BUTCH DAVIS TO THE SEC? NOT ACCORDING TO HIS AGENT

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Everyone knows full well that Phillip Fulmer and Tommy Tuberville are in trouble at their respective schools.  And when fans start to speculate about who the new coach will be, it’s usually hard to get them back onboard with the current guy.

But if fans in the Smokies or on The Plains are speculating about Butch Davis, they should know that his agent, Jimmy Sexton, thinks he’s quite happy where he is.

“I think Butch Davis will be at North Carolina for a long time.  I don’t know that.  He’ll have to make that decision.  I do think that’s a place you can win at, and the ACC isn’t nearly as hard, at least right now, as the SEC.”

It should be noted, that as Davis’ agent, it’s in Sexton’s best interest to drive up his client’s bargaining position.  “He’s happy, you’re really gonna have to pay him to get him out of there.”

That said, Sexton believes the SEC is such a bear of a conference that many coaches “look at it as, ‘Why do I want to go do that?  If my school will play me an SEC-type salary in another conference, I might be able to stay here forever.”

Might be true.  But again, I think this is agent-ism.

How many college coaches try to prove their skill set in the NFL?  They know it’s a beast, but they still go.  To prove they’re the best of the best.

Now, let’s look around the SEC: Nick Saban, Bobby Petrino, Urban Meyer, Rich Brooks, Les Miles are just some of the “name” coaches who’ve come into the league in the last few years.

They didn’t seem too scared did they?

But according to Sexton, “every coach in the country right now wants Clemson.  All of them.  Because they fell like it’s a quote ‘SEC’ job.  Eighty-something thousand people.  Close to Georgia, in South Carolina, great recruiting base.  But you play in a conference that isn’t the SEC.”

“A lot of coaches are starting to look at the SEC and say this might not be the best time to go there.”

Again, as the man who represents Will Muschamp and Lane Kiffin (to name two), is behooves Sexton to make SEC schools believe no one wants to come there.  “You folks are really going to have to pay through the nose to get someone in there.”

Sorry.  I don’t buy it.