Why Mack Brown's return to North Carolina at age 67 makes perfect sense

Posted Jul 18, 2019
A lifetime of success in coaching, culminating with winning the 2005 national title in arguably the greatest college football game ever played, has given Mack Brown plenty of nostalgia to surround himself in his second go-around at North Carolina. But it’s also that very notion of looking to the past that initially made me skeptical, until I listened to Brown explain it. (USA Today)

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