Mack Brown wanted to make it clear after his final game as North Carolina's coach: he's not mad at the decision, though he didn't like how everything was handled. Brown closed his second tenure with the Tar Heels — and quite possibly a coaching career that carried him to a national championship at Texas and a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame — with Saturday's 35-30 home loss to rival N.

Following Mack Brown's final game as the UNC football coach, Brown discussed his firing and the Tar Heels' future.

UNC sought to send Mack Brown out a winner Saturday against N.C. State. Instead, the Tar Heels suffered the kind of loss that epitomized his second tenure.