Bobby is currently the General Manager and Assistant Publisher at the Daily Statesman after serving his term as Managing Editor. He wears many hats in the office, including coordinator of all things online, but his real passion is sports.

One more chance for Tyler

Posted Monday, November 3, 2008, at 3:41 PM

Hansbrough returns to North Carolina for his senior season and one last push to achieve his ultimate goal...... the national championship.

And returning to North Carolina for his senior year, 6 foot 9, reigning national player of the year, from Poplar Bluff, MO, at forward, number 50, TYLER HANSBROUGH...... that has a great ring to it, doesn't it?

Tyler has made it quite obvious during his already stellar college basketball career that he has one goal in mind above all others..... a national championship. And this is his last opportunity to achieve the ultimate prize.

Not since Shaquille O'Neal returned to LSU for his junior season in 1991, has an underclassmen national player of the year returned the following season. Tyler Hansbrough is not like most ball players today though. As the smell of big money and bright lights lure so many players away from the very reason they started playing the game of basketball in the first place (they loved the game), Tyler refuses to sell out.

This young man has already achieved greatness and will always be mentioned in the same Tar Heel circle as Phil Ford, Lennie Rosenbluth, and the great one, Michael Jordan. After graduation, Tyler's jersey will forever hang in the rafters of the Dean Dome. Even that is not enough for Hansbrough to move on.

Physco T wants that national championship ring before he moves on to the lucrative shoe endorsements and the big bucks of the NBA and he has the supporting cast this year to get the job done.

Hansbrough averaged 22.6 points and 10.2 rebounds last season in leading North Carolina to a school-record 36 wins, its second straight Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title and its first Final Four since 2005.

He begins his senior season 122 points behind Phil Ford's 30-year-old school scoring record of 2,290 points, and is within reach of the ACC's scoring record of 2,769 set by Duke's J.J. Redick in 2006.

North Carolina has a very difficult early season schedule that includes hosting Kentucky on Nov. 18, playing in the Maui Invitation Nov. 23-25, which includes highly ranked Texas and Notre Dame, and a showdown with top 10 Michigan State in Detroit at the Final Four site of Ford Field in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 3.

The big man on campus is going to have to overcome a stress reaction condition in his right shin. I'm confident Tyler will heal up nicely and return to his 'crazed in the paint' self!

Different commentators and reporters use different words to describe Hansbrough like tough-nosed, hard core, resentless or animal.

My two words defining Tyler Hansbrough are 'guts' and 'honorable'.

Best of luck to Tyler and the rest of the Tar Heels this year in their quest for glory.

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This one is a little better for me Bobby G. I just can't do Nascar....I am huge Carolina fan and have been for many years. So that makes it double sweet when a local kid makes it to such a high level. I think if he can over come this leg injury, he will pass Redick for the all-time scoring title in the ACC. But it will take another run like last year in order to do so....In my opinion, I think Hansbrough may be the best college player to come out of Missouri. Bill Bradley would be the only other player to put up better numbers and bring in more awards than Hansbrough. And I'm not even sure if Bradley won more awards.

-- Posted by BonScott on Mon, Nov 3, 2008, at 11:07 PM
what issue did stipo have

-- Posted by captainkirk on Wed, Nov 5, 2008, at 5:06 PM
Ah, bobby, the music has gone out of your sports blogs!! Bye, bye, Miss American Pie...drove my Chevie to the levee but the levee was dry...

Where is the music??????????

-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Nov 9, 2008, at 2:30 PM
Ooooohhhhh, soooooorrrrry, Bobby! Corey's last blog just broke 155, which, I believe ties the record for your "My Wife Really Does Love Me" blog!!

Remember those days of Dead Rocker Glory?? Ahhhhhhh.......too bad! Those days are GONE!!! Don't cry, Bobby. We still love you; we really DO! Poor, poor, poor Bobby..... He has no more fan club. He has been deserted by all his good, good, good friends!

Sunshine friends are sooooooooo FICKLE!!! Hehehe! (What is that sound?? Do I hear MC Hammer? "U Can't Touch This!"???)

-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, Nov 18, 2008, at 5:27 PM
Watch it goat...we may reappear when you least expect it.

Tyler is good, but he can't draw a charge like Eric Bowyer circa 1989. I'm layne staley and I've drank beer at "He's Not Here."

-- Posted by layne staley on Sun, Nov 23, 2008, at 3:42 AM
Well, well, one of you is still alive, I see...

The girls and I were thinking we'd just hijack Bobby's blog and turn it into a fashion column. What do you think?? Good idea, huh??

-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Nov 23, 2008, at 9:21 AM
I see a resurrection coming. Prepare yourself goat lady. I am Bon Scott and I've drank beer at LuLu's.

-- Posted by BonScott on Sun, Nov 23, 2008, at 10:35 AM
Ain't found a way to kill me yet..........

Eyes burn with stingin' sweat.........

Seems every path leads me to NO WHERE!

They've come to snuff the Rooster, BUT:

We BE BAAAAAAAACK!

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sun, Nov 23, 2008, at 6:30 PM
Oh, no! The rumors of hoon's untimely death were obviously exaggerated! The Phoenix has arisen from the ashes!!

Darn, the girls and I had so looked forward to our fashion column!

Hey, Bobby! What'd ya think? Is it the real hoon or an imposter???

-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Nov 23, 2008, at 6:55 PM
'Cause I'm on the track

And I'm beating the flack

Nobody's gonna get me on another rap

So look at me now

I'm just making my play

Don't try to push your luck just get out of my way!

'Cause I'm back...

BACK IN BLACK!

-- Posted by layne staley on Sun, Nov 23, 2008, at 11:12 PM
Well...I'm sure it sounds better with the music...

-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Nov 24, 2008, at 6:33 AM
100%, Grade A, certifiable HOON.

And BG, Tarheels looking good with AND without Pycho T so far. Love seeing the scores in the 50's and 60's for opponents and hope that keeps up. Anxious to catch my first game this season at Cameron Indoor watching what will surely be an EPIC battle. Did I say Epic?

Can you feel it

See it

Hear it today?

If you can't then it doesn't matter anyway......

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Mon, Nov 24, 2008, at 9:01 AM
Mix up a pitcher of Pina Colada and close your eyes......After about the 3rd or 4th, you can be anywhere you want to be!

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Mon, Nov 24, 2008, at 11:32 AM
Oh, darn, I was so looking forward to talk about the Catwalk! However, if you mix me a Pina Colada, I won't care if you talk sports!!

Happy blogging, Bobby Boy!! It's been a dry November!

-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Nov 24, 2008, at 1:08 PM
Get ready, girls! It's now Dec. 2, and this blog is UP FOR GRABS!! I suggest we open our fashion show with styles for the dog lovers of the world - matching outfits for the dog lover and his/her companion animals!

Oh.....Can we allow dogs on the cat walk??? Mmm...I'll have to think about that! "I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts..."

-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, Dec 2, 2008, at 7:32 AM
I'm too sexy for my cat, how about that?

-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, Dec 2, 2008, at 1:34 PM
Oh, no! I was planning to post a comment about GOAT fashions! Now you've ruined my fun, Bobby!!

So sorry you have to work, while some of us get to be ridiculous and have fun!!!

Well, your day will come! One day you'll be old and feeble-minded too, Mr. Greer!! Then you'll get to blog all you want to!

-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, Dec 2, 2008, at 3:44 PM

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