Mack Brown really likes the additions to North Carolina's coaching staff
Mack Brown is entering his fifth season at the helm since his return to North Carolina, and he’s brought some new artillery with him for year five. Brown added numerous coaches to his staff with a substantial amount of experience at the professional and collegiate level this offseason, which now has the Tar Heels coaching staff clicking at an unprecedented level.
“Really like this staff, this staff’s getting along better, better camaraderie than any staff since we’ve been here,” Brown admitted.
The Tar Heels’ coaching staff looks fairly familiar on paper, but the addition of some veteran coaches in various analyst roles has taken their staff to a new level already according to Brown.
“And you take the Ted Monachino‘s and the Clyde Christensen‘s and they’ve had a tremendous impact off the field,” Brown said. “They can talk to our coaches and they can evaluate the practice video and tell them what they see, good or concerns. You take two guys that have won Super Bowls, that’s pretty powerful.”
Monachino joined the staff this offseason as a senior defensive analyst, while Christensen serves as a volunteer offensive analyst for the team. Between the collegiate and professional coaching ranks, the two have combined for over 60 years of coaching experience and have also been a part of a combined three Super Bowl champion teams.
“And the same with Freddie Kitchens, he’s been a tremendous addition to our staff,” Brown said. “Jason Jones has worked with Charlton Warren before at Indiana, so they’re on the same page.”
Kitchens joined the staff as the team’s run game coordinator and tight ends coach this offseason as well, also bringing plenty of NFL and college coaching experience with him to the table, including a season as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns in 2019.
Jones also joined the team as a position coach, taking over for Dre Bly as North Carolina’s cornerbacks coach. He’s been coaching specifically in the secondary for 20 seasons, also presenting six seasons of co-defensive coordinator experience during his time at Ole Miss.
North Carolina’s coaching staff was already strong, but seems to be even stronger and wiser heading into 2023. And with Brown’s 34 years of head coaching experience himself, they likely boast one of the most veteran coaching staffs in the entire nation.
“So the staff continuity has been really really good and now we’ve got to take all the knowledge and we’ve got to transfer it to the field, and that’s very very important moving forward,” Brown concluded.