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Topic: North Carolina hires Mack Brown

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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #56 on: December 20, 2018, 06:38:14 PM »
I like southern women.

I like grits.

I swear some of you won't be happy until you suck every bit of fun out of life.  I pity you.
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #57 on: December 20, 2018, 06:43:18 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 20, 2018, 06:38:14 PM
I like southern women.

I like grits.

I swear some of you won't be happy until you suck every bit of fun out of life.  I pity you.
Said Mr Beer snob, Barbecue snob, Music snob, Truck snob, Travel Trailer snob, Vacation snob.  Oh my.  Let’s see what else?   You seem to know best about everything.  Life MUST be great when you’re the authority on every nuanced detail in life and you can look down on the ignorant opinions of others.  Eh, nice guy?
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #58 on: December 20, 2018, 06:45:28 PM »
BTW, Merry Chrstmas to you & your beautiful family.
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #59 on: December 20, 2018, 09:52:23 PM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on December 20, 2018, 06:43:18 PM
Said Mr Beer snob, Barbecue snob, Music snob, Truck snob, Travel Trailer snob, Vacation snob.  Oh my.  Let’s see what else?   You seem to know best about everything.  Life MUST be great when you’re the authority on every nuanced detail in life and you can look down on the ignorant opinions of others.  Eh, nice guy?
It's pretty fabulous, I gotta say.
And Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! :)
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« Reply #60 on: July 09, 2019, 11:37:53 PM »
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #61 on: July 10, 2019, 08:20:34 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on December 20, 2018, 05:01:14 PM
some things just never change

Mack was always a great recruiter

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/national-signing-day-north-carolina-flips-four-star-top-100-qb-from-florida-state/
I thought they would recruit better, but not that much better (so far).  UNC should be at least a 7-8 win team.  I think the previous coach had "soft practices".
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« Reply #62 on: July 10, 2019, 11:12:20 AM »
The previous coach was Larry Fedora, who had had success as the OC at Oklahoma State and the HFC at Southern Miss.

If he indeed had soft practices, I wonder if he adopted the philosophy that some have ascribed to Mike Riley, who was reasonably successful at Oregon State, much less so at Nebraska.

Supposedly Riley practiced soft to avoid injuries, because he didn't have enough talented depth, and by the end of the season he usually had a pretty good team.  At Oregon State, anyway.  It didn't seem to work for him at Nebraska.

Or maybe all of that had nothing to do with why Fedora failed at UNC.  Maybe it was because he was an outspoken opponent of some NCAA policy changes that were favorable to athletes at the expense of the schools' control over them.  Maybe he lost the confidence of his players.
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #63 on: July 10, 2019, 01:32:59 PM »
we'll probably never know

Riley was just plain soft, not just practices.  The practices were just what folks saw and reported on.

the PAC is not the B1G, might be able to survive with soft in the PAC.

Being soft on 18-22 year old men is not a way to succeed.

Some kids don't have the self discipline to do the right things to succeed.  Such as go to practice, practice the right way when they get there, study the playbook, get to the weight room, hard out while yer there, eat right, get your sleep, go to class, study for exams.

Riley let all of that slide.
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #64 on: July 10, 2019, 03:52:26 PM »
UNC had a rash of injuries two years in a row.  I suspect that could be because they didn't practice at "game speed", so the players were not ready for game speed.  That is speculation on my part, somewhat supported by how soft they appeared, to me, to play in games.  They couldn't tackle worth spit, they would be in position and kind of flail, semi-arm tackle, and the running back would barely be slowed. They did have an abnormal number of injuries.

One year could be bad luck.  Two years is a trend.

Anyway, should be an interesting team this year.

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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #65 on: July 10, 2019, 04:40:06 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 10, 2019, 01:32:59 PM
we'll probably never know

Riley was just plain soft, not just practices.  The practices were just what folks saw and reported on.

the PAC is not the B1G, might be able to survive with soft in the PAC.

Being soft on 18-22 year old men is not a way to succeed.

Some kids don't have the self discipline to do the right things to succeed.  Such as go to practice, practice the right way when they get there, study the playbook, get to the weight room, hard out while yer there, eat right, get your sleep, go to class, study for exams.

Riley let all of that slide.
He certainly was a bad fit with the public perception of Nebraska football for half a century before he got there.  Nebraska seemed to lose its way with the firing of Frank Solich and the subsequent hires of Bill Callahan, Bo Pelini, and Mike Riley.  I hope that Scott Frost is the guy who gets the Big Red ship turned back in the right direction.

Sorry for the hijack.  Back to Mack Brown!

Does he have yellow teeth, or what?  ;)
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #66 on: July 10, 2019, 04:53:52 PM »
bu cause
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #67 on: July 11, 2019, 07:07:03 AM »
My premise is that soft practices could be intended to reduce practice injuries and lead to game injuries.

I'm obviously not sure about that at all.
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #68 on: September 01, 2019, 12:14:06 PM »
Nice to see Mack get a win in his first game, and against nearby regional rival South Carolina no less.
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Re: North Carolina hires Mack Brown
« Reply #69 on: September 01, 2019, 04:04:26 PM »
Yep thats Mack 1 and the sec 0

A step in the right direction

congrats MB
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