Another one bites the dust!

That's not promising. I'm just about done with UNC.

GONNA PUKE

HT is such a pansy sucker. His first instinct would be to throw BD under the bus.

This is disgusting. I just don't understand UNC's administration.

If they were going to fire Butch, they should have done so a year ago when all of this started. To fire him now is a cowardly act that will set the football program back 5 years.

the BOT are idiots. They build the blue zone, asking for more money, then drop this on the fans right before the season. We should all ask for a refund. Unreal

Just saved some money in 2012. My Ram's Club membership is done

Really? Really? And I thought the timing of the NCAA investigation was bad. It better be due to some new information that was just discovered. If they are just deciding they have to pull their support due to the media pressure then they will learn that "support" cuts both ways.

Keep BD at the helm a little longer...giving the appearance that MAYBE the NCAA won't be coming down too hard.
Why? To keep those $'s rolling into the Kenan renovation project, seat/suite sales, and all the other big $ programs with football.
If this is true, its painfully apparent the administration simply wanted to fool donors into continuing to pour in money in the hopes that all would be well in 2-3 years.
Congrats UNC Athletic Dept. Heck of a plan.

Why would they do this now? Must have found out something bad.


Our Defense is now out the window. Who would want to come coach a team when everyone is behind a great coach and then turned on him, and that's not counting the NCAA.


goodbye any dreams of ever having a good football program.
He has not been implicated in ANYthing.
Most of the "infractions" are lame and the result of poor choices by INDIVIDUALS.
He turned Miami into a powerhouse while rebuilding their image after serious sanctions.
He steered the team through unreal adversity last year.
Truly, my support of the football program and athletics department will be greatly diminished if he were fired without some NEW smoking gun.


Holy ****. If true I'm done with this football program...for a few years.


Has to be new information that ties him directly to the infractions. No way this could happen otherwise at THIS LATE A DATE.


I can categorically say this is the stupidest thing, timing-wise, UNC athletics has done in a long, LONG time.


I've witnessed 32 years of UNC BS on the football side of things. More bush league garbage. No wonder this program never gets over the hump. Dick Crum out, Mack Brown in. Mack can't win a big game to save his life unless the talent advantage is so overwhelming it's almost comical. Torbush = bad hire. Bunting = ridiculous hire. Now firing Butch(apparently) this close to the start of the season. Bush league. Program is dead. I'm waiting for tipoff in November


I quess they decided that after we recruit 2-3 star players for the next 3-5 yrs, that we will not need a 2 million dollar coach to coach them.


I mean, the timing is simply baffling.


Arrrrrrrrrr, this means we could get Mike Leach!


This has to be about new information. If not, this shouldn't have been done right before the season. They should have given players time to transfer. Really poor timing on this decision.


Holy ****. No eff ing way.


Dickie and Holden should be the next out the door. what a cluster-f this entire situation has been.


This is sounding a lot like a new BOT coup d'etat. No new info is what several sources are saying. Thorp forced into action by BOT.


This is just totally unbelievable...what a sick feeling in the pit of my gut.


a) we are truly a cursed football program
b) we are set back at least 5 years
c) Baddour should have been fired pre-Doherty
d) Maybe beyond expansion, it's time to consider rallying other schools to leave the worthless NCAA.


We have been dragged through the ringer for a player sleeping on a friend's couch, a girl voluntarily helping with a bibliography, and maybe some free drinks at a party. None of that is abnormal for college students. Meanwhile, the entire SEC laughs and prepares to run through another year as the undisputed champions, and we get to be laughed at. This will be viewed as nothing but an admission of more guilt. The NCAA is beyond repair. We can run our own playoff systems for football and basketball. This is garbage.


Does anyone honestly want to stand up and "thank" Butch for all he has done for the Carolina program? Does anyone here think he didn't know about the agents, trips, cash, tutor etc.....???????? Come on people. He cheated. He had idiots for football players that bought into the "we won't get caught" philosophy. Bad thing about it is Butch will be working in the NFL next year and we probably will be on a two season bowl ban. If he was just in Pinehurst the last two days talking about the season and the first day back he gets canned do you think he knew it was coming? NO. He got caught with no one to blame it on.


Yep, the essence of incompetence. Worse than all of state's idiocy, be it chuck the chest or hoops or debbie yow's crazy *****-fest with Sweaty Gary. At least a 5 yr gutting of the football program, probably more like 8 to 10. Unreal mismanagement...


I've been in the Rams Club for 35 years and this is it for me. I have been watching UNC rebuild every 5 years since Tatum died. It's ridiculous! F UNC and F Baddour and Thorpe. You will get no more of my money and I hope the program just crumbles completely.


Now I know why Carolina basketball gives me so much more pride and comfort. This is an embrassment.



And with that...I am finished.