Sources said North Carolina coach Mack Brown said his team “will walk away and step down if it’s a problem” following Saturday’s 70-50 loss to James Madison. 247 game inside Carolina. The players supported Brown and blamed themselves after Brown made his speech.
“He will be in the office tomorrow and back to work,” a source told Inside Carolina on Saturday night. “Go in and it’s a normal Sunday.”
North Carolina entered its Week 4 game against James Madison as a 10.5-point favorite, but allowed 53 points in the first half against the Dukes. North Carolina had no answer for Dukes quarterback Alonza Barnett III, who passed for 388 yards and five touchdowns on 22 completions. He also rushed for a team-high 99 yards and two touchdowns.
It was the second time an ACC program allowed 70 points in 2017 since North Carolina’s 70-41 loss against East Carolina. The Tar Heels have allowed 40 points in 14 games under Brown and have a 6-8 record in such games. North Carolina is also 2-4 in its last six games against FBS competition.
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It was an unimaginable moment for North Carolina and Brown, an active Hall of Fame head coach who won a national championship with Texas in 2005. As IC’s Adam Smith writes:
Only five previous opponents in Carolina’s long 136-year college football history had surpassed the 60-point threshold, and JMU entered the club sixth on Saturday. The Tar Heels suffered a 70-41 loss at East Carolina in September 2014. That dubious loss represented the most points UNC had ever allowed — until now, to the Dukes, an FBS newcomer in its third season at the position.
