{"id":680917,"date":"2026-03-25T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/680917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:31:12","slug":"unc-coaching-search-seth-greenberg-names-top-candidates-to-replace-hubert-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/680917\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC coaching search: Seth Greenberg names top candidates to replace Hubert Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that UNC <\/strong><\/a>is officially looking for its next head coach after firing Hubert Davis<\/a><\/strong>, ESPN\u2019s Seth Greenberg<\/strong> has some ideas. The former coach likes Billy Donovan<\/strong> to return to college basketball, but it might not be the best option given the current landscape of college basketball.<\/p>\n

There are certain guys in the sport that won\u2019t leave their current spots, per Greenberg. Those include Florida\u2019s Todd Golden<\/a><\/strong> and Alabama\u2019s Nate Oats.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But there are some other Power Four coaches that could be enticed to make the jump to a Blue Blood. Greenberg had some ideas for UNC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, Billy Donovan, makes sense,\u201d Greenberg said on Get Up.<\/a> \u201cWhomever they hire, they got to give him the infrastructure. They got to give them 12 to $14 million in rev share. They got to give him all the resources that they need in terms of coaching staff, general manager and support staff. But I think Billy Donovan maybe, with everything that\u2019s going on in Chicago, they better hire someone to understand the business of college basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very different to the business of the NBA \u2026 to me, Mark Byington<\/a><\/strong> is going to end up being mentioned, TJ Otzelberger<\/a><\/strong> and how hard their teams play, how competitive they are. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to move a Todd Golden, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to move a Nate Oats. I think that\u2019s the one thing people realize. (Kentucky) tried to replace John Calipari<\/a><\/strong>, they settled on Mark Pope<\/a><\/strong>. Think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Greenberg had his choice, it would likely come down to Byington of Vanderbilt<\/strong><\/a> and Otzelberger of Iowa State<\/strong><\/a>. Donovan hasn\u2019t coached college basketball since 2015, but did lead Florida to two national titles, something UNC is looking to claim in this next era.<\/p>\n

During his five seasons at the helm of North Carolina, Davis amassed a 125-54 record. After Davis took over for Roy Williams<\/strong> \u2013 for whom he served as an assistant coach from 2011-21 \u2013 he led the program to a memorable run to the national championship. UNC not only defeated Duke<\/strong><\/a> in Mike Krzyzewski\u2019s<\/strong> final home game but took down the Blue Devils in the Final Four. That was Krzyzewski\u2019s final game before retirement.<\/p>\n

However, the Tar Heels missed the NCAA Tournament entirely in 2023 and declined an NIT invitation. They then went 2023-24 to go 29-8 overall and win the ACC regular-season title en route to a Sweet Sixteen appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that UNC is officially looking for its next head coach after firing Hubert Davis, ESPN\u2019s Seth Greenberg…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":680918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,100690,286286,1317,1315,1316,62,286287,286288,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-680917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-mark-byington","tag-nate-oats-93-maranatha-academy","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-t-j-otzelberger-96-st-thomas-more","tag-todd-golden-03-sunnyslope","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116290301970082818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}