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November-13th-2006, 09:38 AM
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Butch Davis has agreed to a deal that will make him the new head football coach at North Carolina, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer.
Davis
The Observer cites six sources connected to the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference, saying that an official announcement is expected as early as Monday.
Current Tar Heels coach John Bunting, who has led the team to a 1-9 season, was fired Oct. 23 but will finish out the season.
Davis is the former coach of both the Miami Hurricanes and the NFL's Cleveland Browns.
Steve Kirschner, UNC's associate athletics director for communications, told the paper Sunday, "There is no news to announce on the coaching search today."
Various media reports last week indicated that Davis and the Tar Heels had completed contract talks, but a North Carolina source speaking on the condition of anonymity told ESPN.com that negotiations between Davis' agent and the university were still ongoing.
A deal "hadn't yet been finalized, but it seems we're headed in that direction," the source told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach.
Davis won a national championship as an assistant under Jimmy Johnson in Miami in the 1987 season, then two Super Bowl rings as an assistant for the Dallas Cowboys.
He was 51-20 as Miami head coach from 1995-2000 after taking over a Hurricanes program that mired in NCAA sanctions.
Davis was 24-36 in Cleveland, with only one trip to the playoffs, and resigned during the 2004 season. He has been an analyst for the NFL Network for the past two years.
North Carolina Athletics director Dick Baddour did not return a phone message left by the Observer Sunday. David was also unreachable.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2659982
Butch Davis has agreed to a deal that will make him the new head football coach at North Carolina, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer.
Davis
The Observer cites six sources connected to the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference, saying that an official announcement is expected as early as Monday.
Current Tar Heels coach John Bunting, who has led the team to a 1-9 season, was fired Oct. 23 but will finish out the season.
Davis is the former coach of both the Miami Hurricanes and the NFL's Cleveland Browns.
Steve Kirschner, UNC's associate athletics director for communications, told the paper Sunday, "There is no news to announce on the coaching search today."
Various media reports last week indicated that Davis and the Tar Heels had completed contract talks, but a North Carolina source speaking on the condition of anonymity told ESPN.com that negotiations between Davis' agent and the university were still ongoing.
A deal "hadn't yet been finalized, but it seems we're headed in that direction," the source told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach.
Davis won a national championship as an assistant under Jimmy Johnson in Miami in the 1987 season, then two Super Bowl rings as an assistant for the Dallas Cowboys.
He was 51-20 as Miami head coach from 1995-2000 after taking over a Hurricanes program that mired in NCAA sanctions.
Davis was 24-36 in Cleveland, with only one trip to the playoffs, and resigned during the 2004 season. He has been an analyst for the NFL Network for the past two years.
North Carolina Athletics director Dick Baddour did not return a phone message left by the Observer Sunday. David was also unreachable.