Extra Points: Change Of Venue

It was roughly one-quarter of a mile from the old Kenan Field House, across the Rams Head parking lot, up Ridge Road to the entry to Navy Field practice complex which Tar Heel football players and coaches had to tread before and after every football practice. The walk became slightly longer when the football headquarters moved in 1998 to the west end zone of Kenan Stadium, and the preferred pathway then evolved to exiting the North Gate of the stadium, walking along Stadium Drive, cutting in back of Teague dorm and entering the practice area through a back gate.

Mack Brown used ride from his office to the practice field in the BMW of close friend Dick Coop, a professor of educational…