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

((HT: WRALSportsfan.com))

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...

Butch Davis posts YouTube PSA to defend himself

Butch Davis

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Well, this is kind of odd.

It seems former North Carolina football head coach Butch Davis has decided to take to the airways and papers to defend his legacy in Chapel Hill.

Davis lost his job after the school came under intense NCAA scrutiny for a number of issues including suspended players, an assistant coach (John Blake) who was accused of being a front man for an agent and tutoring/academic issues by the team.

He harped...at length about his accomplishments at Miami...but didn't talk much about the specific issues that plagued him at UNC. We also found the section where Davis speaks about Blake is heavily edited and Davis claims no knowledge of Blake's friendship with agent Gary Wichard.

Oh, he apparently did an Op-Ed for the Raleigh News-Observer too. You can read it RIGHT HERE

He seems to feel obligated to excuse the traffic ticket problems and other issues only saying maybe he should have known and they were dealt with once they were brought to his attention.

Davis is choosing this forum to defend what he feels is his honor. And no, we understand his point that he was never accused/charged with any of these issues. We don't know if this is his way of trying to let people know he is unemployed and looking for work. Either way, it is an odd way to do it.

If you have 9 minutes of your day to spend watching this, here ya go: