What a day for my blog

I had a record day in my blog. I had 71 page views (my previous high was 38) and went over 1000  total views. Also, my stats have changed even though the little icons on the right are the same. My Blog Juice is 0.3 and my seomoz page strength is 1.5. I know you don’t care about this stuff but I was excited by it. The big news of the day was the firing of the UNC coach so I reported on that. Thanks to everyone who has read my blog and keep on reading.

Coach Bunting Update

Ok, after reading a few blogs I’ve discovered that I was way behind in learning about the firing of the UNC football coach. Apparently my not keeping up with the news made me not know that the rumors were flying on Friday. The Tarheel Fan Blog reported that Bunting was asked to resign and refused and was fired effective after the last game of this season. I also found the Tom Suitor of WRAL-TV in Raleigh Blog with a story on it. Suitor said “John Bunting is a good man who loves Carolina, but I think this decision was inevitable and was going to be made one way or the other and last night’s decision will end what would have been weeks of speculation….Bunting did some good things but not nearly enough. Quite simply, he couldn’t win games.” Suitor went on to suggest that maybe the Athletic Director was fit for the job of hiring Buntings replacement. “A question I’m sure a lot of Carolina fans are wondering is whether Athletic Director Dick Baddour is the man to make the hire? His two previous hires, Carl Torbush and Bunting, have been failures. He also hired Matt Doherty for the basketball coaching job.” Some of the commentors seemed to agree with this with comments like “Dick “Badhire” should have been the first to go.” and “Why not fire Dick Baddour as AD and move Bunting into that position! Bunting bleeds Carolina Blue and I believe he would do a great job in the AD position.” I totally agree with these opinions. Check out the WRAL Sports Blog and The Tarheel Fan Blog for more information.

Coach Bunting will not return in 2007

The official Tarheel website reports that John Bunting will not return in 2007. Carolina is in the middle of a tumultous season with only one win against Rutgers. The season began with high expectations with the arrival of offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti of Fresno State and a top 25 recruiting class. Apparently most of the freshmen were redshirted when they should have been playing and helping the tarheels win. “Changing coaches is never a pleasant experience, but it is even more difficult when you consider the character and integrity of someone like John Bunting,” says Dick Baddour, UNC athletic director. “I am disappointed and of course I don’t agree with the decision, but I know I must accept it,” says Coach Bunting. “My love for this great University has not and never will waver. I am very proud of the many great things we have accomplished over the past six years. We simply have not won enough games this year.” Me personally I am disappointed as well. I like John Bunting and his loyalty and dedication to his alma mater. Hopefully this won’t affect the status of quarterback Mike Paulus who has made a verbal commitment. I read in tarheel monthly that he is being pursued by other programs such as Ohio State and Oklahome and can’t make his commitment official until February. Read more about it here at TarheelBlue.com.

Another Sunday in Football Season

Well, the Panthers let me down yesterday. Instead of kicking the tying field goal Jake threw an errant pass that was intercepted in the endzone. I guess I underestimated the Bengals and they really stepped up and played well. But yesterday was a good day in spite of the Panthers loss. I went to church (actually 2 churches) with a new friend. I haven’t been to church in a long time and apparently even they are catching onto the technology with computers, and projectors replacing the hymnals with the song lyrics displayed on the big screen. Sorry, I know the headline was about football and I got off the subject. Now all I have to do is hope for Jeremy Shockey to have a disappointing game tonight ( and score less than 13 fantasy football points) for me to win in my FF league. Wish me luck. I’ll update you tomorrow night