Third season often no charm for coaches

Posted Oct 27, 2009
Into the second half of their third seasons, it's become clear that N.C. State's Tom O'Brien and North Carolina's Butch Davis have slipped into dangerous patterns. In both football programs, head coaches who struggled through their third seasons wound up having very limited shelf life. The exception was Chuck Amato at State. At 11-3 overall and 5-3 in the ACC, the third season was his best in a seven-year stay. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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