# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-12-02T17:32:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Sunday, Dec. 1 was Mack Brown’s last official day as a UNC employee. Brown enjoyed a dinner with members of the football program’s Senior Class of 2024, just 24 hours after his curtain call along the Kenan Stadium sidelines.

The now-former UNC head coach took some time after the 35-30 loss to NC State – his fourth in a row to the rival Wolfpack – to publicize his version of the events of the past week, one which saw him fired for the first time in his career. Despite reports the Hall of Famer was unwilling to leave his post, on Saturday evening Brown told a different story.

“I agree with the administration that we need a change of leadership at the top,” Brown said. “I just wanted it to happen after the season was over. These poor kids have had so much turmoil in their lives. I think the administration’s into finding a football coach, and I’m into saving lives.”

Unfortunately for Brown, the new realities of college football require a program going through a coaching change to expedite the process as much as possible. The next window of the transfer portal opens on Dec. 9, with multiple Tar Heels already rumored to be entering. Installing the next head coach as quickly as possible to lock down the roster – and kicking out the old coach with the same speed – is mandatory.

This was not the case in the old world of college football, which Brown says he better relates to. The explosion of the portal, NIL payments and revenue sharing just in the last half-decade have made college football a foreign landscape to those who swore by the old ways. That includes the 73-year-old Brown.

“It’s a great time for me to get out,” he said. “This isn’t the game that I signed up for.”

Tap the link in our bio to read more comments made by Brown, game coverage of the Tar Heels' loss, and who the football team has named interim coach as it begins a national search for Brown's replacement.

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