Butch Davis Fired (Confirmed!!!) Did 216 phone calls nail the coffin shut?

 

NBC report on the rumors.

LRM asks: Uh…considering the timing of this (if true), then what on earth changed? To think, if this had been done last summer, the whole thing would’ve largely been forgotton (especially with the issues at Ohio State, Auburn and now Oregon). But now there will undoubtedly be penalties of some sort, and I have to think firing the Chief right now must be part of some attempt by the Flagship for the NCAA to accept lesser, self-imposed penalties.

SFN asks: The timing of this alongside of the scrambling of Butch’s ‘secret phone’ seems very ‘coincidental’. I can’t help but wonder aloud if the information from his 216 phone was very damning in the end? We will see. For more conversation, you can click to this thread in our message forum.

GAWolf asks: Given that the timing is so curious (read: could not be worse for the Heels), could it be that Butch misled the powers that be in Chapel Hill regarding his personal phone “last fall” when Greg Barnes alleges the phone records were reviewed (snicker) by UNC. One can’t help but think that it would be an easy pitch unless someone started putting random phone numbers with names. It’s interesting that on the eve of the release and after Butch allegedly put time into “redacting” these records the school pulls the cord on Butch before the phone records are released.

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101 Responses to Butch Davis Fired (Confirmed!!!) Did 216 phone calls nail the coffin shut?

  1. Marvin 07/27/2011 at 8:42 PM #

    Yeah, definitely go to IC. They’ve got their tin foil hats on, and they’re giving it to everybody, while talking up URBAN MEYER as Butch’s replacement.

  2. runwiththepack 07/27/2011 at 8:46 PM #

    Is Swofford a pyschic???
    “Let’s investigate EVERYBODY now”.
    Yeah, Swaff, you’ll be alright.

  3. GoldenChain 07/27/2011 at 8:49 PM #

    Could have been the phone calls but I think this came from the BOGs and the last straw was the McAdoo paper being shown to be totally bogus by NCSU MESSAGE BOARDS!!!!!
    The professor didn’t catch the plagiarism and neither did student review board, renecks and hicks found it!
    Has to be a HUGE embarrasment for the BOGs.

  4. wufpup76 07/27/2011 at 9:04 PM #

    You mean they fired the Chief after four consecutive PRESEASON mythical ACC and National Championships???

    DAYUM.

    Can’t wait for Smokey to gloss over all this as a non-topic (actually I won’t be listening, but I’m quite sure that’s what will happen).

    Holes have FINALLY entered full ‘CYA’ mode … Can’t let the internet gestapo track down any more dirt on the basketball program.

    Internet Gestapo. I rather like that for State internets people.

    Internet Gestapo forever <3 Marv.

  5. newt 07/27/2011 at 9:04 PM #

    Sad that Butch will never know he was fired.

  6. McCallum 07/27/2011 at 9:08 PM #

    FYI: the guy in the picture is named Ricky Davis. He owns a plumbing and taxidermy shop near Rhonda. He is currently contemplating a jump off a bridge near North Wilkes High School just before you get to Roaring Gap.

    The program will battle along for a year or so until the talent level drops off and then unc will rock bottom.

    Expect ramifications to stretch into that beloved basketball program as well.

    If you always wondered how unc could admit the likes of Kevin Madden, Rasheed Wallace and Dwight Jones while keeping them eligible to play this wonderful cluster funk has just laid it all out for you.

    Thank you Butch. The boys at carolinasucks will be sending you a dozen roses, State red BTW, for doing what we always hoped and dreamed could be done.

    You’ve both exposed and wrecked the myth of the “carolina way”.

    McCallum

  7. lupus occidit arietem 07/27/2011 at 9:09 PM #

    At Skippyjon- that is the funniest post I have seen here in, well, ever.

    Love to see them suffering.

    If it was Duke or Wake I would have some empathy. But I want to grind salt into these wounds.

  8. blpack 07/27/2011 at 9:14 PM #

    Out of the frying pan and into the fire. I think we are about to see more fireworks.

  9. highstick 07/27/2011 at 9:14 PM #

    Speaking of Dwight Jones…can he now stay academically eligible to finish out the season?

  10. runwiththepack 07/27/2011 at 9:16 PM #

    GoldenChain Says:

    Could have been the phone calls but I think this came from the BOGs and the last straw was the McAdoo paper being shown to be totally bogus by NCSU MESSAGE BOARDS!!!!!

    Yeah, G-chain!

    Larry, the cable guy vs. John Edwards.

