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FORT WORTH, Texas — Mack Brown is back to living in Austin, Texas, during the winter and through the spring, and plans to spend the summer at the family’s home in the North Carolina mountains. He is certainly at peace nearly three months after coaching his final game for the Tar Heels.
“We were doing that before and it worked,” Brown said. “I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I may do some TV, I’ll probably do some podcasts. I enjoyed that. … You can do it from North Carolina just as easy as anywhere.”
While the 73-year-old Brown was frustrated by how his departure was handled, the College Football Hall of Fame member reiterated that he was ready to be done coaching after a second stint with the Tar Heels, and is pulling for them to be successful under new coach Bill Belichick.
“I think the frustration was it was probably more political than anything else,” Brown said. “They knew I was going to be through at the end of the year, but there were some, a lot of people, that weren’t on the same page. So it didn’t really matter in the end.”
Brown became the first non-quarterback, and first coach, recognized as a Legends Award recipient during the Davey O’Brien awards dinner. That was also when Cam Ward, who exceled in his only season at Miami and could be the NFL’s top draft pick, was presented the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback.
The winningest coach in Tar Heels history, Brown said he didn’t want to announce any change before the regular-season finale against rival N.C. State. But it was in the days leading up to the Thanksgiving week game that North Carolina said Brown wouldn’t be returning after six seasons in his second stint there.
“At North Carolina at that time, without revenue sharing, there wasn’t enough money, so you couldn’t compete. We had $4…
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Publish date : 2025-02-19 17:39:00
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