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Larry Fedora defends addition of controversial Illinois coach Tim Beckham to UNC staff

Nearly one year after being fired as head coach at Illinois for alleged abuse and misuse of power, Tim Beckman is back in college football as a volunteer assistant with North Carolina. Yet despite the controversial addition to his staff, UNC coach Larry Fedora is supporting Beckman.

"I don’t believe everything I read, all right," Fedora said of Beckman, via The News & Observer. "I know Tim. I know his side of the story, also. So I was comfortable with it. If I wouldn’t have been, obviously I wouldn’t have brought him. I wouldn’t have allowed him to be in our program.