UNC’s NFL draft pipeline runs dry, years after Butch Davis firing

Posted May 1, 2015
The college-to-NFL pipeline that Butch Davis laid in Chapel Hill had started to dry long ago, and now North Carolina has appeared to squeeze the last remaining talent out of it in the years after it fired Davis in the summer of 2011 amid an NCAA investigation. (Charlotte Observer)

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