UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp said this morning that while he still has questions about why Butch Davis didn’t know more about questionable behavior by his football players, the football coach didn’t play a role in anything under investigation by the NCAA.
“We don’t have any evidence that Coach Davis knew about or took part in any of the things that happened,” Thorp said Thursday in a meeting of a committee of the UNC system’s Board of Governors, which sets policy for all public universities including Carolina.
Another way of positioning this development would be to take the words directly from packplantpath in this message board thread:
“UNC officials have confirmed that football coach Chief Butch “MF” Davis is incompetent and had no idea that his star players were accepting improper benefits from agents. In addition, in no way did he know that his personally hired tutor for his son was also assisting football players with their classwork.”
2:40pm Update
WTVD’s Mark Armstrong has tweeted an interesting equivocation from ‘Young Holden’…
Interesting from Thorp on Butch. Asked directly, Thorp: ‘I didn’t say he didn’t know, I said there’s no evidence he knew.’
Another tweet of note was this one from SFN:
Guess who else genuinely didn’t know — Jim Valvano. What was the UNC & BOG stance on that? UNC’s transgressions dwarf what V didn’t know.
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