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"the foundation is built"

Really? I haven't seen our team be consistent enough to have a "foundation" at anything. Our Oline sucks, our whole offense sucks.....our defense can't pass rush and can't force turnovers. We have playmakers but can't run the right plays for them to be effective. What a great "foundation".

11/4/2006 11:38:32 AM

Quote :

"loueasyanna."

Please tell me you are joking

11/4/2006 11:39:18 AM

^^our defense doesnt force turnovers because our offense never puts pressure on the other team to have to score. thats how you force turnovers. we have great running backs. an average oline really good wrs. everybodys young especially willie so we will get better.

all we need is a decent qb and we will put up points and put pressure on teh other team to score which will bring the takeaways up.

[Edited on November 4, 2006 at 11:51 AM. Reason : beck is good so if its beck or an improved evans/burke will will have a good qb next year.]

11/4/2006 11:50:06 AM

i like how you keep talking QB when the OLine needs to step the fuck up

11/4/2006 12:35:50 PM

told you fuckers, Butch Davis or RR

11/4/2006 12:39:51 PM

and all you guys who always say players don't read message boards i wish you were watching the clemson maryland game

the announcers said "proctor is one of the few guys that don't look on the internet at chat boards because he doens't care whats on them"

^^the oline would be much better if we had a better qb. they have provided stellar protection at times vs bc and fsu when the qb was doing really well.

if you can make more guys have to play coverage the oline will do better. if you can establish your run with a passing game the oline will look alot better also.

the qb makes the oline good or bad just like the oline cna make the qb good or bad.

[Edited on November 4, 2006 at 1:07 PM. Reason : oline was awesome when rivers was here.]

11/4/2006 1:04:50 PM

he sighned a 7 year 1.7 million dollar deal. this is total bullshit

11/4/2006 2:43:58 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2648903





The North Carolina head coaching job has been tacitly offered to Butch Davis, several sources in the coaching business have told ESPN.com.

"It is Butch Davis if he wants," one source said via e-mail Friday. North Carolina, he continued, "would like a commitment soon, [in] two to three weeks from Butch."

The Tar Heels fired sixth-year coach John Bunting, effective at the end of the season, on Oct. 22.

Davis has begun assembling a coaching staff from the ranks of NFL and major college programs should he decide to accept the North Carolina coaching job, according to a coach who has spoken to Davis and two agents whose clients are interested in jobs at Chapel Hill.

"Some of the coaches that would be on Butch's staff have been calling [coaches] in the [Atlantic Coast] Conference, asking questions about players, facilities," one source said.

In Chapel Hill on Friday night, North Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour declined to comment on the search through sports information director Steve Kirschner.

Davis has been performing due diligence on the North Carolina job for several days, inquiring about issues from the administrative (how has the salary structure of assistant coaches changed since he left college football in 2000 to coach the Cleveland Browns?) to the qualitative (how much can he win at Chapel Hill?).

Davis coached the Browns for nearly four seasons, going 24-36 before resigning late in the 2004 season. He coached at the University of Miami from 1995-2000, going 51-20 as he rebuilt the Hurricanes into a national power.

Davis had expressed interest in a return to Miami in the past, but sources said on Friday night that the coach dismissed the possibility of a return to the university.

Davis also is near the top of the list of candidates to replace John L. Smith at Michigan State, but a source close to Davis says he considers North Carolina to be the more attractive position.

Larry Coker, an assistant to Davis, replaced him as head coach and led Miami to the 2001 national championship and to a double-overtime loss to Ohio State in the 2002 championship game. However, the Hurricanes' power has slowly ebbed over the past four seasons. They are 5-3 going into their home game Saturday against No. 23 Virginia Tech.

11/4/2006 2:54:55 PM

It's official now.....FIRE CHUCK

11/8/2006 5:00:19 PM

link?

11/8/2006 5:02:46 PM

wonder if the recent developments in south florida have changed the situation a bit....

11/8/2006 5:03:43 PM

It's official as the Packpride basketball stuff last year. I just checked the UNC Scout.com IC board and it looks a lot like the NCSU Rick Barnes shit..

11/8/2006 5:04:35 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/507763.html

Quote :

"* Steppingstone factor. If Davis could go 16-10 or so over his first two seasons, his coaching career would be rehabilitated fully. He easily could parlay Carolina into another shot at the NFL or a lucrative job at a football factory in the SEC, Big 12 or Big Ten."

if it happens, lets hope that is all this ends up being.

11/8/2006 5:13:53 PM

Miami needs to fire Coker NOW and reach out to Butch.. But I've heard he wouldn't go back to Miami because of a coordinator Coker fired earlier this season was a friend of Butch's and he wasn't happy about that..

11/8/2006 5:14:17 PM

http://www.wral.com/sports/10275631/detail.html


Sources: Davis, UNC Close To Deal

POSTED: 4:20 pm EST November 8, 2006
UPDATED: 4:47 pm EST November 8, 2006

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Sources indicate that former NFL coach Butch Davis is expected to soon become North Carolina's new head football coach.

Insiders both in Cleveland at the University of North Carolina told WRAL that negotiations between the Tar Heels and Butch Davis have entered the final stages. There is no word when or if a contract has been signed, but one source indicated that both sides "are at a point where only the I's need dotting and T's crossed."

The Winston-Salem Journal reported Wednesday afternoon that a deal has been signed by Davis to accept the head coaching job at UNC. Athletic officials at the university declined to comment on the negotiations or the status of the coaching search late Wednesday afternoon.

Davis was fired from the Cleveland Browns in 2004 and spent the last two years working for the NFL Network. Prior to his tenure at Cleveland, he was the head coach at Miami, taking over a problem-ridden program and setting the table for Larry Coker and the Canes 2001 national championship.

