My memory could be off about this but...weren't Carolina fans pretty P.O.' ed at 'Ol Mack when he dumped them for UT just after making them relevant again? I'm from NC and recall a fair amount of animosity toward him back in the day. And, as others have pointed out, rampant academic fraud (cheating) started while Brown was there. Plus, the very idea that someone like Julius Peppers belonged at a school that purports to be rigorous academically is a joke. Just goes to show that they really do have no shame in Chapel Hill. 9F!
Words fail me:
https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-new...ack/1621779813
I'll omit the photo-you'll have to click on the link yourself-if you dare.
Pretty crass deed that goes way beyond the pale.
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Just someone getting a head start on UNC's summer reading program this year.
"The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society by David Waltner-Toews"
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...ews/1113730505
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
In fairness to Brown, IIRC the fraud numbers were low as a percentage of the football players (total numbers comparable to basketball players) while he was there. The academic cheating really took off in football after he left. Of course, maybe that just means he was "wise" enough to keep things discreet by limiting the number of players involved.
The point is, what success he had he likely achieved without the full advantages had by the mid-00s coaches.
Pretty good column in The Washington Post by Barry Svrluga about the Mack Brown hiring.
The Old Bidet...
It will be interesting. Make no mistake, Mack Brown is no longer an X's and O's guy at any sort of granular level. Sure he'll decide between 1 and 2 pts and whether to go for it on 4th, but he will likely hire coordinators that will have full control of his offense (I am hearing Kliff Kingsbury and Gene Chizik could both be in the works).
In addition to Kingsbury, a recruiting whiz like David Beatty could be in play. I assume he is going to build a very good coaching staff. But I can't imagine Mack is going to be "killing himself on the recruiting trail" as he claimed while he was exiting Texas (narrator: he wasn't). So his hires are going to have to be the ones putting in the hours.
A-Tex, I was hoping you would weigh in. Did Mack put in less effort towards the end at Texas. As a UNC fan, I am both intrigued by Mack's record in his previous stint in Chapel Hill and somewhat concerned that he isn't up to the task at hand. I have to imagine he'll win more games next year than Fedora did the last two combined (5).
Mack made a habit of locking up his recruiting class as juniors, which was a somewhat groundbreaking tactic at the time (early to mid aughts), and generated some stellar classes (the VY class may be a top 3 class of all time). But then, I think, this tactic made him lazy in recruiting. He would only give offers if he was certain he was going to get a commitment, and this led to a lot of scholarships to guys that peaked in high school (the Texas O-Line draft drought is testament to that). Honestly, it also was less work to recruit, outside the 3 or 4 4-5 stars you knew from outset were going to hold out until signing day. Mack and his staff weren't finding the kids that peak senior year because the class was filled out. They weren't offering a ton of out of state talent because (1) there was an assumption Texas HS football was sufficient (it wasn't, especially at the non-skill positions), and (2) that would lead to offers that weren't committed to, which Mack didn't like.
So in my view, the recruiting tactics that gave Texas an advantage early in Mack's reign created a complacency and laziness near the end. The talent development and the draft results in Mack's last several years bear that out.
I think he'll have a lot of energy early on, but UNC's success under MB will have more to do with who Mack hires than Mack.