In his 50 years in the profession, Mack Brown has never coached in a professional football league.
But he now believes he may not have to leave the college ranks to get there.
“We’re the NFL. We’re the mini-NFL,” says the 71-year-old Brown, the oldest active FBS head coach who enters his fifth season of his second stint at North Carolina. “It’s just like the NFL. That’s where we are headed. We will never see amateurism again. It’s gone. I hate it. I thought that’s who we are, what college football is.
