It has been quite a year for Mack Brown. He has lost his job and been given official legend status by an award committee all within the last 60 days.
The Davey O’Brien Award, the one that names the best quarterback in the country, per the voting committee, announced this weekend that Brown is this year’s Legends Award recipient.
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Brown has a record of 288-155-1 in 36 years as a head coach at Appalachian State, Tulane, Texas, and two stints at North Carolina. He won the national championship with Texas in the 2005 season.
It is the second stint at UNC where the story gets prickly. After a five-year absence from coaching, Brown took over from Larry Fedora in Chapel Hill after the 2018 season. He coached the Tar Heels from 2019 through the end of the regular season in 2024. Brown finished with a 44-33 overall record during that time. He was 27-23 in ACC play in those years…