If Larry Fedora hadn’t taken a graduate assistant job at Baylor in 1990, he might never have become a college coach at all.
"Well I’d probably still be coaching high school ball in the state of Texas," Fedora said, according to the (Raleigh) News & Observer’s Andrew Carter.
The job with the Bears was Fedora’s first college gig, and Carter takes a nice look back at the stint that kick-started the man who revitalized the Tar Heels and brought them to Wednesday’s Russell Athletic Bowl against Baylor.
Fedora’s wife was pregnant with the couple’s first child when he took the job, leaving his assistant post at Garland (Texas) High.