DeCock: Butch Davis firing right move at wrong time

Posted Jul 27, 2011
By firing Butch Davis now, Holden Thorp and the trustees put the players on North Carolina's football team who didn’t do a thing wrong -- the vast majority of the players on this year's roster -- in an almost impossible position going forward. A coaching change a week before the start of training camp is about as big a negative as you can slap onto a team’s season. It’s an uphill climb for the Tar Heels now. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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