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Music City Bowl Sweet Redemption for Scarred Tar Heels

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- This was the season that could have been for North Carolina's football team, the year the Tar Heels and their fans thought they might finally bask in the limelight of national recognition. Instead, there was only the glaring light of dual NCAA investigations on a program suddenly on the verge of...

Starting 11: Auburn Seeks Seventh SEC National Title of BCS Era

Come Jan. 10, Auburn will take the field with a 6-0 SEC record in the BCS title game at its back, seeking to become the fifth different SEC school to win a BCS title. To put that into perspective, the rest of the conferences in the country have combined to crown six different champions. Toss in two titles from LSU and two...

Butch Davis Bans University of North Carolina Football Team from Twitter

Under intense NCAA investigation regarding players allegedly receiving improper benefits from agents, the North Carolina football program established a Twitter ban for player accounts. Head coach Butch Davis told his players of the decision at practice on Thursday. Quarterback T.J. Yates responded to the new rule by...

ACC Report: Sunshine State Smackdown Headlines Weekend

One of the assumptions inherent in the ACC's expansion to 12 teams in the middle of the last decade was Florida State and Miami would emerge as Sunshine State anchors whose annual meetings would go a long way to determining the conference champion. It might finally be happening. No. 13 Miami (3-1, 1-0 ACC) plays host to...

Butch Davis Has No Plans to Resign as North Carolina Head Coach

Despite the firestorm that surrounds North Carolina's football program, Butch Davis has no plans to resign as head coach. He also said he was unaware of former associate head coach John Blake's financial ties to sports agent Gary Wichard. Davis made both emphatically clear Thursday, telling the media that he plans "to be...

Butch Davis News From the Web

05/09/12 You know it's the off season when...; I even notice... Source: 2 the Lion PSU Football Blog Butch Davis hasn't been unc's coach for what 2-3 years now? and to lump PSU in just for the sake of "scandal" is just lazy writing (because this isn't journalism) - because, while some will argue that the mess at PSU is because of football, everything that he is saying is wrong about college football isn't happening at PSU (yet).
05/05/12 School Block Source: Emporia Gazette - Emporia KS This is the first of a two-part series on the history of the block designated at Emporia's founding for schools.
04/13/12 Bobby Petrino: Power Ranking Best Candidates to... Source: Bleacher Report Arkansas' upcoming season is full of potential, but the firing of Bobby Petrino has left the program with a lot of uncertainty heading into the fall.
04/11/12 Brass Tacks: Petrino Will Find New Job, Arkansas Needs... Source: Forbes The University of Arkansas chose ethics over economics with its decision to fire head football coach Bobby Petrino.
04/11/12 Why on Earth Would Arkansas Consider Butch Davis, the... Source: The Big Lead There seem to be a lot of Butch Davis fans loitering on the internet.

Background on Butch Davis

Paul Hilton "Butch" Davis, Jr. (born November 17, 1951) is a former American football coach and currently an advisor for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former player in the United States.

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