Butch Davis is a football GOD!

Take a team, clone it and give them both identical coaching staffs on a neutral field. Make Butch the HC of one team and Diaz the other HC. Diaz's team wins by multiple scores.
 
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Take a team, clone it and give them both identical coaching staffs on a neutral field. Make Butch the HC of one team and Diaz the other HC. Diaz's team wins by multiple scores.

If Diaz and Butch put together their own teams and had the same coordinator call the games Butch wins by multiple scores.
 
The World of SAMs was incomplete without Ultimate SAM.

And thanks for reminding about the incomparable stupidity of third down screens. Forever hilarious. I was so empty without that simpleton sig. Today the Bills' coach McDermott actually called time out on 3rd and 8 when the Dolphins had a bunched formation right...3 receivers and only 2 defenders. But that's plenty to stop a moronic 3rd down screen. You have to be a rank moron to be scared of a 3rd down screen. The play unfolded and was wiped out well before the first down marker, even without sufficient defenders. But due to the time out the play didn't count and the Dolphins got an undeserved second chance. This time they threw beyond the marker and were rewarded with the first down.

Now I can start laughing again.

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Try not to be so terrified.
 
I always said he was a nightmare game coach.

Every game under him was a Chinese Fire Drill. The sidelines looked like the airfield at Lakehurst under the Hindenburg.

Every game: Multiple flags for too many men on the field, delay of game after a timeout, false starts on 3rd and short, etc. Compounded mistakes. A turnover, followed immediately by a defensive ***** up leading to a TD, followed by a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, etc.

That VT game, when we were up 10-0, with the ball in the red zone, and three plays later were down 21-`10.

That PSU game was his masterpiece. Every stupid coaching error possible, yet we are up, inside their 30, with third and inches, and a first down or FG wins the game. Two Coker Specials (slow developing, telegraphed dives against 11 defenders), and still have the game won. Except the sideline looked like a mosh pit, and we couldnt get a defense on the field, and PSU scores in seconds. It was a 10 yard pass, and 70 yard run after catch, as I recall?

The UW game in 2000. I remember Neiuhiesel telling the sideline reporter at half that he couldnt believe how his obvious, pop warner show man defense that dropped into zone had psyched out our playcalling, and that we were just giving the game away. Botch's idiocy in the second half, all those failed 2 pt trys, was the difference in the game.

The guy is a great recruiter, talent evaluator, but a clown as a game day coach, and HE should have seen Coker for what he was long before Coker got the HC job. (Coker was an awful OC for us under )


BS.

I've seen every coach you can name have bad games. Including our UM greats.

In fact, I wasn't very happy just a year ago during a four game run . . . Where were you?

No, I was not happy at all.

But "BS"? Do you remember the Botch years? I'll bet the farm we had the record or near it for too many men on the field penalties, and delay of game flags, during his tenure. Did you see the '99 PSU game? The EC game? The Cuse game?

The Butch sideline looked like Tokyo in a Kaiju movie. Just chaos and panic.


Yeah, I remember the Butch years. I remember the day they announced Schnellenberger and got excited - and of course I recall.

I also recall the Sports Illustrated. The calls to terminate UM football. I remember the program just tanked - almost impossible to get any recruits to even look at UM. I recall how short we were thanks to sanctions - and read how we (Butch) didn't even have enough players to scrimmage at one point.

Then Butch and crew started climbing out of the abyss. Hard part was over. Program turned around - and they guy who brought everyone through all that crap - the hard crap - well, he's the one that got cheated by the computers to play in the NC game in 2000, got screwed on his contract and that team Butch put together won the NC in 2001, and due entirely to a outright theft - Butch's team would have won the 2002 NC.

Yeah, I remember every coach's ***** up and successes. JJ didn't have any excuses, nor did Erickson, nor did Clappy. They were handed championship teams.

So no, I really don't want to hear some pups lamenting Butch Davis - just because he left for money - just like Schellenberger, just like JJ, and not nearly as bad as Erickson left the program with.

