Butch Davis was most recently the head football coach at Florida International University.
24 Facts About Butch Davis
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Butch Davis was head coach of the University of Miami's Hurricanes football team from 1995 to 2000 and the NFL's Cleveland Browns from 2001 to 2004.
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Butch Davis was hired by the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an advisor in February 2012.
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Butch Davis returned to head coaching duties in 2017 when he assumed the role with Florida International University.
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Butch Davis led the team to three consecutive bowl games from 2017 to 2019.
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Butch Davis had an acrimonious exit from the position in 2021.
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Butch Davis was born on November 17,1951, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to Paul and Pat Butch Davis.
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Butch Davis attended high school at Bixby High School in Bixby, Oklahoma where he was an all-state fullback and defensive end for the Spartans football team and graduated in 1970.
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Butch Davis held his first head coaching job at Will Rogers High School in 1978.
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In 1979, Butch Davis began a successful 15-year association with Jimmy Johnson, first as a receivers and tight ends coach at Oklahoma State University for the Cowboys, then later as defensive line coach at the University of Miami.
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Butch Davis followed Jimmy Johnson to Dallas, where Butch Davis was promoted to defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys in 1993 after the departure of Dave Wannstedt.
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Butch Davis was hired as the head football coach at the University of Miami in January 1995.
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Butch Davis became head coach of the Cleveland Browns in 2001, inheriting a team that won five games combined in the previous two years.
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Butch Davis was the only coach to lead the expansion Browns to the playoffs, until Kevin Stefanski would do so in the 2020 season.
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On November 27,2006, Butch Davis officially succeeded John Bunting, who was fired in October 2006 after posting one winning season in the previous six seasons as head coach of the Tar Heels.
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Butch Davis took over a program that had seen three winning seasons in the past eight years, and none since 2001.
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The rumors grew louder when Houston Nutt was forced to resign at Arkansas, but Butch Davis denied he was leaving.
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On November 21,2007, Butch Davis agreed to a one-year contract extension, along with a raise of about $291,000 annually.
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On July 27,2011, Butch Davis was fired by UNC chancellor Holden Thorp amid an NCAA investigation of academic misconduct and allegations players receiving improper benefits from agents.
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On September 19,2011, in response to an NCAA notice of allegations, Butch Davis was never mentioned in the NCAA inquiry and had no involvement in the investigation.
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On November 14,2016, Butch Davis confirmed he was leaving his analyst position at ESPN and agreed to a five-year contract to take the head coaching job at Florida International.
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Butch Davis claimed that player safety equipment was at least a decade old, thus having to rely on donated equipment from Mississippi State.
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Butch Davis attacked the university for prohibiting the coaching staff from conducting visits with recruits.
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In October 2021, the university posted a job opening for head football coach while Butch Davis still held the position.