Butch Davis
Davis at the 2007 ACC Football Kickoff
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | FIU |
| Conference | C-USA |
| Record | 0–0 |
| Annual salary | $1 million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 17, 1951 Tahlequah, Oklahoma |
| Playing career | |
| 1970 | Arkansas |
| Position(s) | Defensive end |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1973 | Fayetteville HS (AR) (DC) |
| 1974–1975 | Pawhuska HS (OK) (DC) |
| 1976–1977 | Charles Page HS (OK) (DC) |
| 1978 | Will Rogers HS (OK) |
| 1979–1983 | Oklahoma State (TE/WR) |
| 1984–1988 | Miami (FL) (DL) |
| 1989–1992 | Dallas Cowboys (DL) |
| 1993–1994 | Dallas Cowboys (DC) |
| 1995–2000 | Miami (FL) |
| 2001–2004 | Cleveland Browns |
| 2007–2010 | North Carolina |
| 2017–present | FIU |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2002–2004 | Cleveland Browns (GM) |
| 2012–2013 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers (adviser) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 63–43 (college) 24–35 (NFL) |
| Bowls | 5–2 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 Big East (1995–1996, 2000) | |
Paul Hilton "Butch" Davis, Jr. (born November 17, 1951) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at Florida International University. After graduating from the University of Arkansas, he became an assistant college football coach at Oklahoma State University and the University of Miami before becoming the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He 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. Davis served as the head coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Tar Heels football team from 2007 until the summer of 2011, when a series of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigations resulted in his dismissal. He was hired by the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an adviser in February 2012.
Davis was born on November 17, 1951 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to Paul and Pat Davis. He 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. After graduation, he attended the University of Arkansas and played defensive end for the Razorbacks. Due to a knee injury, Davis was sidelined after his freshman year and became a student assistant for the rest of his college career. After graduation from college, he held assistant coaching positions at several high schools, including Fayetteville High School in 1973, Pawhuska High School from 1974 to 1975, and Charles Page High School in Sand Springs, Oklahoma from 1976 to 1977. He held his first head coaching job at Will Rogers High School in 1978.
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