Right up until close to the end, Mack Brown proved to be the consummate salesman at North Carolina. Always pitching, always marketing, sometimes even closing. But not enough. Not nearly enough, lately. His latest sales job was perhaps his most difficult of ...

The North Carolina job is open. Mack Brown was fired on Tuesday, a day after saying he intended to return next season. Turns out, the school wanted to go in a new direction. Brown will still coach the finale against NC State.

Will North Carolina athletics director Bubba Cunningham target a sitting head coach, like Tulane’s Jon Sumrall, or a well-regarded coordinator from a major program, like Georgia’s Glenn Schumann?