Yesterday, Mack Brown took questions via Zoom from sports reporters that had one eye on the (hopefully) upcoming football season, but another eye focused squarely on the swath of viral destruction in Chapel Hill. Four COVID-19 clusters on campus in the span of three days forced UNC to abandon in-person classes, pushing all students to pre-arranged remote learning. This has made national news with coverage from the Washington Post and the New York Times, and is another false start towards a potential fall football campaign.
While some regular students are stumbling into the semester practicing social distancing on campus, then partying in frat houses after class, the football team has been doing remarkably well within their unofficial bubble.