University of North Carolina Athletics
Thorp, Baddour, Davis Address UNC Board Of Trustees
November 18, 2010 | Football
Nov. 18, 2010
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University of North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp, Athletic Director Dick Baddour and Head Football Coach Butch Davis updated the University's Board of Trustees Nov. 18 as the fact-finding portion of the investigation into the football program winds down.
"Through all of that work over four months, we have found no information that Coach Davis was involved in any of the problems that have surfaced," said Thorp. "I know that he feels a great responsibility for the situation because it happened on his watch, just as Mr. Baddour and I feel a great responsibility to address the problems. But we have found no reason to make any more changes in the football program other than the ones that we have already made in terms of changing assistant coaches and the student-athletes that we have had to process. So we're very confident moving together - the three of us and the folks who are supporting us - to address the problems that we have."
"Now it is time to wrap up the investigative phase and turn our attention to the future," said Baddour. "I too want to make a comment about our football team because they have been remarkable in their response. They have handled every kind of adversity and remained focused and competed at the highest level. I am proud of this team. I'm especially proud of the seniors and the leaders of this team.
"Coach Davis you have handled the most difficult times in a dignified and professional manner. I believe you were the right fit when we hired you and I continue to believe that. In fact, I believe that even more strongly."
"I want to make it perfectly clear to everyone that I am embarrassed and saddened and disappointed about the negative light that the things in the football program have shed on the University of North Carolina. As the head football coach, I take complete and full responsibility for everything that happens in the football program. It is certainly nothing that we are proud of. We are embarrassed by it. I am going to do everything as the head football coach to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
"At our first press conference, I made a statement that night that there is no one single player and there is no one single game and there is no one single season worth the character and integrity of this institution and this University. That's my commitment and my pledge to you as we move forward into the future of this program."
