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UNC players notice empty seats
As of 2:58 PM on Tuesday the tweet had 324 retweets.
The tweet is in reference to the low UNC fan turnout during Saturday's 48-14 clobbering of Illinois. There were also plenty of empty seats for the home matchup against N.C. A&T a week earlier and in Charlotte for the Heels' opening season lost to South Carolina.
Without putting words in Howard's mouth, it also hints at the popularity of basketball at North Carolina versus support for the football team. The hoops team holds random pick-up games on campus that brings out droves of students to designated locations.
At Monday's media availability starting quarterback Marquise Williams spoke a little on the fan issue.
"It was pretty low," Williams said when asked about the attendance on Saturday. "When we finished the game I saw (former UNC safety) Tre Boston tweet: 'Only 41,000? They act like we were losing and we were winning and we still couldn't fill the stadium.' You know we just got to keep winning games. Early games, it's like some people can't get up to get in here. We just need to keep winning games and do what we need to do. We can't focus trying to fill the stands up and try to please everybody. We just got to come out and win games and hopefully they will finally realize that this is a good football team. We have to win, if we don't win, nobody is going to show up. Nobody is going to get out of bed early. We are gonna wins games and bring them in."
Former and current players, along with a basketball team member weighed in on Howard's tweet.
Former UNC quarterback Caleb Pressley referencing former UNC quarterback and now Tar Heel basketball player Kanler Coker:
Johnson:
Everybody knows UNC has NO shot at winning the ACC Coastal (or even a decent bowl) as long as Fedora is coach, so why not just stay home? No hope = no fans at the stadium.
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