Friday night in Durham, Northern High School will name its new football facility “Kenny Browning Stadium.” What a fitting tribute to the man who put football on the map at Northern. UNC Coach Mack Brown lured Browning into the college ranks, though Ken says it was a very difficult decision to leave Northern. Browning coached the defensive line at UNC. (High School OT)

Today was yet another in a long line of embarrassments under Mack 2.0. Mack has very obviously lost the ability to coach, develop, motivate, etc. He is crippling this program. If he truly loves UNC then he must step down after this year. I would say he should step down immediately but who on the team is fit to be an interim head coach? No one else on that staff is fit to coach at a higher level than pee wee football.

Tonight on ESPN we have Stanford at Syracuse: The Cardinal vs. The Orange. This Taylor's 2nd season at Stanford, and last year was a bust at 3-9. This season opens with a 7 pointless at Home too TCU, which probably should been a win by the Cardinal. 2-0 Syracuse is in its first season with HC Fran Brown, who has established a huge reputation as a top recruiter. The Orange have beaten Ohio and #23 GT at Home.

Saturday at Noon we have Moo at Clemson. The Pac has Ws over 1AA Western Carolina and mid-tier G% school La Tech, as well as a beat down to Tennessee (which now looks like it could be a playoff team and dangerous there. The Tigers got destroyed by then #1 UGA and have stomped what looks to be the worst App St team in many years.

UVA plays Coastal Carolina in Conway SC. The Hood have beaten 1AA Richmond and beaten Wake at Wake by 1. 3-0 Coastal's only game vs. a P4 team is tomorrow. So you know it was circled last Spring.

2-0 Louisville hosts GT. The Cards face ND next week, and entering that game undefeated would be very nice for the ACC.

VT hosts Rutgers, Beating any BT team is important to the ACC's reputation.

Dook heads to a small town near Nashville to face Middle Tennessee. Losing to a CUSA team would be very bad for the ACC.

The Battle for the Iron Skillet is back on the SMU campus. If the Mustangs can't upset TCU, their season could just go downhill.

3-0 Cal is at 0-3 FSU. Can Cal get to 4-0? Can FSU finally win this season? If the Bears win, will FSU add that to its lawsuit?

Miami is at USF. As the Cnes are the only highly ranked ACC team, the league needs Miami to win big.

BC looked very well coached and quite tough in a 6 point loss at #6 Missori last week. This week BC hosts 3-0 Michigan St. The ACC needs a as many wins over the BT and SEC as possible.

At least I showed up today...

Pitiful home crowd at tonight’s game. Looks like 25% capacity at most on a Saturday beautiful evening. You would think the sororities and fraternities would have shown up at the very least. What is wrong that a home Saturday night game would yield such a small following?

Posted Sep 21, 2024
Kendre Harrison, who holds a UNC football offer as a five-star tight end and a UNC basketball offer as a four-star jumbo forward, began his junior campaign at prep powerhouse Providence Day School (N.C.) after spending his first two seasons suiting up for his hometown Reidsville High School (N.C.) squad. He recently transferred back to Reidsville. (Sports Illustrated)

UNC MEN’S BASKETBALL TO PLAY BLUE-WHITE SCRIMMAGE IN CHEROKEE

Limited Number of Tickets Available on Friday

CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina men’s basketball team will play three times in the preseason, beginning with a Blue-White scrimmage at Harrah’s Resort in Cherokee, N.C., on Sunday, October 13, at Noon.

A limited number of tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, September 20, through Harrah’s Cherokee Resort Events Center.

Two nights later (October 15), the Tar Heels return to FedExForum for the first time since their 2017 NCAA Elite Eight win over Kentucky as Carolina plays a preseason game vs. the Memphis Tigers in the inaugural Hoops for St. Jude® Tip Off Classic.

The proceeds from the UNC-Memphis game, which is part of a doubleheader with the South Carolina and Memphis women’s teams, will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Tar Heels and Tigers will play at 7 p.m. with the game broadcast on ESPNU.

Tickets to the Hoops for St. Jude® Tip Off Classic are available at Ticketmaster or the FedExForum box office with 100% of the proceeds going to St. Jude.

In addition, the four teams will fundraise for St. Jude from October 1–19 through Tiltify.

On October 27, the Tar Heels host Johnson C. Smith at 2 p.m. in the Smith Center. Single-game tickets for the exhibition game will go on sale in mid-October.

Carolina opens the 2024-25 regular season in the Smith Center on November 4 against Elon. On November 8, UNC travels to Lawrence, Kan., for just the second time ever to play the Kansas Jayhawks.