Tar Heels Football

When UNC football coach Butch Davis looks across the green carpet Saturday night to an LSU football team not besieged by serious sports agent and athletic tutor investigations like the ones going on…

On Quinton Coples’ move to defensive tackle and if his height poses a problem: “I personally believe that if you can play in the defensive line, given the things that you ask kids to do, I think you…

North Carolina head football coach Butch Davis met with the media Thursday afternoon for the final time before the Heels leave for Atlanta Friday morning. “If there is a question of any player’s…

Butch Davis’ media availability on Thursday afternoon made it seem as though Saturday night’s game against LSU was more than two days away. It may as well have been a month away, judging by the…

Head coach Butch Davis talks about the season opener against LSU and the offseason issues facing North Carolina.

The first Butch Davis Live! radio show is set for Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room at Top of the Hill , with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. Woody Durham, who enters his 40th year as the Tar…

The gap in game experience between UNC’s first- and second-team defense is 207 combined starts. The difference in talent is not as wide, according to coach Butch Davis. But with the uncertainty…

University of North Carolina head coach Butch Davis has suspended senior defensive tackle Marvin Austin indefinitely. “This decision is not a result of the ongoing NCAA review,” says Davis. “Marvin…

Both UNC football coach Butch Davis and LSU coach Les Miles were reserved when they spoke with reporters Monday afternoon about Saturday night’s season-opening game in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff. Before…

UNC has not finished better than .500 in ACC play since 2004 (finished 5-3 in 2004). Under Butch Davis, UNC is 11-13 in ACC play. UNCs season hinges in large part on how they respond to the current…

In Monday’s game notes, there was no roster and there was no depth chart. Head coach Butch Davis said he has a tentative one, but it’s been very fluid. As UNC’s football program prepares for the…

During his introductory press conference in Chapel Hill, Butch Davis lauded the Tar Heel football program as a “sleeping giant” and promised to end the slumber. That was back on Nov. 27, 2006. Yet…

Despite the checks and balances, UNC finds itself investigating whether a former tutor who was employed by both the school and Tar Heels football coach Butch Davis committed academic misconduct while…

This was supposed to be the year that UNC made its break into the national spotlight. With a stout defense built by fourth-year coach Butch Davis and a No. 18 preseason ranking — their highest since…

The Daily Tar Heel’s Jonathan Jones sits down with Butch Davis before the Thursday August 26 press conference to discuss the season opener against LSU, off-season progress and the ongoing NCAA…