North Carolina
Mack Brown: 'We're disappointed any time one of our guys is involved in something against the law'
UNC football coach Mack Brown talks about players that face charges after their involvement in a fatal crash in January.
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UNC football coach Mack Brown talks about players that face charges after their involvement in a fatal crash in January.
Uh we had three guys that, that got misdemeanors. Uh that is going through the legal process right now. It's the first time something's come up like that. Uh We can investigate it. We, we've always done that. Uh We, we stayed out of it. Uh It's not our place. Uh We'll let the legal process take its course and, and then what we will do is is obviously we'll uh they'll have consequences with a disciplinary action within our program. Uh But they will be involved in spring practice and we're disappointed any time any of our guys uh get mentioned in, in something that, that is uh uh against the law with a misdemeanor. Uh But we've had the best record in the country of anybody and I'm, I'm really, really proud of those guys and, and uh disappointed in, in the three that are, are being questioned, but uh that'll work itself out. Yeah, you, you have to be very careful because in my 36 years as a head coach, I learned that um I'm not supposed to be the investigator because then it can be tampering and, and legal issues are very serious. So I never get into details with the kids. I get into nothing ever happens. Good after midnight. You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that. You shouldn't do this. And I don't ask them what you did. That's for the, the investigators, investigators to ask. Um, and, and then you move forward and I try to treat them as in all cases like I would treat my sons and we, we do have, uh uh we have to be careful that in, in modern day media, especially with Twitter that we can move too fast and we can try a case before people are guilty. And I think that's awful and I, I appreciate the way most of you have handled it uh because we're all waiting to see and if, if they, they didn't do anything wrong, then that's why we have a legal system to determine that not me and not you really? So, so that, that's, um that, that's, I had a young son that got in some trouble. So, I mean, I've been, I've been through this as a father and he's wonderful now and he's a great father and he, he doesn't even drink but, but there was a night or two there where there were some hard discussions. Um So I, I think we've got to remember these are all human beings and we, we got to make sure there are a lot of rumors out there and a lot of things that um probably aren't true that people are saying that's very unfortunate. So I wish everybody treat these guys like they, they would want their sons treated just to clarify on that real quick. Mac, you said you guys said they would be involved, the three guys would be involved in spring practice, practice practice. Yes. Yes. And it's really important. It's really important. There's a tremendous amount of stress on them too. Um, so you, you, you try to, um, again, there will be some discipline from, from us. Uh, there may be more dependent on the outcomes. Uh, but, um, the, the legal process will take its course and then we'll be told what they find after that. And other than that, we pretty much stay out of it and, and hopefully, uh, anytime there's something that comes up like this, the, the most important thing is they learn from it, that's the most important thing. All right, we're good, thanks. All right, good. See you guys in the morning.