Summer Scheming: UNC Tar Heels Football

Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images“Mack is Back,” rang through the ACC upon Mack Browns hiring by the UNC Athletics Department. Mack Brown returned to Chapel Hill, where he was the head football coach from 1988-1997. Brown, a former Vanderbilt and Florida State running back, started his coaching career at FSU. After short stints around the country, Brown became the head coach at Appalachian State in 1983, then the Oklahoma OC in ‘84, before becoming the Tulane head coach from 1985-1987.

Following Tulane was Brown’s first tenure at UNC, then his most famous run as the Texas Longhorns head coach from 1998-2013. While head coach of the Longhorns, Brown won the 2005 BCS National Championship…