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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4109824, member: 1145"]
We had winners long before Lawrence Taylor arrived (he played on our last ACC champion in 1980). Back in the old days, there were only 4 bowls: Rose, Cotton, Sugar, and Orange. UNC played in 3 consecutive bowls following the '47, '48, and '49 seasons. There were quite a few major powers back then that had yet to accomplish that feat.

The UNC administration began putting the brakes on UNC football as soon as two time Heisman runner up Charlie Justice graduated. It did so in the name of opposing 'professionalism in college sports.'

Jim Tatum (the coach who won Maryland's National Championship and who before that went to Oklahoma and totally restructured the program in 1 year and then headed back east, leaving his top assistant Bud Wilkinson in charge), was a UNC grad and All-American. His nephew Felix Blanchard played at UNC as a freshman, but then was drafted by the Army specifically to play football at West Point. Tatum was brought back to UNC from Maryland to rebuild, but he died unexpectedly, probably from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. The UNC admin struck once again and kept the program hamstrung for another decade.

The UNC administration made certain not to hire another SEC guy when Bill Dooley left, and it also made certain we had no search to replace Mack Brown in '97 - we just took the DC, who in 1 year took a Top 5 team down one that barely won 6 games. The UNC admin today seems to love old Mack precisely because he assembled a weak staff that can do nothing but help him recruit talent that gets wasted.
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