  11. choppack1 07/27/2011 at 9:29 PM #

    It was a shocker today. I was hoping they’d keep him longer a lot of dots were starting to b connected

  12. eas 07/27/2011 at 9:31 PM #

    I think skippyjon meant “whaling in de backyards popin bottels as they arrove again a tree”

    As for the “support BMFD” shirt…..that picture will NEVER get old. Still funny to this day.

  13. tuckerdorm1983 07/27/2011 at 9:37 PM #

    honestly I thought last august he was gone. I was sure at the end of last season he would quietly walk away. No the dumb ass stayed. That was his mistake. The arrogance of it all astonishes me. They thought they could side step aside the freight train called the NCAA headed to Chapel Hill. No one got real about this. Of course Butch is the one who has to be accountable for what goes on. He can’t dump this crap on Blake or the tutor.

    Baddour and Thorpe have to at some time realize that the Bell that tolls, tolls for Thee. Butch already figured it out with a little help from the Board of Trustees (you know what bell I am talking about, the bell in the bell tower across from Wilson library and next to Kenan Stadium)

  14. 61Packer 07/27/2011 at 9:41 PM #

    I just went to the Rams Club website and watched a video where Butch Davis appeared and said “I’m Butch Davis, and I’m a Tar Heel!” I watched it twice because I enjoyed it so much the first time.

    SURELY all this noise that BMFD is no longer the UNC football coach is simply another vicious slam by the NCSU lunatic fringe at work again, spreading more lies about UNC!

    Is it 11am Thursday yet?

  15. Lock 07/27/2011 at 9:48 PM #

    Timing’s pretty obvious after you read the Backing the Pack article.

  16. packalum44 07/27/2011 at 9:48 PM #

    Timing is everything. Smells like something exciting is forthcoming.

  17. tuckerdorm1983 07/27/2011 at 9:48 PM #

    I Butch MF Davis and I am no longer a tarhell.

  18. 61Packer 07/27/2011 at 9:53 PM #

    Just heard on Channel 50 that Davis has just released a statement:

    “I did not have sex with that woman!!!!!!!”

  19. runwiththepack 07/27/2011 at 9:59 PM #

    More from Inside Carolina, to wit:

    “Let’s take the high road here. Whoever from the staff is named as interim hc should get our support. Hopefully with our talent we’ll have a winning season, go to a bowl, keep the recruits we have, show we have integrity, and get another homerun coach who could lead us to the promised land in 2012. Keep your heads up. We have a great university. We’ll get over this. This has put our pursuit of a Top 10 program back a couple of years, but BD did have us headed in the right direction. You know there is some up and coming Mack Brown type of coach out there that is chomping at the bit to take over a program like UNC.”

    I’m so glad that this poster managed to inject that “show we have integrity” (still, somehow) in there.

    “Somehow”, with a little help from my friends (in the local media).

  20. GAWolf 07/27/2011 at 10:23 PM #

    I really haven’t stopped laughing for about 5 hours now. First email about this sent to me about 3pm. I didn’t believe it and carried on with daily duties. once I realized this was legit at about 6 pm it’s been a chucklefest since.

  21. GAWolf 07/27/2011 at 10:25 PM #

    Lee Folwer just wedged:”butch fired…I wonder if he’ll sioux?”

  22. runwiththepack 07/27/2011 at 10:28 PM #

    Yet more from Inside Carolina:

    Heel1963: “What are they thinking. This is so stupid on so many levels. They had better have a really BIG NAME LINED UP

    The wuffies are laughing their asses off at us and I don’t blame them”

    VetPride:

    “Spoke with a BOT member and there is more to the story”.

    BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!:

    This may be my favorite:

    ” Mistascott
    All-American
    2460 posts this site

    Re: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM UNC
    Well the way the letter is worded makes it sound like they just got fed up with all the negative attention. If that is the case, what a boneheaded decision on timing. Even doing it three months ago would have given a new coach time to get established. Now, we have to hire an interim coach for the season and wait until next offseason to hire a coach, which means we are going to lose a recruiting class.”

    In other words, “How will this affect recruiting?”.

    You can’t make this stuff up. hahahahahahhaha! (huff and puff). hahahahhahahahahahhaha!

  23. runwiththepack 07/27/2011 at 10:32 PM #

    But… after this is all over, and we all have to go back to our jobs and reality,

    I’ll go back to work for one of the most successful people in the history of NC… my boss,, NCSU class of…

    Well, i can’t say bec. i want to maintain my anonymity.

  24. packhammer 07/27/2011 at 10:34 PM #

    There will be no fight. Read Thorp statement and Davis statements together. They have agreed to pay out Butch Davis. Everybody walks away and says nice things. This will be interesting.

  25. wolfpack95 07/27/2011 at 11:25 PM #

    I hear that John Bunting is available.

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