Here is some of what Mack Brown said on Tuesday. The Tar Heels have not had a positive test in a month after 37 players, coaches and/or staff members proved positive in early July. To keep his players safe during practice, they are either wearing plastic double shields on their helmets or putting on masks […]

Apparently, the Power 5 Conferences are to each its own. Midway through Monday, you would have thought that college football this fall was toast. Reports from ESPN and other outlets said announcements from the Big Ten and Pac 12 were imminent, with the other three big-boy leagues to follow. Then came tweets from star players, […]

Has the rubber finally met the road for major college football? Since the coronavirus and COVID-19 have crippled this country, we’ve been talking about what happens when they actually try to play football in college. Teams can social distance in meetings, at the training table, in the locker and weight rooms, and even doing drills. […]

You could call Carolina’s revised schedule back-ended and backhanded. Silly me. When the re-juggled football opponents came out for the 2020 season, I thought for sure Notre Dame would open here in Chapel Hill — a national TV gem no matter how long the season lasted. Instead, the Fighting Irish are coming to town on Friday, November 27, […]

Looks like the President won’t be watching many games these days. One NBA player said it best after Donald Trump raged at teams kneeling during the National Anthem along the Black Lives Matter sideline to support the fight against racial and social injustice. POTUS called the peaceful protest “disgraceful” and reiterated that he will turn off […]

All Pac 12 student-athlete demands are doable, except the big one. Football players in the Pac-12, which has long been considered the edgiest college conference with the brainiest athletes, feel like they have leverage with ultimatums if they are going to play this fall. Many in the media agree this is the time to play […]

Shocker. Mack Brown, the big flipper, just became the flippee. I first paid attention to recruiting after becoming a Carolina fan and studying Dean Smith’s methods and policies. One of them was when a kid Carolina wanted verbally committed to another school, Smith wrote him a “good luck” letter and backed off. I can remember […]

Creating bubbles may be the best way for the games to go on. Athletes from the SEC and Pac 12 appear close to striking before the college football season gets underway. Both conferences have received notices from athletes who are worried that the health and safety measures laid out by those leagues are not sufficient. […]

Apparently, the ACC beat the SEC in a game of COVID Chicken. When releasing its revamped list of 10-game opponents for each member, the ACC left a TBA non-conference 11th game that was seen as an attempt for classic rivalries to continue, such as Clemson-South Carolina, Florida State-Florida and Georgia Tech-Georgia. Shockingly, the SEC turned those opportunities […]

Against steep odds, the ACC makes a bold — and maybe historic — move. As we’ve been speculating for a month, John Swofford leveraged his relationship with Notre Dame to come up with a creative format for 2020, which if the pandemic allows, makes for a helluva football season. First off, the ACC commissioner played […]