another game to a P5 opponent, making it a perfect 4 for 4 on the season, but they only lost by three points. Their previous three losses were by multiple touchdown margins. This is progress.
One could argue that if it weren't for two utterly devastating fumbles, North Carolina could have won the game. Who's to say? But the despair of annihilation without a hint of resistance has been replaced by the devastation of failed execution down the stretch in a game that could have been won.