Mack is never any at fault
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Mack did his job. Everybody loves Mack. He healed the divide from the years with Larry. Supposedly recruited better, and helped raise a ton of cash. Now everyone can talk about winning 9 games, albeit against a weak ACC, but UNC in reality isn't a bit closer to moving to the next level than the day he arrived on campus. Might be time for Mack to walk off into the sunset. Then maybe the powers that be would open up the bank and go hire a coach that is a big time winner and get very serious about football.
Chizik has been an absolute disaster. More talent. More experience. Weaker schedule. Complete disaster. What a dumb move that was. Unfortunately, I think we're stuck with him.
I'm not sure he's been a disaster. The defense did get better. And, this game was one of their better games. And look at the players that came in for a lot of the injured starters, and they did just as well as the starters.
May l ask anyone with more football knowledge than me why, WHY, WHY do we consistently hand the ball
to a running back on first and ten only to watch him gain no yardage?
On second and long everyone in the stadium knows Drake is gonna pass and good defenses adjust accordingly.
to a running back on first and ten only to watch him gain no yardage?
On second and long everyone in the stadium knows Drake is gonna pass and good defenses adjust accordingly.
They've talked a lot about trying to win first down. This team has a lot of warts that have been covered up by good QB over the last few years. But the biggest problem has been winning at the LOS.
The "divide" existed only because our new AD made a terrible hire in Fedora, and then to top it off gave him an extension because he had one decent season (which cost the Athletic Department a ton of money).
Mack needs to retire, but I don't trust Bubba to make the next hire.
That's not why it existed and Fed definitely wasn't the first choice. Your obsession with Bubba is odd. Especially when you blame him for things he doesn't really control. I'm guessing if you got a divorce you would somehow blame it on him.
I don't either really to be honest. But when Mack does step aside, I would hope that UNC would open the bank vault and decide that they want to make a real effort to be a power in football. History says they won't do that as the tradition seems to be to hire a "coach on the rise". But nobody can tell me that the money isn't there to go compete for a proven big time winner
conf-wise ACC money from espn isn't that great though, isn't that partly why we want out?
I'm not talking about conference money. There are enough deep pockets connected to Chapel Hill to more than afford anybody they might want.
I think Fed was a good hire given the looming NCAA sanctions. Year 1 we won the coastl, then in his fourth yr he got us to 8th nationally heading into the Clemson game which we lost , then final 15th. The sanctions immediately hurt recruiting and coaches knew that would happen. Beggars can't be choosers.
Perhaps the extension thing is questionable since things obviously hit the fan '17 & '18 and it became obvious his D recruiting/retention was disastrous. But 2016 was a decent yr. We swept FSU/Mia both in Florida both while they were top-20. The hurricane game was flukey. We lost three of our final 4, but those were by a combined ten points.
In hindsight the extension should've been postponed, but it would've been a huge gamble to let him walk. And he'd made big corrections in firing that D early D staff. His own stubborness and recruiting/retention flaws were what doomed him, but early recruiting saction-limits didn't help.
It was 45 minutes. I'll try. It's definitely worth watching.
Basically, Mack has resolved to focus on what he can change. He's going to enjoy the accomplishments from this season, focus on them and not fixate on "what we could have done", or should have done, for that matter.
He shed some light on how the $$$ is going to affect college football going forward. He acknowledged that the kids deserved something, but to have it where teams with deep pockets can basically buy their best team means it's going to be totally different from hear on out. UNC doesn't have the $$$ to compete. Frankly, I think it's pathetic to have to come up with 10 million every year! That's absurd.
He also took some funny jabs at the "journalists" asking the questions, and people "on the internet" that they cater to with their content. How these boards are mostly miserable and thrive on misery and second guessing and criticizing players, coaches, etc..
TL;DR... Enjoy the successes as much as you can and forget the losses/misfortunes as best you can.
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