Tylee Craft’s Death Makes Football Game Unlike Any Other for North Carolina

Posted Oct 12, 2024
Mack Brown, his coaching headphones around his neck, shared an emotional hug with September Craft, the mother of Tylee Craft. She shook and trembled during the long embrace. And Brown said that affecting moment all but delivered the very message he had been trying to avoid. "September would not let me go," he said later, after the Tar Heels' loss. (Inside Carolina)

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