New Staff

I'll start off my first post of 2012 by saying that, if my blog template looks kind of weird, I apologize. I don't know what's happen. My blog template was fine yesterday but, today, I saw that it was messed up (at least on my computer). If it's not for you, then disregard this message.

Now, on to what this post is about. UNC head coach, Larry Fedora, will officially unveil his new coaching staff today in Chapel Hill. This comes as basically the names of his entire new staff have been leaked to multiple sources. Fedora will be joined by six coaches from his Southern Miss. team. According to WRALSportsFan.com, defensive line coach Deke Adams, co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach Dan Disch, as well as offensive line coach and run-game coordinator Chris Kapilovic gained NCAA approval to start recruiting on behalf of UNC. Golden Eagles offensive coordinator Blake Anderson, co-defensive coordinator Dave Duggan and tight ends coach Walt Bell have since been added to round out the Southern Miss inclusions on Fedora’s staff.

In addition to the Southern Miss. crew, Fedora will add two big names to his staff: Illinois' Vic Koenning and Mississippi’s Gunter Brewer. Koenning turned down an offer from the Illini to stay under their new head coach and Brewer coached with Fedora at Oklahoma St. Brewer also knows Chapel Hill well as he coached the likes of Sam Aiken, Chesley Borders and Jaworski Pollock while at Carolina from 2000-2004. According to WRAL, the final spot to fill will be the position of running backs coach where multiple sources have reported that the front-runner is former UNC back and NC native Randy Jordan. Jordan has four combined years of Big 12 coaching experience at Nebraska and more recently at Texas A&M.

Tom Myslinski, the strength and conditioning coach, is the lone name being held over. That means long time coach, Ken Browning, will not be returning to the Heels. As you may or may not know, Browning was head coach of the Northern High School football team in Durham before moving to Carolina, where he coached for eighteen seasons under five different coaches. According to the Herald-Sun, Fedora made the decision to basically "clean house" after the program was tainted with NCAA violations. The article goes on to say that Fedora is rewarding his staff at Southern Miss. by giving them positions at UNC.

In a way, I don't blame Larry Fedora for what he did. On the other hand, I feel kind of bad for Ken Browning because he, as far as we know, didn't contribute to Butch Davis' scandal. When I read the article it seemed, to me, that Fedora was almost "punishing" Browning for something that he was more than likely not a part of. The wording made me feel like Fedora thinks every coach on Butch Davis' UNC staff contributed to the scandal in some way.  I may be over thinking this but, if that's what he believes, it may take me a while to support him and his Carolina team.