NCSU's O'Brien, UNC's Davis pull out the punch lines during Pigskin Preview

Posted Jul 20, 2007

In a few months, N.C. State's Tom O'Brien and North Carolina's Butch Davis will be matching wits on the football field. But Thursday the two new Big Four coaches were just witty at the fifth annual Triangle Pigskin Preview at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel. Before joining first-year N.C. Central head coach Mose Rison and Duke's Ted Roof at the head table, Davis and O'Brien huddled for a jovial, playful photo session. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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