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A funny thing happened a few weeks ago when North Carolina made the decision to part ways with four-star rhetorician Larry Fedora: They didn’t call the guy they probably should have called. Instead of reaching out to the best young coach in their own state, Appalachian State’s Scott Satterfield — who led the Mountaineers to 40 wins over the past four seasons as they transitioned from the FCS to FBS — the Tarheels made perhaps the most astounding hire of the offseason to date (if not in the recent history of college football), plucking an anodyne 67-year-old television analyst from the ranks of retirement to become their de-facto CEO. It is not impossible to imagine that Mack Brown will succeed at UNC in the short term. But it highlights a strange divide of this busy college football hiring season, particularly for mid-tier FBS schools like UNC: Either you target someone with upward mobility who can energize a program with new ideas, or you hire someone based largely on nostalgia and hope the momentum carries
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