Fedora to North Carolina Imminent
ESPN and other media outlets are reporting that Larry Fedora will leave Southern Mississippi to become the next head football coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels. Fedora was 33-19 in four seasons at Southern Miss, including four straight bowl appearances. The Golden Eagles will face Nevada in the 2011 Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl on December 24th.
For North Carolina, this ends several months of speculation since the firing of Butch Davis. Although North Carolina had some very good years under Mack Brown in the 1990’s, they have not had a 10-win season since that decade. Davis was unable to fix that and, worse yet, saw various NCAA infractions allegedly occur on his watch.
Still, Fedora enters a situation where the cupboard is far from bare. The Tar Heels have been to four straight bowl games. The ACC is good enough to merit two BCS bowl participants, but not so good to prevent a team like North Carolina from rising to the top. Time will tell, but this certainly seems like a win-win hire for all parties.
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