I saw panic and chaos in the mid seventies - forward. It comes, like seasons, and eventually it goes away.
 
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I always said he was a nightmare game coach.

Every game under him was a Chinese Fire Drill. The sidelines looked like the airfield at Lakehurst under the Hindenburg.

Every game: Multiple flags for too many men on the field, delay of game after a timeout, false starts on 3rd and short, etc. Compounded mistakes. A turnover, followed immediately by a defensive ***** up leading to a TD, followed by a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, etc.

That VT game, when we were up 10-0, with the ball in the red zone, and three plays later were down 21-`10.

That PSU game was his masterpiece. Every stupid coaching error possible, yet we are up, inside their 30, with third and inches, and a first down or FG wins the game. Two Coker Specials (slow developing, telegraphed dives against 11 defenders), and still have the game won. Except the sideline looked like a mosh pit, and we couldnt get a defense on the field, and PSU scores in seconds. It was a 10 yard pass, and 70 yard run after catch, as I recall?

The UW game in 2000. I remember Neiuhiesel telling the sideline reporter at half that he couldnt believe how his obvious, pop warner show man defense that dropped into zone had psyched out our playcalling, and that we were just giving the game away. Botch's idiocy in the second half, all those failed 2 pt trys, was the difference in the game.

The guy is a great recruiter, talent evaluator, but a clown as a game day coach, and HE should have seen Coker for what he was long before Coker got the HC job. (Coker was an awful OC for us under )


BS.

I've seen every coach you can name have bad games. Including our UM greats.

In fact, I wasn't very happy just a year ago during a four game run . . . Where were you?

No, I was not happy at all.

But "BS"? Do you remember the Botch years? I'll bet the farm we had the record or near it for too many men on the field penalties, and delay of game flags, during his tenure. Did you see the '99 PSU game? The EC game? The Cuse game?

The Butch sideline looked like Tokyo in a Kaiju movie. Just chaos and panic.


Yeah, I remember the Butch years. I remember the day they announced Schnellenberger and got excited - and of course I recall.

I also recall the Sports Illustrated. The calls to terminate UM football. I remember the program just tanked - almost impossible to get any recruits to even look at UM. I recall how short we were thanks to sanctions - and read how we (Butch) didn't even have enough players to scrimmage at one point.

Then Butch and crew started climbing out of the abyss. Hard part was over. Program turned around - and they guy who brought everyone through all that crap - the hard crap - well, he's the one that got cheated by the computers to play in the NC game in 2000, got screwed on his contract and that team Butch put together won the NC in 2001, and due entirely to a outright theft - Butch's team would have won the 2002 NC.

Yeah, I remember every coach's ***** up and successes. JJ didn't have any excuses, nor did Erickson, nor did Clappy. They were handed championship teams.

So no, I really don't want to hear some pups lamenting Butch Davis - just because he left for money - just like Schellenberger, just like JJ, and not nearly as bad as Erickson left the program with.

I saw panic and chaos in the mid seventies - forward. It comes, like seasons, and eventually it goes away.

But it followed him. remember his meltdown in the playoffs with Cleveland? Looked JUST like the Canes PSU game.

I am just offput by his gameday coaching. Then again, I always had a feeling that Fester, as OC, was a major source of the sideline meltdowns. That PSU game, the 2000 UW game, or the 2nd half of the 2000 FSU game, are classic Coker (choking playcalling, delay of games after Time Outs, etc)

One thing is for sure, NOBODY else thought too much of him. One brief stint at UNC that ended in a circus, and nobody but Canes fans wanting him.
 
The guy is a great recruiter, talent evaluator, but a clown as a game day coach
The NFL saw the complete opposite from you. They only hire the very best of college coaches, especially game coaching, since there is no recruiting. One of the two of you is wrong.
Dunning-Kruger prevents cognizance of which that would be.

