īrown then transferred to Florida State University.
In his time playing for the Vanderbilt Commodores, he played for Bill Pace and rushed 82 times for 364 yards and three touchdowns, as well as catching seven passes for 50 yards and a touchdown during the 1970 season. He accepted a football scholarship to Vanderbilt University, where his brother Watson Brown was the starting quarterback. The Tennessean selected him as the state player of the year. After his senior season, he won All-State as well as Prep All-America honors and was selected one of the nation's top running backs by Scholastic Magazine his senior year. Playing career īrown was a three-sport star at Putnam County High School, playing football, basketball and baseball. During his undergraduate years, Brown was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He later received a graduate degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1976. Mack attended Vanderbilt University before attending Florida State University and graduating in 1974. Mack's older brother Watson also coached, and was the head football coach at a total of six Division I football schools, ending his career with their hometown school, Tennessee Tech. His father, Melvin Brown, was also a coach and an administrator. His grandfather, Eddie Watson, was an athlete at Tennessee Tech and a coach at Putnam County High School for more than three decades. Brown's family had a long history with football. During his teenage years, he attended Putnam County High School. Since returning to Chapel Hill, Brown has become Carolina's all-time winningest coach, passing Dick Crum for most wins in program history.īrown was born as the middle of three boys (brothers Mel and Watson) on August 27, 1951, in Cookeville, Tennessee. He resigned after the 2013 Alamo Bowl, leaving as the second-winningest coach in program history (11 wins behind Darrell Royal). Brown achieved his 200th career win during the 2008 season, making him the first Texas coach to reach that mark. In 2006, he was awarded the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award for "Coach of the Year". Brown's Longhorns defeated Red River Showdown conference rival Oklahoma in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2013. He is credited with revitalizing the North Carolina and Texas football programs.īrown coached the Longhorns to victory against the top-ranked USC Trojans at the 2006 Rose Bowl game to cap off an undefeated season, win a second consecutive Rose Bowl, and the national championship in what has been considered the greatest game in college football history. Prior to his head coach positions at Texas and North Carolina, Brown was head coach for Appalachian State and later, Tulane.
Two days after Carolina fired Larry Fedora in November 2018, Brown was announced to return as the Tar Heels' head coach after a five-year hiatus from coaching, which he spent as an ESPN analyst. In 2018, Brown was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He is currently in his second stint as the head football coach for the University of North Carolina, where he first coached from 1988 until departing in 1997, when he left Chapel Hill to become head coach for the University of Texas. William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is an American college football coach.
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