The North Carolina Tar Heels are 6-4 this season and will have a road game this weekend against the Boston College Eagles 5-5. North Carolina is bowl-eligible for this season. They will have an interesting future ahead after the 2024 season.
At one point this season, head coach Mack Brown thought about stepping down as head coach. He is 73 years old and it will be intriguing to see how much longer he will be coaching this football program for.
North Carolina Tar Heels Head Coach Mack Brown Will Be Back Next Season
According to Pete Nakos of on3.com, he reports that Mack Brown will return after the 2024 season to coach the North Carolina Tar Heels. Brown loves doing what he does and he feels like he has to be there for others. The Tar Heels head coach told the media on Wednesday:
“I love the organization of football. I love fixing things that are broken, I love planning for a game, the strategy that goes into it. But most of the time – I’ll get mad at transfer portal, I’ll get mad at NIL, I’ll get mad about this, I’ll be mad at the university. Then, I’ll go down and eat lunch with the players and say, ‘You know what? This is why I’m here.’ When I see one with his head down or he’s got some joy because his sister won a contest or won a basketball game or he lost a girlfriend or flunked a test or dropped a ball on Saturday, that’s my purpose. My purposes it to fix him, and try to help him get to a better place. And what I did at Texas, I started planning on trying to retire, and it didn’t work. I wasn’t as good at what I was doing … I was trying to make sure everybody was okay. I decided this time that I wouldn’t do that. I’m gonna work as hard as I can every day of my life to do what I’m supposed to do. And right now, my role is to help the young people. To do that, you’ve got to win games or you can’t stay. Everybody knows that. That’s the modern business.”
In 35 years as a head coach with college football, he has a 282-148-1 record. The three teams he has coached are the Tulane Green Wave, the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the Texas Longhorns. Brown still wants to make an impact on other people’s lives until he feels like he can’t do it anymore.
Fans React
Time to retire
— Big Panda Chaos (@BigPandaChaos1) November 21, 2024
Lol everyone is funny as hell about MB. Couldn’t care less,but do tell us all who would coach a mid pk. Acc team just hoping for a good bowl game knowing it will never be a national champ? It’s so easy to tear down and not think about what’s next. I’m a ECU pirate I get it.
— Blue Angels Rock (@RustyW2fan) November 21, 2024
Unc will have to kick him out like Texas had to do. Good coach but sits in your living room and won’t leave.
— SContractor (@TheContractor12) November 21, 2024
Good. Mack is the best coach we have ever had. In a down year we are on our way to 8 or 9 wins. Next year the Carolina Family will be in the playoffs
— Jeffrey Smith🐏 (@jeffrey_smithhh) November 20, 2024
I hope to never be so bad at my job that people intentionally post terrible pictures of me. Maybe the bar is too low for my job performance
— Pope John XII (@Pope_johnxii) November 20, 2024
It is going to be interesting to see what happens to the program the day Brown decides to retire. They could finish with eight or nine wins this season. At some point, North Carolina will need to find a succession plan. The North Carolina Tar Heels were hoping for a better season and competing for an ACC title.
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