Mack Brown: UNC 'More Confident' as Training Camp Begins

Posted Aug 3, 2019
North Carolina will be in just shorts (no pads) for the first two days before transitioning to shorts and shoulder pads for the next two days. The first day of full pads will be the fifth practice on Tuesday. "When you learn to swim you've got to have a pool. When you learn to play football you've got to have pads," UNC head coach Mack Brown said on Friday. (Inside Carolina)

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