Chansky’s Notebook: Call It Showtime

Posted Jun 21, 2021
Mack Brown turns 70 one week before his nationally ranked Tar Heels open the 2021 season at Virginia Tech. How much has Brown changed since he first coached UNC in the 1980s and ‘90s? Brown now jokes about having to keep up his shoe game. He may not actually be hip, but he knows how to surround himself and his staff with young people who are. (Chapelboro.com)

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