If Davis stays and keeps recruiting and winning like we think he can, have no fear, we’ll draw enough insufferable and obnoxious bandwagon Wal Marters to do our hoops program (or the SEC) proud.

I just dont see why Davis would leave UNC yet. He’s going to win the ACC Coastal either this year or the next, and likely from then onwards they’ll be at the top of that division every year. That seems like a good chance to get to a BCS game every year to me. He wont get that at UT with Florida and Georgia in the same division, and playing Alabama every single year.

The only question is whether a)he wants the extra money (which UNC could pay) or b) the status as Top Dog on campus.

If I were a coach, I’d take the potential of a flagship university’s football program in a basketball centric – but BCS – conference over an SEC job any day. The path to success is less rocky through the ACC almost every year. Why do you people think FSU joined that other league anyway? For basketball?

Plus, Tennessee is one of the great CFB programs in the nation. No doubt. But it’s not the plum job of the SEC. There’s little instate recruiting talent, you have to go national and your competing against Florida, Georgia and Bama who can lock up their respective states. It’s just a tougher deal than UNC.

Davis could be in the Orange Bowl THIS YEAR.

You know why you are becoming more inconsistent in recruiting? Saban, Meyer, Miles, Richt…heck Tommy Bowden was beating you out for recruits.

Tennessee’ s success under Fulmer came when they were in a watered down SEC where they only had to play two teams with talent and coaching, Alabama and Florida.

Now, LSU, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, and South Carolina all have coaches who can both recruit and coach. You play 4 of the above every season, and most of the years you will be playing 5.

All of the above schools have much better in-state talent to recruit, and will continue to make it harder for you to cherrypick their states. I will say the same about the states of Oklahoma and Texas.

You are going to find during this coaching search that Tennessee is not as desired a coaching spot as you folks think, and you will be overpaying for whomever you hire.

It’s easy to recruit nationally at Tennessee with the name recognition, the facilities, NFL factory status etc… which is why we have two top 5 recruiting on the roster currently (although you’d never know it by how they’ve been managed and developed).

As far as the expectations and fear of the SEC, successful coaches don’t think that way. They have type A/ Alpha male personalities with varying degree of ego. They all want to prove they are the best. And to be the best you have to beat the best, and the best my friends are in the SEC.

Lastly, I don’t know if we WILL, but we CAN offer to double his 2.2 million salary. Money talks.

As to the Davis-Brown departure comparisons, UNC has walked through the valley of the shadow of death and now knows the economic perils of leaving the program in the hands of untested buffoons. Mack had UNC in the top 5; no reason Butch won’t see that same potential, especially given the big fish he’s reeling in on the recruiting trail.

Mack Brown left UNC for Austin when he was in his late 40s and still looking to climb the ladder.

Butch Davis is in his late 50s, has already coached at Miami and in the NFL, and is a cancer survivor. He’s in a completely different place in his life now than Brown was in when he left Chapel Hill.

The comparison is not really apt, and there’s no guarantee that Davis will leave UNC.

You have to wonder why the State fans are posting this information on their blog? Perhaps it’s a bit of a wish-fulfillment–searching for some reason that Davis might leave? A little afraid of what’s going on in CH?