Cunningham faces a big test at UNC
Posted Oct 15, 2011
The split that Butch Davis' hiring initiated and firing exacerbated, between the Carolina Way and the Barons of the Blue Zone - between the genteel amateur aesthetic that has characterized North Carolina's athletic success for so long and the win-at-all-costs mentality that at its most extreme portrays Davis as a martyr - is very real and has the potential to be very damaging.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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