So can we revisit the Butch Davis hissy fit yet? (merged)

[hatvol96]

Bump.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

And bump again.

 

[notverycrucial]

Butch Davis has done wonders for a UNC football program which had been on life support the previous last ten years.

However, since he's arrived, Davis is 0-6 against UNC's biggest football rivals, UVa and NCSt. If you can't beat your biggest football rivals even once in three years, that is simply unacceptable to most fans.

IF Davis is unable to deliver wins against UVa and/or NCSt next year, his job will no longer be secure.

 

[#10_Ainge_#10]

Butch Davis has done wonders for a UNC football program which had been on life support the previous last ten years.

However, since he's arrived, Davis is 0-6 against UNC's biggest football rivals, UVa and NCSt. If you can't beat your biggest football rivals even once in three years, that is simply unacceptable to most fans.

IF Davis is unable to deliver wins against UVa and/or NCSt next year, his job will no longer be secure.

0-6 against those two schools is pathetic....I'm glad we passed on him

 

[grimvol]

All offseason, a bunch of posters on this site complained about the Kiffin hire because it was "too risky," that Hamilton should have done more to bring a "proven winner" to Knoxville. When pressed for exactly which proven winner we should have hired, the answer was almost always "Butch Davis." We should have done whatever it took to get Butch Davis. When told that the disagreement was not over money, the answer was always, "Well, we should have just given him more money then. Butch Davis Butch Davis Butch Davis Butch Davis Butch Davis Butch Davis."

Well, gentlemen, this "proven winner" is now in Year 3 of his tenure, and he's 0-3 in a terrible conference. He just got beat at home by an awful FSU team. Half his wins this season have been against I-AA teams.

Why exactly am I supposed to feel disappointed that we didn't get this guy? The ACC is awful. If you can't get it done in Year 3 in the ACC, you can't get it done anymore.

Kudos to Mike Hamilton for not moving heaven and earth to get this guy. He's a has-been.


(Mods, feel free to move this to the NCAA forum if you feel it's more appropriate. I put it on the main board first because I'm hopeful of soliciting comment from some of our more ardent Davis enthusiasts.)

I NEVER wanted Butch,....I was pushing for Chris Petersen.

 

[tvolsfan]

I'm glad it wasn't your call...