Saturday was a bad day for the Wolfpack, but it was a good day for our dog, Hershey. No, Hershey wasn't celebrating Duke's impressive win over State. He was happy because State didn't get but a few opportunities to play their recorded track of the Wolf howling. The eerie tone blasts through the television speakers whenever the Wolfpack makes an outstanding play. Hershey is bothered by the recorded howl. Evidently, when he hears it, he thinks there is a live wolf roaming the neighborhood. His ears shoot straight up and he growls out the side of his mouth. At a little under 12 pounds, Hershey isn't about to confront a wolf. He wouldn't want to hurt him.

Hershey had a restful second half. In fact, between the Wolfpack's miscues and fumbles, I don't believe I heard the wolf howl once, but I did hear quite a few boos coming from the stands. They soon tapered off, however, as the Wolfpack fans started leaving before the game was even over.

Things were some better over in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels won their game against Georgia Southern. But, after last week's disappointing loss to Virginia, the win over the Eagles was nothing to howl about. Georgia Southern is in a lower Division than Carolina and shouldn't be expected to compete with the Tar Heels on the football field. Carolina's coaches should be explaining why they decided to play a Division 1 team midway through the season, and not a conference opponent, instead of talking about their "big win."

I guess the Duke fans were the only ones that were truly happy with last week's results. Their celebration probably won't last long considering Duke's recent relationship with football. It’s not been a blissful marriage. I'm convince that the reason Dukes' fans are forced to listen to their teams' radio broadcast through static on an AM station, instead of a clear FM station, is because the Blue Devil's officials don't want their fans to know what's happening on the field.

With the way things are going for the State football team, there’s a strong chance that Hershey will have a peaceful fall. If the Wolfpack doesn’t make some drastic changes on defense, Hershey might not hear the recorded wolf howl again until next year.

A few years ago, Carolina forked over a pile of money to hire Butch Davis as their football coach. Even though he had been out of coaching for several years, Davis had won a National Championship in Miami, and the Tar Heel’s were hoping he would make the team more competitive on the field, and maybe one day bring the coveted championship trophy to Chapel Hill. Here we are three years later, Davis is rich, but Carolina’s having a hard time competing with what should be considered average foes. The only thing that’s changed with Carolina Football since Davis took over after the ousting of former coach, John Bunting, is the coach’s salary. The year after Davis was hired, the Tar Heel’s gave him a hefty raise to keep him in Chapel Hill. However, to this point, his teams haven’t proven to be any better than the squads Bunting fielded.

I predict that there will be howling in Raleigh and Chapel Hill if the coaches don’t end the year with a winning record. No, there won’t be any howls of celebration, but the fans of both teams will be howling for a change.