Bill Friday News & Bio

Name: Bill Friday Hometown: Dallas, NC High School: Dallas Born: July 13, 1920 Died: October 12, 2012 Notes: UNC System President

Why Bill Friday Calls College Football ‘Manipulated’
After serving as UNC System president for 30 years and having a building on campus named after him, Bill Friday is one of UNC's biggest...
Tue Sep 21, 2010

Time to officially welcome back the UNC, NCSU football programs
The first season of re-energized football at UNC and NC State is complete. And it was a success, albeit a qualified one. Butch Davis and...
Fri Nov 30, 2007

UNC criticized for Butch Davis' pay raise
Former UNC system President Bill Friday criticized a college athletics "arms race" Friday, two days after UNC-Chapel Hill announced a $291,000 raise for football coach...
Sat Nov 24, 2007

Roberts: Are coaches salaries out of control?
Bill Friday quoted the chairman of the UNC Board of Trustees who limply said the university must employ the best coach it can because "the...
Fri Dec 8, 2006

Former UNC President, Others Criticize High Coaching Salaries
When former NFL coach Butch Davis was introduced as the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina earlier this week, his $1.7...
Tue Dec 5, 2006

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