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Team chemistry can make or break a season

By Gregg Doyel
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

CHAPEL HILL -- The first thing new North Carolina coach John Bunting did was take his players' car keys. Then he took them out of their mostly off-campus housing and put them into an empty dormitory for two weeks before the 2001 season. Then he made them walk everywhere together -- to practice, to the dining room, back to the dorm. The next day, the same thing. More walking, more bonding. More chemistry. "We've got to bring these guys together," said Bunting, a longtime assistant in the Nation ...

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