All forced exits are awkward, but Mack Brown’s might just top most of them. Just days ahead of UNC’s regular-season finale, the greatest coach in Tar Heels’ football history was politely asked to leave — or, rather, told he would not be returning beyond 2024.

North Carolina became the first Power Four program to make a coaching change last week when it fired longtime coach Mack Brown, who was in the sixth season of his second stint in Chapel Hill. Brown wa

With the transfer portal officially opening on Monday, Dec. 9, the clock is ticking on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s search for its next head football coach. North Carolina fired head coach Mack Brown,