Today is a great day to be a Tar Heel, Don’t the door hit you fat, lying arse on the way out!

DTH, step up and do your job and take the administration to the cleaners in an editorial or two…or a whole edition

Finally. Bad timing though. Guess the new Trustees wanted to make their mark.

Telling a guy you support him for 13 months and then firing him without warning or cause. This is behavior worthy of the lowest of scumbags. The UNC board of trustees should be ashamed of themselves. This is utterly despicable backstabbing betrayal.

Despite all of the scandals, Butch Davis still has more integrity, honor and dignity than the board of trustees, Thorp and Baddour put together.

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This took way too long. Dick needs to go next……..and while we are at it……go ahead and have Roy boy sign a letter of resignation which we can regretfully accept if he goes on a cuss streak like he did last year.

Finally. The out of control football program is an absolute disgrace to the university. Butch Davis and his entire staff should have been fired a long time ago, when the severity and breadth of the wrong doing first became clear. Better late than never though.

UNC alumni: the damage from lost donations will be mitigated because donors, those of us who care more about academics than sports, will see this as a vital step forward the university is taking, and open our pockets even more.

The timing of this is very odd and an absolute disservice to the University. They think this is going to clean up academic integrity? Ridiculous!! People have always cheated and will continue to cheat. This sort of thing goes on at every major college sports program, unfortunately, even here in Chapel Hill.

You tell Butch to go the get the player who will help us win. And he does just that and when they turn up in Chapel Hill ill-prepared for the academic rigor – you then wonder why some of them decided to cheat!

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I am an alum and live in Southern California. I took great pride in Carolinas reputation when the University of So Cal started with their problems a few years back saying it wouldn’t happen at a school like Carolina. Now my friends here make fun of me every time I see them . “ what happened to Carolina? “ Just as bad as USC they say

Davis had to go… a LONG time ago. Unfortunately, the bad timing of his firing is just another move that shows what complete amateurs Thorpe, Baddour and the Board of Trustees have been during this debacle. The school’s reputation is tarnished and the administrators have been made to look like FOOLS. I love football and I’d love to be cheering the Heels in the Orange Bowl one day, but nothing related to football is remotely worth the kind of damage the school has experienced from this scandal. Let’s hope the next moves the administration makes deliver better results, but at this point I’ve pretty much lost faith in their ability to do the right thing in a timely manner.

C’mon people… he had to go. I don’t like the timing either, but better late than never.

UNC alumni, you embarrass me. I don’t care much for Dick Baddour either, but you’re refusing to support the athletics program because of this? What about all of the other clean, successful programs that need support? You’re really going to protest the university for making a move in an attempt to preserve the school’s academic reputation? You’re really that fickle? A football team (and a coach, for that matter) is not bigger than a university. And don’t be so naive, what was Butch thinking when he hired the sketchy John Blake with his agent friend on speed dial? And when he recruited dirty, arrogant players like Marvin Austin and Greg Little who ultimately hurt the football team and university? Was he displaying integrity then? And I haven’t even mentioned the personally employed tutor.

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Look, if we’re discussing the “integrity” and “reputation” of our university, how can we overlook the lack of these things in the administration? How can you string along Butch, his staff, and recruits/players into believing there is stability in the program and then fire him a month before the season? Firing butch is one thing that I’m not entirely sure of, but hell, have some courage/cajones and make the move in the off-season, quietly and out of the spotlight. If it’s a matter of the BOT bending Holden to their will, then shame on them. If it’s a matter of Holden making the solo decision, then shame on him. The damage done to the program is unbelievable. Any sense of stability left to this season, as well as the recruiting for the following year has been decimated by this shameless act of cowardice of firing a man long since the point of worrying about his job security.

To whom is this damaging the academic reputation of UNC? No one in South Korea is writing articles about the great downfall of our school. No one in North Carolina is writing that article. If you actually believe that football players having tutors writing their papers and then being punished for it is damaging to the university, then get over yourself.

the true damage will be done when the NCAA gets thru with us in November. That will set back the program and unfortunately the Butch Davis era will be a black mark for Carolina’s football program. Almost every other Head College Football Coach knew of Blake and some of his dealings. Butch was the only one that didn’t know?I really don’t think Butch has anyone to blame but himself on this.

Yeah, the timing is weird, but something tells me that’s because Thorpe saw the other shoe fall off the table and start to drop. My guess is we’ll hear it hit the floor in the next 10 days.

if Butch Davis was innocent then the university should have backed him up no matter what. If he was guilty of an infraction, he was fired correctly. I guess we need to ask ourselves, did the BOT throw a head football coach under the bus to protect our “precious” reputation? And if he was fired because the buck stops with the top dog then why are Dick Baddour and Chancellor Thorp still here? Shouldn’t they resign so we can start with a clean slate and build the university’s reputation from the ground up?

Thorp specifically stated that there was no other “shoe” preparing to drop. The University has thrown a good man under the bus at the worst time possible. The only reason that they’re firing him now is because season tickets and donations are locked down for the rest of the year.

Expect class action lawsuits over the blatant fraud which has been committed by Thorp and members of the Board of Trustees. Season ticket sales and Blue Zone contributions were made based on statements of confidence in Butch Davis from Carolina’s leadership. Firing him now is a deliberate attempt to defraud ticketholders and donors, and will not go unnoticed.

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FINALLY the Curse of the DOOK PUKE has been lifted! Now we can get ourTWO colors back-the original ones that date from 1795 and we can kiss that accursed NAVY blue good riddance. I said it before-The gods are not mocked-wear Dook Puke and you will get your ass kicked.

.Maybe the Fenan Football center will get OUR football history back as they clear out all the NFL tainted Farm-Team hokum off the walls and return Carolina Football to its true place. Go Heels!!

Like anyone, I don’t like the timing of this… its unfair for the players. But do some of you fans really expect the chancellor to act in the best interest of the athletics department? No, academics are the concern of him and the BOT. Some of you seem to be forgetting that its the investigation that has set the program back to most. Even if he would have fired him in the spring, we would still be put on probation. If Butch would have been more responsible and set up a more effective system of oversight, this would not have been a problem (not to mention that he should have never hired John Blake or recruited players such as Marvin Austin). The hierarchy should also shoulder some of the blame, seeing as they are also a part of the system. Since Butch’s oversight failed, Dick Baddour should also be blamed for failing to detect it earlier… a lot of people seem to be anxious to blame Holden Thorp too, but he was not chancellor when Butch was hired, so he put all of his trust in Dick Baddour (a person who has worked with the university and the athletics program for much longer). Yes, I am defending the chancellor in this situation… shoot me.

Sure, the past year has been frustrating and this makes it no easier… so its easy point fingers of blame and threaten to withdraw your support for the Rams Club, but is that really going to help the program that you love? Of course not… cooler heads will prevail in the end.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/07/28/1375517/unc-releasing-phone-records-up.html

It is funny that he was fired days before he was to release his phone records. Aren’t these available through a freedom of information request?