And that happened…

Posted by Brandon Rink on July 27, 2011 under ACC Football | Comments are off for this article

These are the last words I heard from Butch Davis as coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels (from my shaky flipcam video shooting skills)…

And now, he’s gone.

What. A. Mess.

So many things come to mind about this situation.

Obviously, it’s a poorly-timed fiasco. One of my immediate thoughts was Davis knew the new board of trustees at UNC wasn’t on his side – so he did his best pitch at the ACC Football Kickoff. On the whole, he was honest about the transgressions of the past year and relaxed in Pinehurst Monday.

And obviously, it didn’t work.

I won’t be the first to say this…and won’t be the last, but if you’re going to fire him, do it when all this is going on last season. Or much, much earlier in the offseason. Or by the end of this season if the NCAA brings the hammer down with penalties.

But not now, not this close to the season – it’s just terrible for the players, especially the seniors and new signees. Just not smooth at all. No matter how you look at it, the UNC administration comes off looking terrible in this ordeal.