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always struck me as a really reasonable,
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intelligent, professional guy, but
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these last couple of days
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has made me completely rethink that.
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It's one thing to coach poorly in the
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tournament. Hey, a lot of great coaches
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have had bad days. A lot of great
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coaches have had been the been the
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victim of big upsets or collapses, choke
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jobs. Hubert Davis, it has not been
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great at Chapel Hill. Year number one,
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he goes to the championship game. He
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knocks off Duke to close down coach K.
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Cameron. He beats Duke again to the
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Final Four. That's as good as it's ever
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going to get. Ever since then, it's gone
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down and down and down. Now, they're
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scraping by just to make the tournament.
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and he of course loses the big lead in
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the first round. But I'm not worried
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sometimes that happens to good coaches
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What I'm bothered by is two things that
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happened after that. The press
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conference in which he was defiant in
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the face of any and all questions,
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including those that were not only
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completely professional, but also soft.
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I mean, guys were almost apologetically
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asking Hubert Davis about what happened
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and he still was defiant and
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unprofessional and belligerent with
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them. That's the first part. All right.
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So, that part bothers me because you're
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the head coach and you've got to be at
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your best when things are at their
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But even that I might be able to say is
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a bad moment for a good guy. And then
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Jeff Goodman, Field of 68, College
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Basketball Insider, had a report
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that Hubert Davis didn't even quote want
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Now, let's peel back the onion here.
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Jeff Goodman's a very wellconed insider.
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So, who do we think was his source here?
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probably Hubert Davis. If it wasn't
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Hubert, probably his agent.
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It certainly wouldn't be North Carolina.
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It certainly wouldn't be the AED or the
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chancellor at UNC that hired Hubert
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Davis when the report is Hubert Davis
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didn't even want this job. Why? Well,
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you're following a legend in Roy
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and you know, this wasn't exactly the
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way I guess Hubert Davis had planned his
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career going, whatever that means.
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He was a very popular guy on on TV.
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Maybe he knew walking into those shoes,
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he would immediately become unpopular
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because he could never live up to Roy,
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never live up to Dean before that. Fine.
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If this was a job you never wanted, A,
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why'd you take it? B, why haven't you
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And C, why is this just coming out now?
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This to me reeks of Hubert Davis calling
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a guy that he knows in the media and
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defending himself before he gets fired.
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I broke up with you before you broke
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broke up with me. I never even liked
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her. Why'd you get married? I never even
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That's what this reeks of, which is the
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ultimate ultimate unprofessionalism.
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Do you like the money? Do you like the
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stature? Do you like the notoriety? Did
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you like the winning? Did you like going
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to the national championship game? Did
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you like going to the final four? Did
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you like cutting down the nets to go to
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the final four? Did that do anything for
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you, humor? Did you like when you were
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winning, walking around campus and being
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high-fived and being cheered? Did you
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like your coaches shows? Did you like
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all the benefit the benefits that come
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out of being the head coach at UNC?
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Because if this is a job you never
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wanted, why are you still there? And why
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did you take the job in the first place?
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And if you're going to tell me that you
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took it because basically Roy set you up
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and you had to out of a favor for him,
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now is not the time to say I never want
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this anyway, now is not the time. Not
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after you acted like a petulant child in
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the postgame press conference after your
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team blew a 19-point lead in the second
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half. Not now. Not now.
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I don't want to hear it now because all
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the things that come with being the head
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coach at UNCC you have enjoyed up until
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and now suddenly you have your worst
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moment and the report comes out he never
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I always thought Hubert Davis was a
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really bright, interesting, reputable
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guy. And what I've seen over the last
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two days since that loss has flipped my
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opinion because those are two really bad
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moments for him. Really bad. And if he
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gets fired this week,
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it would be completely understandable
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because a the results on the floor have
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not been good, but also b you don't know
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how to comport yourself after a loss.
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And then c after all of that, you said
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this is not a this is not a job that I
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even wanted. Well, okay, guess what?
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of coaches out there, it is a job they
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absolutely would want because that is
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one of the best jobs of the country.
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It's one of the three best jobs of the
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country probably. I would imagine you
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would have people crawling over bodies
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to get to coach that program.
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So please save it for another
