Davis earned a 51–20 record during his tenure as head coach. As a result, the Hurricanes were barred from postseason play in his first year (despite an 8–3 record) and lost 31 football scholarship spots over several years. Not long after Davis' arrival, the Hurricanes were found to have committed several violations of NCAA rules during the tenure of his predecessor, Dennis Erickson. After Johnson left, Davis continued at Dallas for one more year as assistant coach under Barry Switzer.ĭavis was hired as the head football coach at the University of Miami in January 1995. As defensive coordinator and coach of the defensive line, he helped Johnson and new owner Jerry Jones win back-to-back Super Bowls with a Dallas Cowboys team that had gone 1–15 in 1989, Johnson's first year as head coach. During that time, the 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team won the NCAA Division I-A national football championship.Ĭoaching career Dallas Cowboys ĭavis followed Jimmy Johnson to Dallas, where Davis was promoted to defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys in 1993 after the departure of Dave Wannstedt.
In 1979, Butch 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. He held his first head coaching job at Will Rogers High School in 1978. 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. 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, he attended the University of Arkansas and played defensive end for the Razorbacks. 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. Early years ĭavis was born on November 17, 1951, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to Paul and Pat Davis. Shortly before his contract expired, he accused the FIU administration of intentionally undermining the football program.
Davis had an acrimonious exit from the position in 2021. He led the team to three consecutive bowl games from 2017 to 2019. He was hired by the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an advisor in February 2012.ĭavis returned to head coaching duties in 2017 when he assumed the role with Florida International University.
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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 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. 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 most recently the head football coach at Florida International University. (born November 17, 1951) is an American football coach.
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