UNC adds assistant coach to replace Blake

The most intriguing aspect of Coiner's hire is that it casts some light into Butch's possible future at UNC - which I had written off as done by season's end.  One would expect that, if UNC has plans - or even sees it as a possibility - to ditch Davis at some point, then why would they approve his hiring another staffer?

Maybe I'm all wrong and maybe, just maybe, Butch is the saintly saver of programs he's reputed to be.  Maybe being the captain of a ship that clearly has more below the waterline than above doesn't necessarily reflect on the captain.  Whatever the case, my theory about Butch's imminent demise has been called into question by this most recent turn of events.  I would expect his request for a new defensive line coach to be met with a resounding "No!" by the UNC powers-that-be . . . if his head truly was on the chopping block.  I would think they'd tell him to make do with what he had, at least until the NCAA review is completed.

I suppose I'll refrain from further theorizing until all the chickens have come home to roost.  This stuff just doesn't make sense.  Apparently the UNC administration has good reason to back Butch and, in light of all that is swirling around him, that could only mean some empirical knowledge of Butch's innocence in the two scandals currently being investigated.  But what of my theory that, despite the amount of blood on Butch's hands (or lack thereof), he's still the head coach and responsible for everything football-related?  Doesn't a good captain always go down with his ship?  Wouldn't it appear to be in UNC's best interest (as a University, not as a pit-stop for talented athletes) to simply clean house in the football department at season's end and start anew?  Wouldn't that make it clear to the world just what the priorities are at Carolina and show the commitment of UNC's non-jocks to reinstate and maintain the school's previously sterling reputation?

Then again, maybe the NCAA & university officials are just chasing ghosts around Chapel Hill.  Doubtful?  At this point, sure.  Possible?  I guess so.  But really, why not?  Nothing else here seems to make any sense.

We'll just have to wait and see. 

As for new coach Coiner . . . well, I hope he hasn't just jumped aboard a sinking ship.

Anybody see that Saunders was dismissed from SC?  Guy got what he deserved.
 

that the majority of the people commenting here would be smart enough to not totally mirror my opening comment.  There is no way you guys actually went/go to college.

The Rams Club will take care of Blake's 'departure money', so the University won't bear the expense, right ? I'm assuming the University will have to pay coach Coiner's salary, whatever that will be.

A new coach hired. A running back cleared to play. Wow. Terrific. What about the quiet "investigation" into academic fraud?

The NCAA wants to promote "big time" Division One athletics, creating a massive bureaucracy, the climate for outlandish coaching incomes, Billions of Dollars in TV contracts, Logo and mascot clothing and paraphenalia sales and future professional employment.

At the same time, the professionals float around between coaching jobs, working for scouting combines, clothing/shoe/equipment marketing operations and broadcasters.

While coaching at the NCAA level, these professionals are to walk away  from their professional contacts,  and in the bargain enforce the NCAA's  rules which run counter to the pseudo-amateur world they have created.

Butch Davis has credentials of being able to clean up "dirty" programs.  But there is no way to recruit a staff without the risk that  someone, from laundry and locker room cleaning staff to assistant head coach, will continue long established contact with a verbotin NFL player's agent. 

With the NCAA, there needs to be no actual misconduct, just a technical brush against NCAA rules is adequate to bring penalties, suspensions and fines. 

Maybe Blake was responsible for actually crossing the line, maybe some UNC cheerleader or co-ed on one of the many UNC campuses, has been responsible for contacting a scholarship athlete in hope of a romantic relationship.

'Maybe several accused players did accept airfare and expenses from an old friend, now an NFL player represented by an agent, who is also assistant coach for the team.

With his track record, Butch Davis is not  neccessarily responsible for or implicated in  any of the alledged midsconduct.

On the other hand, Osama bin Laden is a logical candidate for a laundry room job, from which he has been ennabled to make bombs. Relax, those bombs are only to be used against  Aryan Nation's training camps.

But of course, the haters among us must attempt to cast insults and slurs against the democratically elected [With a huge majority] president, because he obviously has huge amounts of time to devote to undercutting UNC athletics while securing help from Erskine Bowles to control the federal deficit.

The official Treasury department report for fiscal year 2009-2010 reveals the first full year of the Obama/Biden administration produced reduced federal spending, a full 8% below the last full year of the Bush/Cheney administration.  This despite the awful economic collapse and two mis-managed wars Bush/Cheney left.

Maybe some of the haters can find grounds to attack Obama/Biden about that 8% reduction in federal spending. 

that this guy is a liar, cheater and has strong ties with the tutor who most certainly wrote papers for the entire team.  He also set up Jim Valvano to get run out of NC State, and is a strong supporter of Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama.  The university should be shut down for this hire.