North Carolina head coach Mack Brown, fired this week by athletic director Bubba Cunningham, will perhaps be on the Kenan Stadium sideline for the last time, facing rival N.C. State.

Brown as recently as Monday said he planned to return next season, but Bubba Cunningham, the UNC athletic director, informed Brown later Monday that “he will not return as head coach.”

Will North Carolina athletics director Bubba Cunningham target a sitting head coach, like Tulane’s Jon Sumrall, or a well-regarded coordinator from a major program, like Georgia’s Glenn Schumann?