Pigskin Preview Notebook: Butch Davis

Posted Jul 21, 2011
“It’s a big of a year of transition. We had 20 seniors on the football team last year, and probably 14 or 15 of those players played a huge amount for us at Carolina over the previous four years,” Butch Davis said. “So this is a little bit of a kind of ‘coming out’ party to find out whether some of our young football players can step up and accept the challenges.” (Rivals.com)

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