If a deal is reached, the next step will be a formal announcement by the Tar Heels. With outsted John Bunting still running the team until the end of the season, North Carolina might want to delay the press conference. But it is important that when or if Davis is hired, he will need to get started as soon as possible for recruiting purposes.

11/8/2006 5:22:38 PM

Jaybee1200 = 2
Doubters = 0

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 5:26 PM. Reason : d]

11/8/2006 5:26:05 PM

More pressure for Cowher

11/8/2006 6:02:07 PM

remember when we were close to a deal and in the "final stages" with calipari?

11/8/2006 6:06:33 PM

^Yes, but I guarantee that they won't fuck it up like Fowler did. UNC was smart enough to hire someone to lead the coaching search and had enough sense to realize a lot of colleges would be looking for a coach at the end of this season and got the job done not only early, but right.

They win again.

11/8/2006 6:12:36 PM

MORE LIKE BITCH DAVIS

11/8/2006 6:17:07 PM

not sure if it was posted earlier in the thread but on espn news a few minutes ago and said it was finalized and they had signed davis

this is not good

11/8/2006 6:17:29 PM

and ncsu football just took a back seat

11/8/2006 6:19:00 PM

They fire Doh and get Roy Williams
They fire Bunting and possibly get Butch Davis


We fire Ocain and get an unproven head coach
Herb leaves but on the verge of getting fired and we get an unproven head coach....

11/8/2006 6:21:08 PM

^agreed; i don't think that baddour is a good AD either, but props to him for hiring a coach that was UNDERACHIEVING after 5 years to build the program their way and going out and getting an IMPROVEMENT

maybe another AD could take a note

11/8/2006 6:21:56 PM

Quote :

"Herb leaves but on the verge of getting fired"

he was never on the verge of being fired, ever.

11/8/2006 6:24:50 PM

^

He would've been fired at the end of this season unless he won something.. That's why he took off.

11/8/2006 6:39:29 PM

herb left while his stock was relatively high


can't really blame him

but yeah

NCSU football is fucked

I wish the athletic department would make a commitment to winning

11/8/2006 6:43:32 PM

Quote :

"Heels Hire Butch Davis Inside Carolina received reports from several sources that a contract has been signed with Davis, though a formal announcement had not been scheduled and UNC has not given official confirmation. Sources indicate that a formal announcement could be delayed until after homecoming week, as there are conflicts being worked out regarding the timing of the announcement. The 54-year-old Davis returned the University of Miami to national prominence during his tenure. Taking over a program under heavy NCAA sanctions, Davis posted a 51-20 record with the Hurricanes from 1995-2000. After an 11-1 record and a No. 2 national ranking in his sixth season at Miami, he chose to take the head job with the NFL's Cleveland Browns. Davis resigned during his fourth season in Cleveland, after compiling a 24-35 record. Late Wednesday afternoon, the Winston-Salem Journal made a similar report. "The University of North Carolina has reached an agreement with Butch Davis for him to become its next football coach," wrote the Journal's beat writer, Bill Cole "

nullhttp://northcarolina.scout.com/2/588352.html

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 7:20 PM. Reason : web address]

11/8/2006 7:19:47 PM

Balls.

11/8/2006 7:21:51 PM

even though i won't completely believe anything that comes out of Inside Carolina,

Quote :

"Balls."

11/8/2006 7:51:53 PM

we should make him an offer of "whatever unc-ch is paying plus 30 percent" or something JUST to stir things up.

11/8/2006 7:56:40 PM

^^ believe it

11/8/2006 8:03:33 PM

^ stick it.

11/8/2006 8:04:22 PM

i talked to some sources

11/8/2006 8:05:14 PM

basically im tired of our athletic department hiring shitty ass coaches for both sports then acting like we are good, when in reality we are the laughing stock of the acc (excluding duke football)

11/8/2006 8:05:27 PM

^i don't know about the laughing stock . . . but certainly not the cream of the crop

11/8/2006 9:24:52 PM

Miami

11/8/2006 9:26:11 PM

its official

11/8/2006 10:30:50 PM

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"UPDATEx3: The Charlotte Observer got Davis’ agent to go on record, and claims the reports are inaccurate. The agent, Marvin Demoff, said that nothing has been finalized and it will be next week before anything is “really going to happen.” My take is that it adds fuel to the “Homecoming Theory”."

11/8/2006 10:33:18 PM

ESPN 2

11/8/2006 10:35:01 PM

it is scrolling on ESPN bottomline

11/8/2006 11:06:27 PM

OH snap, its official!?

11/8/2006 11:11:20 PM

^^yeah saying reports out of so and so, they arent confirming anything

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 11:14 PM. Reason : arrows]

11/8/2006 11:11:20 PM

of course the butch would want to coach at a gay school

11/8/2006 11:11:42 PM

its official



and thats baaaad news for the rest of the acc in about 3 years

11/8/2006 11:16:19 PM

plus little just committed

11/8/2006 11:21:07 PM

hopefully we lose all of our games, especially the UNC one, and we kick chuck to the curb (aka, the dline coaching position or AD position)

11/8/2006 11:24:44 PM

^^ yeah, to ND.

11/8/2006 11:25:21 PM

WRAL was reporting that the contract is for upwards of 2 mil a year. Most likely we can't afford a coach like butch

we need to update CA, CA v 2.0

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 11:29 PM. Reason : zxvc]

11/8/2006 11:29:00 PM

^^he just said he hasnt had a chance to talk to butch davis but "that day is coming."

11/8/2006 11:30:35 PM