Just eight years ago, the Atlantic Coast Conference had perhaps the greatest collection of coaches in the history of a legendary basketball league that is now playing its 72nd season. Those days are over.
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The University of North Carolina, which has been playing football since 1888, has never paid its head football coach at the top end of the college market. Until now.
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Last season, when only five of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s then-15 teams played in the NCAA Tournament, there shouldn’t have been much mystery about who got into the Big Dance and why.
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If you’re a long-time North Carolina basketball fan, and you can’t remember the last time the Tar Heels lacked a highly productive post presence, a faulty memory is not the culprit.
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North Carolina’s football coaching search could end at any moment. Regardless of the Tar Heels’ ultimate choice, it likely will take years to determine the wisdom of their selection.
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There are seven Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs in the state of North Carolina. Four of them, including UNC, fired their head coach this season.
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When looking back, it’s easy to conclude that Hall of Fame coach Mack Brown deserved more time as the leader of North Carolina’s football program.
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When North Carolina football coach Mack Brown built the Tar Heels into a top-10 program in the 1990s, he did so almost entirely by recruiting the high school ranks with aplomb. In recent years, during his second tenure at Carolina, he has had to take a much different approach.
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Finish. Beat State. Win a bowl game. Those three goals were among the highest priorities of North Carolina coach Mack Brown back in August.
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The 2024-25 North Carolina basketball season, which officially opened Monday night with the Tar Heels’ 90-76 victory over Elon at the Dean E. Smith Center, eventually will overlap with the 10-year anniversary of Smith’s death.
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