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Mack Brown is going to be upset. At his firing Tuesday, sure. So much for the North Carolina Hall of Fame coach going out on his own terms.
Less than 24 hours after saying he would return to North Carolina for a seventh season, Brown’s bosses overruled him. The firing of the 73-year-old had a sordid quality to it.
It doesn’t take an astronomer to see from a distance what had happened. In some form or fashion, North Carolina had given Brown the option of departing one of two ways — a resignation or a firing.
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Maybe Brown was stubborn. Maybe the administration doesn’t have a heart. It was clear neither side was communicating properly with each other.
“While this was not the perfect time and way in which I imagined going out, no time will ever be the perfect time,” Brown said in a statement.
A resignation would have included a fond sendoff at Saturday’s regular season finale against rival North Carolina State. They could have put Brown’s name up on a Kenan Stadium ring of honor right then and there.
But Brown is going to be upset for another reason today that I resurrect one of the greatest lines ever uttered after a national championship game loss. In January of 2010 against Alabama, his quarterback Colt McCoy had been knocked out of the game early on.
Bama rolled. After the injury, Brown never had much of a chance to win a second national championship. He never would come close again.
On his way out of the locker room at the Rose Bowl that night, I happened to run into Brown. I asked him in passing what would have happened if McCoy had been able to play.
“It wouldn’t have been close,” he said.
Mack wasn’t pleased later I used the line but it was…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2024-11-26 22:03:00
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