Darrell Moody Last College: NC State Position: Running Backs, Recruiting Coordinator Years at UNC: 11

• The sports teams I followed as a kid were: Duke, Washington
Redskins, New York Yankees
• My favorite football players to watch as a kid were: Roman Gabriel,
Danny Talbott
• The athletes I would pay to see perform today are: Barry Sanders,
Michael Jordan, Greg Maddux
• My greatest personal and team athletic moment was: playing on the
NC State baseball team that beat No. 1 ranked Florida State in the
regional to advance to the 1968 College World Series
• The best things about coaching college football are: working with
young people and meeting interesting and successful people
• If I could change anything about college football, I would:
eliminate the "uncatchable ball" rule on pass interference calls
• The coaches who have had the most influence on me and my career
are: Sam Esposito (NC State baseball), Bo Rein, Bobby Collins, Lou
Holtz
• The biggest influences on me as a person have been: my mother, my
wife and my coaches
• My hobby is: golf
• The single most important piece of advice anybody has ever given me
is: make your decisions based on what is right or wrong. Don’t make
decisions based on perception.
• My favorite part of practice is: individual teaching
• If I could be a world class athlete in another sport, it would be:
Baseball
• My favorite way to unwind after a game is: grading the game tape

ACC veteran Darrell Moody coaches the running backs and coordinates the Tar Heels' recruiting efforts. He coached UNC's wide receivers the past two seasons before moving back to the position he coached from 1990-95 for the Tar Heels.

Moody spent eight years at Carolina from 1988-95 in various capacities on the offensive staff, including offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and running backs coach. He was a part of four consecutive bowl game appearances at Carolina from 1992-95 and coached record-setting standouts such as Natrone Means, Leon Johnson and Curtis Johnson as well as UNC stars WR Corey Holliday and QB Jason Stanicek.

Moody returned to Carolina in 1998 after seasons at Clemson and NC State. He coached UNC record-setting senior wide receivers Na Brown and L.C. Stevens and developed Kory Bailey into one of the league's top rookies two years ago. Brown had 55 receptions to equal his own single-season school record, but added nearly 300 yards on those receptions. Bailey had a UNC freshman record 37 receptions. The 2000 season will be Moody's 28th as a collegiate coach and his 19th at an ACC institution. The Asheboro, N.C., native played quarterback at NC State from 1968-70 and began his coaching career at Asheboro High in 1971. He has made coaching stops at NC State (graduate assistant in 1973-74, defensive backs coach in 1976, quarterbacks and running backs coach from 1977-79, wide receivers in 1997), Southern Mississippi (quarterbacks and running backs in 1975), LSU (running backs from 1980-83), Appalachian State (assistant head coach in 1984), Tulane (offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 1985-87), North Carolina (1988-95), Clemson (offensive coordinator in 1996) and NC State (wide receivers in 1997).

Moody has the unique distinction of coaching two of the top six career running backs at three different universities. He coached Ted Brown and Billy Ray Vickers at NC State, Dalton Hilliard and Garry James at LSU and Leon Johnson and Means at Carolina.

He coached four 1,000-yard backs (Kennard Martin in 1988, Means in 1991 and 1992, Curtis Johnson in 1993 and Leon Johnson in 1993) and 13 offensive players received first-team All-ACC honors. UNC set a single-season passing yardage record in 1995.

Thirteen former Tar Heels who played in offenses he coordinated in Chapel Hill played in the NFL, including running backs Torin Dorn, Eric Blount, Means, Leon Johnson and William Henderson, wide receivers Corey Holliday and Bucky Brooks, tight ends Deems May, Greg DeLong, Oscar Sturgis and Freddie Jones and offensive linemen Darrell Hamilton, Kevin Donnalley and Brian Bollinger.

Means rushed for 1,000 yards twice and went on to lead the San Diego Chargers to the Super Bowl. Leon Johnson became the career all-purpose yardage leader in ACC history. Henderson never earned all-conference honors at Carolina, but fundamentally was one of the top fullbacks in the ACC. Henderson has started the last three years for the Green Bay Packers.

Recruiting Areas: Central North Carolina, North Florida.