Butch Davis Understands...He Really Does...

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So, we now know what Butch Davis is up to...

He is keeping up his end of the bargain with the University of North Carolina as a "consultant" with the Tamps Bay Bucs and their new head coach Greg Schiano...

That way, he keeps up with his buy-out clause and everything is cool...

He understands why the university made him the fall guy (his words) in the situation that had academic fraud and coaching improprieties that led to Davis being fired a week before the football season started in 2011.

The larger question was: "How could you NOT know what's going on, dude...?"

His answer from the interview:

“It's a question that I've asked and thought about a lot over the last several months. What I would tell you is I think that we knew, we worked extraordinarily hard to know a lot of things,” Davis said. “There were things that would happen with athletes that we would find out immediately. (And) yes, take care of it.”

Up until the firing, NC AD Dick Baddour was supportive of Davis, publicly, and Davis admits that problems even preceded him by two years that he felt compelled to take care of... by his numbers, Davis dismissed 18 players in his early days.

Davis also discusses the Jennifer Wiley situation and the impermissable benefits that were apparently given by her during the time she was a tutor- a situation created, according to Davis, by the school in a letter his wife received.

Here is the Jeff Gravely interview in its entirety...

It's good stuff and we commend Gravely for his get...

Holden Thorp Next To Step Down At UNC

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The accumulation of all of the scandals in all of the different departments has taken its latest pound of flesh- current and soon-to-be former Chancellor Holden Thorp.

At the end of the 2012-13 school year, he is stepping down...

“I will always do what is best for this university," Thorp said in a statement. "This wasn’t an easy decision personally, but when I thought about the university and how important it’s been to me, to North Carolinians and to hundreds of thousands of alumni, my answer became clear."

Here's the lead in Raleigh...

Thorp has been chancellor since July 2008. He was the dean of the school's College of Arts and Sciences and was even a Chemistry professor in his past life on campus.

He will go back to being the chemistry professor and researcher. He will get his $420,000 chancellor's salary for a year, and then 60-percent of that figure when he goes back to being a professor.

Last week, Vice Chancellor for Advancement Matt Kupec and Tami Hansbrough, a major gifts officer at UNC and the mother of Tyler Hansbrough, resigned from their jobs in the latest stage of resignations and rearrangements.

And the HQ doesn't think that Thorp is the end of the worst scandal in the school's history, either...

Former NC Governor Asked To Keep Investigating Tarheels

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Former North Carolina Governor Jim Martin has been asked by UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp to continue the investigation into alleged academic shenanigans at the school in Chapel Hill.

It is the continuation of the McAdoo/African-American Studies investigation from last summer which was an extension of the investigation from last May that uncovered unauthorized grade submissions, forged signatures and other improprieties in 54 classes on campus.

Here's team coverage with Erin Hartness and Beau Minnick...

After Martin is done, the university will have another task force put together to figure out what to do about the Martin task force results...

So, let's see...

There will be an investigation about an investigation that will lead to another investigation...

Check...