So Carolina has their head coach.
The process wasn’t really the type we’re used to at UNC. Every basketball coaching search since Dean Smith’s retirement, for example, has had some sort of involvement with the basketball family. Even this most recent hire of Hubert Davis had the seas part such that Davis was really the only option. In football, there have been extenuating circumstances in just about each hire since Mack Brown 1.0, to the point where they really didn’t draw that much attention.
With Mack Brown 2.0’s dismissal, the Tar Heels—for the first time in a generation—had the chance to completely reset the direction of the program and change the its perception.