Mack Brown won the game on Saturday night, but he may have lost the vibe check just as quickly.
Brown’s North Carolina side came out on top in their season opener against Shane Beamer’s South Carolina by a final score of 31-17. But as Brown and Beamer met up to exchange pleasantries after the final whistle, things got a little bit awkward. After a brief chat with Brown, Beamer turned away to leave. But Brown still had something to say to Beamer and proceeded to hold Beamer by his throat area to pull him back in.
Here is the video.
https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1698183862931653022
Brown probably didn’t intend to grab Beamer’s throat and likely just reacted out of instinct in a loud and hectic environment where he might not have otherwise been able to get Beamer’s attention again. It didn’t seem like Beamer took any sort of offense to it either.
But that did not stop some very uncomfortable screenshots of the interaction between the two coaches from going viral as a meme.
https://twitter.com/SickosCommittee/status/1698171998659056055
https://twitter.com/BarstoolBigCat/status/1698176091230277687
https://twitter.com/HuskersMN/status/1698169472383676827
https://twitter.com/MikeTaddow/status/1698187053626704121
Vader Force chokes aside, Saturday’s win was the 100th of Brown’s UNC career. It also made him the first coach in FBS history to win 100 games at two different schools (Brown won 158 games in his 16 years as head coach at Texas). But Brown clearly has some work to do when it comes to those darn postgame handshakes.
