Tar Heels' Davis says process will take time

Posted Dec 11, 2006

North Carolina played one of its biggest nonconference basketball games Dec. 2, but for eight minutes the afternoon belonged to a man who had been on campus for less than a week. Butch Davis made his first official public appearance as UNC's football coach at halftime of the UNC-Kentucky game. He walked onto the court through the tunnel used by visiting team uses, and his first step forward, shown on the Smith Center video boards, produced a sudden, thunderous welcome. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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