Mack Brown will be fighting history on second round at North Carolina Posted Nov 28, 2018 Mack Brown is not the first coach to return to a job he once held. He's not even the first coach to return to a job he once held at North Carolina. Carl Snavely and Jim Tatum, who were both -- like Brown -- elected to membership in the College Football Hall of Fame, left for other jobs and came back to Chapel Hill. (ESPN.com)