CHAPEL HILL -- CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina football coach Butch Davis said he expects "to be the head football coach here currently, and in the future."
Asked Thursday if it was in the best interest of the school for him to resign, he said, "no."
Blake received multiple payments, a personal loan of $45,000 and a credit card issued by Wichard's company, according to a Yahoo! Sports report. Blake resigned from his position as UNC's associate head coach and recruiting coordinator on Sept. 5.
Davis said he did not know that Blake was reportedly taking money from Wichard.
"I mean clearly, as the head football coach, you'd like to think you would know. But the answer to your question is, I did not know."
Asked what he'd like to say to people who think he should resign, he said: "I'd like for them to understand that we're doing everything we can to [be]a class program, to win football games the right way, to graduate players, and that we're going to do better. Anything that I can do, I'm absolutely willing to take a look at our program … and anything we need to do, whether it be from an academic standpoint, looking into the backgrounds of coaches, we're going to do that. In retrospect of that, looking back on, because people have drawn the assumption that because Coach Blake worked outside of college football, clearly that's something in the future we definitely wouldn't go down that alley again."
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