If you were Butch Davis, would you take the North Carolina job? Yes or no...
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BuckTwenty;642860; said:
I don't know either. But his name has been thrown around more for the UNC job in the past week than any other job in the past year.
I personally wouldn't touch UNC with a 10 foot pole. They need quite a rebuilding job but they will always been 2nd banana at that school. That just doesn't strike me as a spot I'd want to get into.
Maybe he's different, I don't know.
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TRON
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Butch Davis has agreed to a deal that will make him the new head football coach at North Carolina, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer.
[SIZE=-2]Davis[/SIZE]The Observer cites six sources connected to the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference, saying that an official announcement is expected as early as Monday.
Current Tar Heels coach John Bunting, who has led the team to a 1-9 season, was fired Oct. 23 but will finish out the season.
Davis is the former coach of both the Miami Hurricanes and the NFL's Cleveland Browns.
Steve Kirschner, UNC's associate athletics director for communications, told the paper Sunday, "There is no news to announce on the coaching search today."
Various media reports last week indicated that Davis and the Tar Heels had completed contract talks, but a North Carolina source speaking on the condition of anonymity told ESPN.com that negotiations between Davis' agent and the university were still ongoing.
A deal "hadn't yet been finalized, but it seems we're headed in that direction," the source told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach.
Davis won a national championship as an assistant under Jimmy Johnson in Miami in the 1987 season, then two Super Bowl rings as an assistant for the Dallas Cowboys.
He was 51-20 as Miami head coach from 1995-2000 after taking over a Hurricanes program that mired in NCAA sanctions.
Davis was 24-36 in Cleveland, with only one trip to the playoffs, and resigned during the 2004 season. He has been an analyst for the NFL Network for the past two years.
North Carolina Athletics director Dick Baddour did not return a phone message left by the Observer Sunday. David was also unreachable.
[SIZE=-2]Davis[/SIZE]The Observer cites six sources connected to the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference, saying that an official announcement is expected as early as Monday.
Current Tar Heels coach John Bunting, who has led the team to a 1-9 season, was fired Oct. 23 but will finish out the season.
Davis is the former coach of both the Miami Hurricanes and the NFL's Cleveland Browns.
Steve Kirschner, UNC's associate athletics director for communications, told the paper Sunday, "There is no news to announce on the coaching search today."
Various media reports last week indicated that Davis and the Tar Heels had completed contract talks, but a North Carolina source speaking on the condition of anonymity told ESPN.com that negotiations between Davis' agent and the university were still ongoing.
A deal "hadn't yet been finalized, but it seems we're headed in that direction," the source told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach.
Davis won a national championship as an assistant under Jimmy Johnson in Miami in the 1987 season, then two Super Bowl rings as an assistant for the Dallas Cowboys.
He was 51-20 as Miami head coach from 1995-2000 after taking over a Hurricanes program that mired in NCAA sanctions.
Davis was 24-36 in Cleveland, with only one trip to the playoffs, and resigned during the 2004 season. He has been an analyst for the NFL Network for the past two years.
North Carolina Athletics director Dick Baddour did not return a phone message left by the Observer Sunday. David was also unreachable.
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exhawg
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I think it's a good move. UNC will give him some time to build the program, and he showed at Miami that he can do that. He should be able to use his Miami success to pull recruits to UNC. He might even be able to hire Coker and the rest of his Miami staff after the season. :p
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ABJ
Butch Davis undergoing chemotherapy
AARON BEARD
Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth.
"I know people are going to be concerned and everything, but it's going to be OK," Davis said Tuesday. "We're going to get through this and we're going to have a great season next fall."
The 55-year-old coach said he wasn't even aware he had a growth when he saw his dentist late last month in Cleveland for a routine cleaning. After the growth was removed, a biopsy diagnosed it as non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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Butch Davis undergoing chemotherapy
AARON BEARD
Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth.
"I know people are going to be concerned and everything, but it's going to be OK," Davis said Tuesday. "We're going to get through this and we're going to have a great season next fall."
The 55-year-old coach said he wasn't even aware he had a growth when he saw his dentist late last month in Cleveland for a routine cleaning. After the growth was removed, a biopsy diagnosed it as non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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Muck;2223061; said:
Actually, didn't Butchie get a lot of the credit for cleaning up da U after they were rocked by the Pell Grant scandel in the '90s?
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Buckeye513
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It's difficult to find time to defraud the government when you're freebasing cocaine and driving yo hoe to the abortion clinic.NFBuck;2223065; said:
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