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Wolken: North Carolina's Larry Fedora makes two big mistakes at one time in Tim Beckman hire

North Carolina coach Larry Fedora embarrassed himself today.

Unnecessary, egregious embarrassment for himself, not to mention a university and an athletic department that doesn’t need any more of it.

No matter how much time North Carolina spent Wednesday minimizing former Illinois coach Tim Beckman’s new role on its football staff — he’s a volunteer coach, he won’t be working with players, he’s only going to be analyzing film, blah, blah, blah — the fact remains that Fedora has chosen to associate with somebody who was fired last year for mistreating players after Illinois hired the Franczek Radelet law firm out of Chicago to investigate.