Recent content by CFordUNC

My God. Unfathomable.

Hate to ask a stupid question like this, but is it pretty much a certainty that there would be fatalities?

Now that's a great silver lining!

Completely agree. And this really gets at what has irritated me so much about this whole thing from the get-go last December. When we hired Mack Brown, we hired a coach who was way past his prime, had been fired from his most recent job in which he won a national championship and played for...

Curt Cignetti took Indiana to the playoffs in year 1 with a bunch of former JMU players. And he's probably going to play for, and maybe even win, the national championship in year 2. You can absolutely very quickly turn around a program, by hiring someone who knows how to build a college roster...

It's a $20 million buyout, not a $30 million buyout. It's a lot of money either way, but $20M and $30M are significantly different when talking buyout numbers. Second, buyout funds are almost always raised predominately from private support, not from athletics department line item budget...

Good question. It's been so long since I've been on IC that honestly I can't remember. It might have been that he had the offer from Ohio State and then UNC wasn't willing or able to match it maybe? Definitely can't remember for sure so I may be entirely wrong.

Well, every Carolina fan that moves the goal posts for our $10 million/year 6-time Super Bowl winning coach from "we're going to have the 33rd NFL team and compete for ACC and national championships" to "well, maybe we can finish 5-7 this year and if we're really lucky maybe we'll get a really...

I had forgotten Saban saying that until you just reminded me of it, but I wonder how much of that was him being fed the narrative by one of his best friends. Belichick is not dumb- I have no doubt that he was probably shell-shocked by how bad our team looked in training camp, and I wonder if...

Interesting. He started the opening game against Texas. I saw him when they were announcing the starting lineup on ABC. Haven’t kept up with him beyond that other than to know he is a contributor on the best team in America, so he certainly could have or should have been a contributor on our...

This is not directed at anyone in particular on this thread, but more a general statement about our football fan base at large. I think a lot of Carolina fans want a big name coach but small name expectations. By that, I mean, people want us to hire someone like Bill Belichick who is the most...

Beau Atkinson

Thanks a ton for the very reasonable viewpoints. I disagree with a lot of them but appreciate the opportunity to debate them! I'll push back significantly on the point that Mack left the cupboard bare. I think that is major revisionist history. There are two defensive guys who are starting for...

Speaking of election day, really hard to believe it’s been a year ago today since the Harris/Trump election. Feels like we’ve lived about a decade in the last year.