Fedora On Brewer Gone, Paschall In, Transfer Rules & More

CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina held its seventh practice of spring football Tuesday afternoon at Kenan Stadium, as the team is at the mid-point of its 15 allotted practices.

Fedora was asked a lot of questions about the team and specific players, but he was also asked about two things we will feature here. The rest is in the video:

*One of the things Fedora was asked about Tuesday was former wide receiver coach Gunter Brewer leaving for a job with the Philadelphia. Fedora and Brewer worked together at Oklahoma State, as well, so they’ve spent a good portion of their professional careers together.

“It’s kind of bittersweet,” Fedora said. “You hate to lose a guy that’s a part of your family and been with you for (many) years, but at the same time you’re excited for him and it’s something that was a goal of his to do. You’re excited for him and you wish him well and you move on and he moves on.”

Was it a tough decision for Brewer to make?

“I would think so,” Fedora said. “He loved Carolina, he’d been here 12 years. That was a tough thing for him, but it was something that was too hard for him to pass up at this time in his life.”

In Brewer’s place is Luke Paschall, who previously spent two years under Fedora as an offensive GA and then the last four years coaching receivers at Arkansas State. In seeing how things eventually played how, this was a logical hire for Fedora.

“I’ve been around Luke for a long time,” Fedora said. “He GA’d under Coach Brewer at Oklahoma State, he’s done a great job. He was here as a GA, so I felt very comfortable moving him into that position. He knows all the terminology, he knows everything that the receivers have been taught, he knows the offense inside-out and backwards.

“It was by far the smoothest transition, he was so accustomed to everything that we do. And on top of that, giving him the special teams.”

*There’s a lot of talk about how the NCAA may grant athletes the right to transfer without penalty, though there isn’t a time table for a decision to be made on it. So what does Fedora think about this and the transfer rule in general?

“There would have to be a lot of Circumstances around it,” Fedora said. “We would have to think about how that would affect everything that goes on. It’s easy to say just let someone transfer and let them play immediately, but you have to think about what that’s going to do with a team, if you have multiple people doing that how you can have a team and know what your scholarship numbers are.

“There’s a lot of different circumstances would have to be talked through. There would have to be some type of stipulation on it, you couldn’t just have everybody who wants to go go any time…

“We have to be very careful with what we do and we really have to think it through.”