Friday, July 20, 2012

Coaches laugh it up, wax poetic at annual Pigskin Preview

CARY, North Carolina - It’s the largest event of its kind in the nation, this Tenth Annual Pigskin Preview of the Bill Dooley Triangle/East Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.

And of course it helps that there are five Division I football programs between Orange and Pitt counties.



On Thursday five coaches — new UNC coach Larry Fedora, N.C. State’s Tom O’Brien, Duke’s David Cutcliffe, East Carolina’s Ruffin McNeill and N.C. Central assistant Dwayne Foster — occupied the head table for what has become the first big event of each football season. (Foster was sitting in for NCCU coach Henry Frazier, who is on leave as he awaits a court date on domestic assault charges.)

And unfortunately the event’s 78-year-old namesake was ill and unable to attend.  But the coaches entertained a wide array of questions from ...



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