GoHeels Exclusive: Monday Notebook

By Pat James, GoHeels.com

Reflecting on North Carolina's 43-41 six-overtime defeat against Virginia Tech on Saturday, Mack Brown said he determined that loss is among the toughest he's suffered in his 41 years of collegiate coaching.

As hard as it was on him, it also took a toll on his players.

"We had a loss earlier in the year," Brown told reporters on Monday, "and I walked in, they were all laughing and cutting up and, and I said, 'This isn't right. If you're laughing and cutting up and OK with the loss, then you probably didn't put enough into it because it's got to hurt you.' And, and on their way home Saturday night, they were devastated. I walked into this room and they were whipped.…