Update: AD Dick Baddour is out
I thought it was odd that with everything going on in his life, someone would take the time to correct an N&R article that “suggested that North Carolina football coach Butch Davis played a round of golf at Pinehurst on Monday morning” when in fact he did not.
That was the absolute least of Davis’ troubles. The N&R’s Ed Hardin —who was a real party-pooper after the NFL lockout was resolved —- goes off:
The decision to fire Davis was an admission that the school could no longer justify his presence at the head of the program. It might also mean that the school no longer wants to pursue a big-time college football program. We’ll see.
Carolina will play the 2011 season in the shadow of the giant Loudermilk Center for Student Excellence, a dubious addition to what was once a humble and stately football stadium completed amid the pine trees in 1927.
That was back when a run at big-time football didn’t come with a trail of NCAA investigators, cheating athletes and dirty football coaches.
UNC’s decision to cut down pine trees and build the $70 million end zone monstrosity, mockingly called the “death star” during last year’s construction phase, will forever stand as a reminder of the Tar Heels’ sloppy run at a national football championship.
I’d say pretty much all of Carolina’s runs at a national championship have been sloppy, dating back to the Dick Crumb era. As for the NFL, I just kinda sighed at first, but the ensuing feeding frenzy has fired me up.
