Mack Brown: Coaches and players have too many distractions, and that's why there's inconsistent play from teams on the weekend

Some would call college football signature wins from this season like like Vanderbilt over Alabama a monumental upset. Others simple call it parity.

Regardless of what you call it, there's been a heavy dose of it this year and the many would argue that the gap between the haves and the have-nots isn't as wide as it once was. 

When NIL came into the picture, many coaches and fans thought that the amatuer college game they love would quickly turn into something that more resembles the NFL.

According to some recent comments from Mack Brown, that's not what has happened. College football today is more similar to another professional sports league altogether - Major League Baseball.

"I used to think we were the NFL because there is no more amateurism, but we're really not. We are really more pro baseball, because whoever has the most money can buy the best players. That has to be taken care of," Brown shared when asked about the biggest causes of parity we've seen in college football this season.

Brown also points to the transfer portal, because he believes you never really know who you are playing against.

"The preseason rankings are out the door because we don't even know who we're playing against, so the media sure doesn't know who is going to pop up, especially if you get the right quarterback and he stays healthy because this is a quarterback driven game more than ever before."

Lastly, Brown points to the new-age of distractions and mentions both social media and players having agents.

"There are more distractions for these coaches and players than ever before. Social media's abuzz, they want someone fired after every game, but there's usually too big of a buyout to fire them so they just want to be miserable."

"Secondly, the players have agents. Agents are talking to them about transferring every week. There are third parties involved more now than ever before. There are distractions for parents. You've got NIL distractions and players talking about 'I'm not making enough money. What are you going to pay me to stay? I'll threaten to leave if you don't give me more money.'"

"Then you've got social media where people are talking about player being better than they probably are on certain weekends, and then go from that to they should be cut off the team because they're awful the next weekend."

"These young people have so many distractions, and I think that's why we're seeing so much inconsistency in the play on the weekends." 

Mack has seen inconsistency firsthand from his squad in Chapel Hill.

The Tar Heels opened the season 3-0 with wins over Minnesota, Charlotte and FCS NC Central before a 50-70 loss to James Madison sparked a four game losing skid.

With dominant wins against Virginia (41-14) and Florida State (35-11), the Tar Heels got back in the win column the last two weekends and sit at 5-4 with games against Wake Forest, Boston College and NC State remaining.

Hear Mack's full comments in the clip.