Cleaning up penalties: Tar Heels improvement starts with a spotless locker room

Posted Oct 4, 2019
Before Mack Brown and the North Carolina coaching staff began to address the penalty problems that have plagued the program in recent years, they took aim at something that seemingly had nothing to do with holding linebacker or jumping offside. “We said, ‘Clean up your locker room, clean up your table in the cafeteria after you get through,” Brown said. (Heels Maven)

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