Why blue-chip talent will follow Mack Brown back to North Carolina — again

Posted Aug 7, 2019
Mack Brown faces the same task as everybody else in the ACC, and that is accumulating enough talent to give Clemson an honest run for the ACC title. If history is anything to go off of, then Brown should be able to make headway in that endeavor: His final two North Carolina teams in 1996 and 1997 both finished with 10 wins and a top-10 national ranking. (Sporting News)

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