The Hubert Davis watch continues, but all we have so far are bread crumbs to guide us into the coaching thicket at UNC.
Three intriguing developments: first, the final Hubert Davis Show of the year was canceled. Second, post-season meetings with UNC players have been postponed. And third, Elijah Davis, Hubert’s son who is on the team, has allegedly scrubbed his social media of UNC connections.
None of that is definitive, but they’re interesting individually, and together, striking. But we’ll see.
Hubert’s
support has been late, but we’ve seen more of it. UNC legend Larry Brown came out in favor of keeping him, while CBS analyst Jon Rothstein also has urged UNC to retain him, and makes a reasonable argument.
Some of the former UNC players, while unwilling to criticize Davis directly, have called for change of some sort. The most recent we saw was Justin Jackson.
Conspicuously quiet: Roy Williams. You’d think he would endorse his protégé.
So far, while many people online claim to know what’s going on, no one can verify anything.
One strange thing which makes no sense to us is this boomlet for Kenny Smith. Why?
That’s no knock on Kenny Smith, but he’s never coached a day in his life. He’s 62. That’s asking a lot.
As for some of the other candidates, if UNC decides to cut ties with Davis, the names most often mentioned have been:
- Nate Oats – Alabama – $ 18M buyout
- Todd Golden – Florida – $16M buyout
- Tommy Lloyd – Arizona $12M buyout
- Grant McCasland – Texas Tech – $8.4M buyout
- Dusty May – Michigan – $7.5M buyout
- Scott Drew – Baylor – $4.5M buyout
- T.J. Otzelberger – Iowa State – $4M buyout
- Mark Byington – Vanderbilt – unknown
- Billy Donovan – Chicago Bulls
Some of the buyouts are going to be tough to swallow, assuming that UNC does, in fact, replace Davis.
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