AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — When Dabo Swinney became the head coach at Clemson back in 2009, he reached out to several established football coaches. He wanted to bend their ear a little and learn the different ways they run their programs.
However, only one coach got back to Swinney.
“A lot of the older guys took up for me and helped me when I was a younger head coach,” North Carolina head coach Mack Brown told The Clemson Insider at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida as part of the ACC Spring Meetings.
Brown, who returned to North Carolina last December as head coach, at the time was at Texas, where he had just led the Longhorns back to the national championship game.