Morning Heel: UNC Tar Heels Daily News Links

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Tar Heels ready for next step after big debut
North Carolina’s players proved they have a good handle on Larry Fedora’s schemes in an easy season-opening victory. The Tar Heels will have to accomplish more this week to impress their new coach in their first Atlantic Coast Conference game at Wake Forest. Raleigh News & Observer

Week 2 sneak peek
North Carolina at Wake Forest: North Carolina is coming off a complete performance in a 62-0 drubbing of Elon, but it was against Elon, so it was little more than a glorified practice run of Larry Fedora’s spread offense. It was impressive nonetheless. Wake Forest, meanwhile, struggled to beat Liberty, 20-17. The Deacs trailed 20-17 late in the third quarter. ESPN.com

UNC RB Gio Bernard: I feel good…I’m ready to go
UNC sophomore running back Giovani Bernard wouldn’t elaborate on the nature of his injury on Monday, but assured reporters that he feels fine and that he’s over whatever it is that forced him out of the game on Saturday. “I feel good, I feel great,” he said. “[It was] just a little precautionary kind of thing – I feel good.” Raleigh News & Observer

UNC vs Wake Forest TV Affiliates
The Atlantic Coast Conference has compiled a list of regional sports network affiliates who will televise UNC’s football game at Wake Forest on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. The ACC

Spectacular Debut for Quinshad Davis
Quinshad Davis did exactly what everyone from the North Carolina coaches to the players expected in his college debut Saturday – he created excitement with a big play. The freshman receiver from Gaffney, S.C., delivered one of the offensive highlights from the 62-0 season-opening victory against Elon at Kenan Stadium with a leaping catch of a tipped pass near the sideline in the first quarter. Tar Heel Illustrated

Tar Heels, Blue Devils impress while Wolfpack disappoint
Most assumed that the Tar Heels would have little trouble dispatching Elon in the home opener of the Larry Fedora era Saturday, but not many thought it would look that easy. North Carolina cruised to a 41-0 halftime lead on the strength of three Gio Bernard touchdowns. Defensively, the Tar Heels pitched their first shutout since they beat Duke 38-0 in 1999. WRAL Sports Fan

UNC Officials Look To Post-Scandal Future
As UNC settles into its new academic year, Chancellor Holden Thorp is weighing in on why he decided to go public with the current African and Afro-American Studies Department controversy. “The decision we made to disclose that it happened was a bold and important one,” he says. Chapelboro

UNC Basketball: Questions Going into the 2012 Season Part II
Welcome to part II of the series, for part I, click HERE. I thought I would expand on something I touched on earlier this week. North Carolina will have much lower expectations this season due to the large roster turnover it experienced. As a result, Carolina has many question marks going into the 2012 season. KIH

UNC Football: Five Things We Learned Saturday at Kenan Stadium
The fans poured into Kenan stadium not know what exactly to expect from the UNC football team, but there was an excitement in the air that has not been there since 1997 when Mack Brown roamed the sideline. Of course there was some excitement with Coach Davis, but the year UNC would have been a KIH