Butch Davis has done something no other Tar Heels coach has ever done: he has embarrassed the University of North Carolina.

The scandals involving contacts between agents and UNC football players, and the still unresolved academic problems with players are serious issues.

It looks like the University, actually THE University when it comes to taking the concept of the student athlete seriously, has sold it soul for 8 win seasons.

As it should be with all things Carolina, the question is what would Dean do? I respectfully say, when a coach tarnishes the reputation and standing of the University of North Carolina, Dean would ask that coach to step down.

And that what this blog requests of Chancellor Holden Thorp.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

Davis to release phone records

Presumably as part of the NCAA investigation of the Carolina football program, coach Butch Davis will release phone records for his cell phone to the news media.  The University did the same thing last year for calls from the football team offices when the NCAA first started to investigate Davis' stewardship of the football program. But there apparently were very few calls, so few that reporters questioned if the records were accurate.  So to augment those phone records Davis' CELL phone records will be made available to the press.

I don't think any UNC coach or program - or professor for that matter - has ever had to turn over phone records.  To this alumnus, turning over phone records is another embarrassment for the University. 

The worst may still be on the horizon.  Carolina has to respond to the NCAA investigation - as if it were a tawdry school like USC, Ohio State, Kentucky, etc. - by September, and is to appear before the NCAA infractions committee a month later.

When's the last time that happened?  In the early 60s and Frank Maguire?  But Carolina going before the NCAA infractions committee?  Carolina!?  Thanks Butch. 

Chancellor Thorp - It's time to Fire Butch Davis!

No comments:

Post a Comment