In many aspects, Mack Brown is in a much better situation than he was in 1988. Rather than having to wait a decade for major upgrades to the football facilities in the form of the Kenan Football Center (which Brown himself never used during his first tenure), there have been key transformations without Brown even setting on the sidelines for the redux.
In 2016, Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham and then-coach Larry Fedora, among others, decided that real grass was the preferred option for Kenan Memorial Stadium.
Over two years later, this decision was reversed and the latest technology in artificial grass was installed in the 92-year-old stadium.