The Latest Breaking News from Mack Brown

The freshman, who flipped his commitment from Alabama to the Tar Heels, commented on playing in his home state.

Appalachian State president Dr. John E. Thomas and athletic director Jim Garner grabbed coach Jerry Moore before his introductory press conference in 1989 and wanted to get one thing straight before he addressed the media.

North Carolina barely defeated Appalachian State, 63-61, in one of the wildest football games you will ever see.

Drake Maye “earned the right” to be North Carolina’s starter at quarterback when the Tar Heels face Florida A&M Saturday in the season opener. Just how much time he spends under center will depend on his play.

Mack Brown slid so easily back into his old job, like shrugging on a rumpled old sweatshirt on a cool fall morning, that it’s easy to forget now, almost four years later, what a tremendous gamble this really was. It’s not that it had never been tried before, but there…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — College football is out of control, the economics involved becoming so extraordinary that football’s gravitational force is warping the very boundaries of college sports in which it exists. As the ACC reckons with where it fits in this new landscape, at least one coach has come to…

ARLINGTON, Texas — The good news for Brent Venables is that if his first head coaching gig doesn’t work out, he can always find work as a tour guide or the next Billy Mays. The man can talk. Berry Tramel, the estimable Oklahoma sportswriter, timed the preamble of Venables’ introductory…

RALEIGH, N.C. — And Happy First Anniversary to college athletics’ NIL era. Roses, chocolates, maybe a Cameo message from your favorite college athlete all make for an appropriate celebratory gift. A year ago Friday, on July 1, 2021, the NCAA granted college athletes the right to profit off of their…

Steve Sarkisian may never be Mack Brown’s equal in Austin, but he had the presence of mind not to make one of Mack’s biggest mistakes.