This is a Mack thing. He got so many disappointing 5 stars in his first tenure. That's why the program collapsed after he left. He had stocked the cupboard with fine crystal only to discover it was actually cheap glass.
Eh, I think that is a lot more accurate of a description for how he left the second time. He left the cupboard absolutely loaded the first time when he went to Texas. The problem was the athletic director listening to the players and hiring the defensive coordinator Carl Torbush instead of actually conducting a national search for what, at the time, would’ve been one of the best college football jobs in the country. The reason the program collapsed after he left was because of back to back disastrous coaching hires completely crater the program. But the defensive players that Mack Brown left the first time were some of the best and toughest we’ve ever had, and went on to be some of the best pros we’ve ever had. He also left behind the consensus number one recruit in the entire country in quarterback Ronald Curry.
You surely know better than I do. I just remember there being a lot of big time recruits not panning out near the end of Mack's tenure. Maybe the original info and/or the memory was wrong. I'm thinking of guys like Domonique Williams (I might be mixing up names here; I'm thinking of the RB who played QB against Furman in that disastrous loss).
Yeah, unfortunately the thing with Curry is we will never know how good he would have really been because of the Achilles tear as you mentioned, and then the fact that he tried to also play basketball for Carolina. I know Charlie Ward did it but it seems damn near impossible to be an elite football quarterback for a top-tier program and elite basketball point guard for a top-tier program simultaneously. I think had Curry focused entirely on one or the other, his story would’ve been a lot different.
Silver, Grimes, Rice and Shaw all being busts was pretty awful and unreal.
"I find him extremely handsome" #Blindside
Sometimes literacy is a curse.
I was fine until I got to the raw steaks part.
Listen, you really have to stop teasing calla and ramrouser with posts like this. They had to go watch ICE immigrant prisoner porn to finish themselves off after reading this.
We have regularly beat dook and Wake -- that is one thing Mack was good at (second half against dook last year, notwithstanding). State, on the other hand, needs to be dealt with.
That is definitely NOT what was said.
Which article is this in?
247sports.com
Yes. I assume that is where Mpaer came up with that. I would not want him on my team in a game of competitive telephone.ACC Kickoff: Commissioner’s Tone Masks UNC’s Clearer Exit Path
As currently constructed, the league’s days appear numbered. And sources confirm the Tar Heels are highly interested in making a move.
I am assuming this is the paragraph being referred to:
“But make no mistake, now, multiple sources told IC, the SEC is where the Tar Heels are aiming under the leadership of Roberts and Newmark, should UNC move to leave the ACC for another league, perhaps in the near future. Sources said the 2030-31 school year, when the ACC's decreasing exit fees dip from $93 million to the flat $75 million threshold, would figure to become an important final line of demarcation, if the Tar Heels haven't made their departure sooner. Seven decades ago, UNC was one of the original member schools in the 1953 founding of the ACC.”
