{"id":544526,"date":"2026-03-25T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544526\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:51:08","slug":"unc-coaching-search-seth-greenberg-names-top-candidates-to-replace-hubert-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544526\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC coaching search: Seth Greenberg names top candidates to replace Hubert Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that UNC <\/a>is officially looking for its next head coach after firing Hubert Davis<\/a>, ESPN\u2019s Seth Greenberg has some ideas. The former coach likes Billy Donovan 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> and Alabama\u2019s Nate Oats.<\/a><\/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> is going to end up being mentioned, TJ Otzelberger<\/a> 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>, they settled on Mark Pope<\/a>. Think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Greenberg had his choice, it would likely come down to Byington of Vanderbilt<\/a> and Otzelberger of Iowa State<\/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 \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<\/a> in Mike Krzyzewski\u2019s 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":2,"featured_media":544527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,243105,243106,398,396,397,99,243107,243108],"class_list":["post-544526","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}