Did you take a corse a learn a fancy name to throw around or just found it on line? Change up your usage some like, “to dumb to know better” or risk becoming your own best example of your pet phrase.

Oh, nfl usually sucks at plucking coaches out of colleges. The bad franchises are bad at everything, including picking coaches. Saban is classic example. Fins gave him the store and he sucked. Nick is smart enough to know he sucked and ran home to mommy.

Butch is greatest talent picker out of high school ever and made great players of them but game day coach he was not. Dude could see the wok of art inside the block of marble like nobody else. I would have gladly suffered 3 or 4 years of bad game days for the 30 1st round draft picks and back to back N.C. that would have followed.
 
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The World of SAMs was incomplete without Ultimate SAM.

And thanks for reminding about the incomparable stupidity of third down screens. Forever hilarious. I was so empty without that simpleton sig. Today the Bills' coach McDermott actually called time out on 3rd and 8 when the Dolphins had a bunched formation right...3 receivers and only 2 defenders. But that's plenty to stop a moronic 3rd down screen. You have to be a rank moron to be scared of a 3rd down screen. The play unfolded and was wiped out well before the first down marker, even without sufficient defenders. But due to the time out the play didn't count and the Dolphins got an undeserved second chance. This time they threw beyond the marker and were rewarded with the first down.

Now I can start laughing again.

Power ratings...Power ratings...Power ratings

Try not to be so terrified.

You've always loved the taste of my balls.

Glad you showed up to give another lick.

Assy booger, king of the bloviators. Makes like hes is the Don of all things handicapping but has NEVER once put up a pick here before a game.

He's like the drunk guy at the local dive bar slurring over his rotgut vodka as he tells you the time where he once picked the Patriots to win the Super Bowl.
 
For those knocking his gameday, remember this was his very first head coaching job. To compare you would have to look at others at their first job, all of our other coaches had been head coaches way before they got here, is it not possible he could have learned and got better ? I would sure as **** think that he was better on gameday 2016 than he was 2000. We know he got screwed his last year here, should have played for NC. He did apply a beatdown on the turds in the sugar. Can you honestly say had he stayed he would not have won a title, really ? MR was at UGA for how many years ? and how many did he win ?
 
From 2008 to 2014 – Davis was the head coach from 2007 through 2010 – no school in the ACC had more players selected in the first round than UNC.

The Tar Heels’ seven first-round draft picks during that span is one more than Florida State and one more than than Clemson and Virginia Tech combined.

Read more here: UNC?s NFL draft pipeline runs dry, years after Butch Davis firing | News & Observer

What was his overall record during that time? What about his ACC record?
 
Change up your usage some like, “to dumb to know better” or risk becoming your own best example of your pet phrase.
That's "too dumb", not "to", but carry on...without the slightest cognizance of course ;-)
 
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I told myself I was done with Butch Davis threads but F it.

Question: who was more important, or deserves more credit for our last championship? Butch or Coker?
 
From 2008 to 2014 – Davis was the head coach from 2007 through 2010 – no school in the ACC had more players selected in the first round than UNC.

The Tar Heels’ seven first-round draft picks during that span is one more than Florida State and one more than than Clemson and Virginia Tech combined.

Read more here: UNC?s NFL draft pipeline runs dry, years after Butch Davis firing | News & Observer

What was his overall record during that time? What about his ACC record?

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UNC

Before Butch:
2002: 3-9
2003: 2-10
2004: 6-6
2005: 5-6
2006: 3-9

Butch Years:
2007: 4-8 (He beat us)
2008: 8-5 (He beat us)
2009: 8-5 (He beat us)
2010: 8-5

2010: He was set up to make his run before the investigations started with 13 players suspended for the opening game along some missing part or all the games that season. From this team, 12 were invited to the NFL combine (most in the country) and 9 players were drafted.

At Miami, it took Butch until his 6th season to achieve top level success and that was because he started off with heavy sanctions. At UNC, he was on pace to achieve it in year 4.
 
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