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The committee was impressed with Brown and Dodds offered him the job on the spot. He agreed to meet with the hiring committee, which included Dodds, Texas coaching legend Darrell Royal, several former Texas players, and several important boosters, most notably Tom Hicks (owner of the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers), who donated time, energy and the use of his private jet corps to the coaching search that also included an exploratory meeting with Northwestern's Gary Barnett in Chicago.īrown met the committee on December 3 in the Four Seasons hotel in Atlanta. On December 2, 1997, Brown was contacted while at the ACC's football banquet in Atlanta. They were also all but assured of their highest final ranking in the AP Poll in half a century. They were slated to appear in the Gator Bowl for the second year in a row-only their second (or third) New Year's Day bowl game since the Justice era. The 1997 Tar Heels notched a 10–1 record-only the third 10-win regular season in school history. At the time, the Tar Heels had just completed their most successful season in years. While Brown informed his North Carolina team and the media that he had no plans to leave North Carolina for the recently vacated job at the University of Texas, he was soon identified (over the objections of Longhorn Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds) by the Texas search committee as one of only two men they were interested in hiring. 10 Notable statistics and accomplishments.