Skip Holtz to UNC????

Attractive? How?

Small stadium
No fan support whatsoever
Will ALWAYS be second to basketball...

Pros..
State University
Major conference
Nice facilities

Yes, it's attractive for an up and coming coach...NOT for an established guy...

 

Petrino has Louisville clicking on all cylinders. He won't come, but not because UNC wouldn't ask.

 

That's what got you Bunting.

 

Great university, lots of cash, active alumni base, beautiful stadium, great conference

60K - hardly tiny

Not really. When the team is good, the fans are there.

True, but last I saw the two teams weren't competing against each other and played in different seasons.

I agree.

Beamer was willing to leave VT for the job.

 

huh? beamer turned down unc

 

He agreed to take the job, but Baddour let him get on a plane back to Blacksburg, because Baddour is an idiot.

 

Beamer screwed UNC to get higher salaries for himself and his assistants at VA Tech.

 

Beamer headed to Carolina?
Sources cite caution, considering last summer's saga with KU coach Roy Williams

By Ron Green Jr, Charlotte Observer

Monday, November 27, 2000

Barring a Roy Williams-like turn of events, Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer is expected to become the next football coach at North Carolina.

Beamer, the consensus national coach of the year in 1999, spent Sunday in Chapel Hill with his wife and attorney, and though he didn't agree to terms with the school, three sources close to the situation said an agreement was close and could happen today.

After meeting with UNC chancellor James Moeser and athletics director Dick Baddour and touring the campus, the Beamers returned to Blacksburg, Va., on Sunday evening.

However, Beamer's attorney, Craig Kelly of Columbia, S.C., stayed in Chapel Hill to hammer out contractual details. Kelly was spotted leaving the Smith Center, where negotiations took place, later Sunday with UNC general counsel Susan Ehringhaus. Kelly and Baddour haven't returned calls from the media the past week.

Beamer will meet with his Virginia Tech team today, where he is expected to tell players he is leaving for North Carolina, according to sources. An official announcement would come later today or by Tuesday.

However, all three sources referred to the Williams saga as a lesson in caution. Williams, the former North Carolina assistant basketball coach, stunned the university last summer when he turned down the chance to succeed mentors Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge and stayed at Kansas.

A return to Virginia Tech by Beamer would be similarly surprising, all three sources said.

Beamer, who rebuilt once-lowly Virginia Tech into a national power that reached the 1999 national championship game, has been Baddour's first choice since he fired third-year coach Carl Torbush last Monday.

Etiquette called for Baddour to wait for Virginia Tech to finish its regular season before contacting Beamer, and that's what he did by about 10 hours. The Hokies concluded their regular season late Saturday night with a victory against Virginia, and Sunday at 8:30 a.m. Baddour called Virginia Tech athletics director Jim Weaver for permission to call Beamer. Weaver granted it.

Late Sunday night, Weaver said he hadn't spoken with Beamer since that morning, when he called to tell him to expect a call from Baddour. For the past week Weaver has said North Carolina looked to be a serious threat to Virginia Tech for Beamer's services, but on Sunday night he said he would be concerned if a deal was almost in place.

"That would be atypical of Frank Beamer as he does his business," Weaver said. "He normally doesn't accept things on the first visit.

"If it has happened that fast, then North Carolina was obviously working behind the scenes with his attorney. I question that, and I would have a little bit of a concern about that."

North Carolina's offer to Beamer is for more than $1million a year between two and three times Torbush's annual package of about $450,000 with promises to make substantial upgrades in staff salaries.

If Beamer, 54, is going to have a late change of heart and stay at Virginia Tech, he would have personal reasons. He was born in Mount Airy but grew up in Hillsville, Va., less than an hour from Virginia Tech. He played defensive back there in 1966-68, serving as a team captain in '68, and has a daughter attending the school.

 

That's certainly possible, but it could also be that he had a change of heart when he got back to Blacksburg.