What the AP story – or any other dispatch from any other reporter covering the game – didn’t contain was a comment from any UNC player. That’s because North Carolina refused to let the assembled media talk to players after this home loss.

I finally thought that after hiring defensive coordinator Geoff Collins in the offseason, the UNC football team finally fixed its long-standing defensive issues. Those issues largely looked long-gone in the Tar Heels' first three games,