Mack Brown blames media for 'too high' expectations on North Carolina

North Carolina suffered its worst loss of the season so far in Week 6 against Florida State. The loss drops the Tar Heel to 3-3 on the season with losses against Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and now Florida State. After the loss, North Carolina head coach Mack Brown again said that his team was overrated entering the year, now blaming the media for setting expectations that were “too high.”

“My expectation is to win every game,” Brown said after the loss. “So three times we’ve met it and three times we haven’t. The national media expectation, the expectations for us to be a top-10 team were wrong. So I guess we should all be critical of the media for picking us too high, because we’re not that good. So you guys all screwed it up.”

Brown and North Carolina were ranked at No. 10 in the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll despite losing a lot of talent after last season.

Brown called North Carolina overrated after losing in Week 1

Brown has echoed his sentiment with the fact that North Carolina was overrated throughout this season. After UNC lost to Virginia Tech in Week 1, Brown said that they didn’t deserve the ranking they received.

“It was a hard Friday night because we had so many expectations and we were overrated as you look at it,” Brown said. “We had too many question marks coming back on offense and some new faces on defense for us to be a top ten football team and that’s why I don’t like preseason rankings. Let people earn it. ‘Virginia Tech beats a top-ten team’ well we weren’t a top-ten team. We didn’t play like a top-ten team.

“The shine’s off. Obviously the rating doesn’t matter tonight. We were overrated with the way we played.”

The schedule only gets tougher for North Carolina in the coming weeks. The next four weeks include games against Miami, Notre Dame, Wake Forest, and Pittsburgh.