Forget the academic scandal while he was there.
What about Blake and his show cause? He was getting paid by an agent. Butch brought him in, that's on him as CEO. Heavy is the head who wears the crown, but that was serious, and he was responsible for hiring him and his actions. Butch admitted he screwed up by hiring him and not doing enough due diligence. That brought a lot of shame to the program and university.
He also had some 6-10 players who were getting paid by agents while at UNC. Thats almost a third of your starters. And that came out before the academic scandal, so the stink was already on the program BEFORE the grades thing came down. And I am not even considering that many feel he absolutely should have known about what was going on with academics and if he didn't know that's just as bad. But don't go there, because as I said I am not even considering that.
It's a bad look for a head coach/CEO and only in Butch circles do they not understand why he was let go. Perception is as important as incidents, and he failed on both counts. It sucks, because he had a lot of success there, and is a good guy, and WAS a good coach, but that's why top coaches and executives are compensated so well. They have to work on the edge, when when it goes south, they have been taken care of.
I think the ultimate gauge on him is the fact that none of the top 129 programs in America (FIU is probably 130 and just fired him) want anything to do with him nor have them for over a decade. It's a pretty liquid market, and it has spoken.
