Mack Brown, North Carolina announce one-year contract extension through 2027 season

North Carolina head football coach Mack Brown isn’t leaving Chapel Hill anytime soon. On Thursday, the school announced that the 71-year-old Coach Brown has received a one-year extension and is now under contract through January 2028. Here was what the team site had to report on the extension:

“The University of North Carolina and Head Football Coach Mack Brown have agreed to a one-year contract extension. The length of the contract remains five years, now through January of 2028.”

Then, here was Brown’s own statement on the new extension:

“I appreciate the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Guskiewicz, Bubba Cunningham and the athletics department for continuing to invest in our football program and assisting us as we continue our rise in the ACC and on the national landscape,” Brown said. “We’ve had a very successful four years across the board and we’re continuing to strive to win all the games, have as much fun as possible, and mentor young men who graduate and are better prepared for life after football. We’ve accomplished a lot and we still have so much room for improvement, so we’re looking forward to attacking this offseason and getting ready to go for the 2023 season.”

More background on Brown

Some more interesting intel on Brown’s Hall of Fame career, via the UNC website. One of the most revered head coaches in the game currently.

“Brown, the nation’s only active Hall of Fame coach, ranks second among active coaches in all-time wins and his 274 career victories rank eighth on the FBS all-time list. The 2005 Paul W. “Bear” Bryant National Coach of the Year and the 2008 Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year, Brown is one of a handful of coaches in college football history to lead two separate programs to Top-Five national finishes. He is also one of just five active head coaches who has won a National Championship.

“In four seasons back at North Carolina, Brown has revitalized a program that had won five games in the two seasons prior to his arrival. In his first season in 2019, the Tar Heels went 7-6, sold out every home game, and won the Military Bowl. They followed that with an 8-4 season in 2020 and a trip to the Orange Bowl, the school’s first major bowl in 70 years.
 
“In year three, Brown led the Tar Heels to their third consecutive bowl game, which hadn’t happened since 2016 and occurred only one other time since his departure in 1997. Carolina snapped a four-game losing streak to Virginia, defeated Miami for the third consecutive season, and defeated a Top-10 opponent at home for the first time since 2004. In addition, UNC saw five of its Tar Heels selected in the 2021 NFL Draft with three of players going in the first three rounds.