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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3055317, member: 1145"] That has always been the only real drawback for Mack, keeping him from winning more than he has. At UNC, he floundered with OCs. I think the end of his time in Austin was a fairly normal mild depression after a failure that hurt very deeply. Mack knew that his teams with Colt McCoy at QB were what he had hoped to build: he had 9 consecutive teams win at least 10 games. But the media ragged on him about winning only 1 National Championship and only 2 Conference Championship Games. After the 2005 Title team, many in the media predicted a downslide, often focusing on the fact that he would play a freshman QB (either RS Jevan Snead or true freshman Colt McCoy). McCoy won the job, and Snead would eventually transfer to Ole Miss (and have 2 very good seasons). McCoy was what Vince Young was not: a coach on the field type. And his 4 years were built up to another National Championship team. But an injury to McCoy during the game made certain that Bama won. Brown seemed then to have lost focus, and he has admitted that is what happened. He brooded over that lost National Championship, in part because he wanted to see McCoy go out the big winner, in part because he wanted to prove he could win it all without a freak of an athlete for the media to focus on. He never got it back. Brown never stopped loving Chapel Hill. He met his (2nd ) wife there - she was in real estate design, also divorced when they were introduced by a UNC basketball booster. She never stopped loving Chapel Hill. My fear was that Mack would not be able to have his head back on, but what I've seen with his coordinator hires soothed me. He has never run a Air Raid before, but he thinks that is what is best for UNC - I agree with that. He knew the UNC D has sucked, and he got the Army DC who has shown he can build a unit that is better on the field than the sum of its parts suggests. [/QUOTE]

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