This team and its fans legitimately expected a 10 win season. Once it started, we got blown out vs Alabama and were never competitive, barely hung on vs a G5 team in a game we very easily could have lost, got embarrassed on our home field vs Michigan State, and doubled down on that embarrassment by losing on national TV to a team with maybe 1 kid we recruited. There's not much to rally for, honestly. How many times can you get off the mat only to be tagged in the teeth before you decide you really don't want to do this anymore?
I'm sure some kids will come to play against UNC. Of course everyone says we'll get blown out, we might. But there are kids who can make plays on this team. For the most part they haven't, but we have tangible evidence that they're at least capable of doing so. Maybe a few of them do in Chapel Hill and weird things happen? I surely wouldn't be surprised. But all these accounts of the mood of the team being completely toxic....well that's what happens when you think you're going to be good for 8 months and then you're 2-3 before you realize what happened.