Kory Bailey, former UNC receiver and currently #6 on the all-time receptions and receiving yards list, spoke to HeelsBlog last week about what he's up to now. He keeps busy with an interest in the Chapel Hill nightlife scene, marketing a fitness club, and not giving up on professional football just yet.
Kory's still in the area, working in marketing and promotions for O2 fitness. He primarily works at the Cary location.

"I was working out here and knew that they were getting ready to expand the gym," Bailey says. "I started doing some great things out here as far as marketing and promotion."

Kory is a minority owner in Avalon nightclub, Carolina Blue Bar, and W.B. Yeats Irish Pub in Chapel Hill as part of HC Bar Group.
"November 2003 is when I got involved with that," he says. "Myself, Danny Davis (who's an ex-football player and is involved with that too), and one of my friends from high school, Greg Boone." There are a lot of ties to UNC, Bailey says. "It's actually a group of about 7 of us and 6 of us went to Carolina."

Playing in the Canadian Football League gave Kory some capital to invest in the bar group.

He says each bar has a different atmosphere. I mentioned to Kory that I played open-mic nights at W.B. Yeats during my time in school.

"We haven't done open mic nights in a few months, but we have live music at least twice a week," he says. "We do an 80s night on Fridays." He says Yeats hosts mixers and events for greek organizations, and sometimes musicians bring their instruments to jam. "You pretty much play for free."
In addition, Yeats has hosted comedy nights. "There are soem pretty funny comics," he says. "There are a number of different things that we're trying to do."

"Avalon is an 18 and up club and it's a dance club," Bailey says. "You get a younger crowd." He says some of the basketball players frequent the 21 and up VIP lounge upstairs at Avalon. "It's a pop culture crowd."
"At Yeats we have a number of regular customers that are older," he says. There is an after-dinner crowd and after-hours bar crowd. "And for a game of bar golf - they always hit Yeats."

"Carolina Blue Bar is beer only," he says. "There are 8 TVs in there; it's kind of a sports bar. It was absolutely packed for the national championship."

Next time - Kory's experiences with reality television.
After that - reflections on football and what's next.