There are few buzzwords more common in college athletics nowadays than alignment. It is what every program desires, but few manage to achieve.
At North Carolina, alignment is in short supply. The athletic director is being replaced by a college athletics outsider in a few months. The board chairman, who pushed to hire football coach Bill Belichick, to rather disastrous results last season, resigned last month. Two highly paid general managers have receded to the background. Discussions regarding renovating basketball’s Dean Smith Center on campus or moving to a new building further away from students have split campus opinion and led to protests.
