The Hubert Davis situation is heating up, and all signs point to a parting of ways between the five-year head coach and the university. In Davis’s five-year run, he led the Tar Heels to a national championship, a regular-season ACC championship, a No. 1 seed, and a 125-52 record.
On the other hand, Davis also led Carolina to be the first team in history to be named the preseason number one overall team and miss the tournament the same year. Last season, the Tar Heels barely made the field as an 11-seed and, most recently, a 6-seed with back-to-back first-round exits, sparking the discussion of a breakup.
Before any decision can be made on whether or not the university would fire Hubert Davis, they must analyze who would take his place and if there are any candidates worth firing Davis for.
With North Carolina being one of the most premier head coaching gigs in the country, and possibly the sport, there are certainly quite a handful of coaches that would at least be interested in the opportunity.
Normally, the rule has been that North Carolina stays within the “family,” and any future head coaches would land within the Dean Smith coaching tree. However, when looking at the potential candidates within the “family”, Hubert Davis may just be the best option out of the bunch. This may force Carolina to finally seek answers outside, and if they did, who would they shoot for?
Jay Wright
It would take a premier job to get Jay Wright to come out of retirement, and the head coach for North Carolina may be the job that convinces him to come back to basketball…