It is one of the things that I hate about sports. If you have any success, you suddenly expect it every year. And if you don’t get it, everyone wants you to fire the coach.

Immediately after losing to VCU, the stories calling for Davis to be fired started. Tonight, the fans and media got their wish. So lets look at how bad of a coach Davis is.

In five seasons, he went 125-54, won an ACC regular season championship, led them to the NCAA tournament in 4 of the 5 seasons including a NCAA Sweet 16 in 2024 and the NCAA championship game in 2022. He never had a losing record in the ACC, and the year they didn’t go to the tournament was their worst record at 20-13.

This year, they were ranked 11th in the country at 17-4 when they lost leading scoring Caleb Wilson to a bone fracture in his left hand and center Henri Veesaar to a lower back injury. Veesaar would eventually make it back on the court, but Wilson’s season was over, and the Tar Heels stumbled down the stretch.

And then of course, they lose a 19 point lead to VCU and his career at North Carolina is over.

While there are certainly some exceptions, most teams can’t lose a player who averages 19.8 points per game and continue to contend for a national championship. But apparently, that is the expectation at North Carolina.

We complain that Cinderella is dead because of NIL and the transfer portal. But when Cinderella does pull off an upset, that is the point that you fire your coach.

I don’t know the exact number because this was from 2025, but the number of teams that have won more games from 2020-2025 than UNC was 12 (with 3 others tied with them). I will have to do some more research when it isn’t so late – but most schools don’t have the success that Davis had with UNC.

You can say – but North Carolina is different. That might be true. But as I have written in past years, Indiana fired their coach because they weren’t making enough Final Fours. Since that decision, this is now the 8th year out of 10 that Indiana has missed the NCAA Tournament.

The Tar Heels have lots of resources, so maybe they will get a star coach who will take them to the promised land. But they also certainly could fall apart……