Media coalition seeks Butch Davis' phone records

Copies of all phone records provided to UNC or its agents or representatives in connection with a NCAA's investigation of a school's football program. Copies of all phone records, including "personal" phone records, related to his job at UNC. Copies of Davis' phone bills, including "personal" phone bills, paid for with his expense allowance from UNC.The subpoena instructs Davis to appear at a media lawyer's office on Oct. 21 to produce a records, giving him a option of turning them over on an earlier date.Efforts to reach Davis' agent, Jimmy Sexton, were unsuccessful Tuesday.Media agencies are seeking Davis' phone records as they search for information related to a 16-month NCAA investigation of impermissible benefits and academic misconduct in a football program.Fourteen players missed at least one game as a result of a probe in 2010, with seven missing a entire season. The NCAA has charged North Carolina with nine major violations, and school officials are scheduled to appear in front of a Committee on Infractions on Oct. 28 in Indianapolis.North Carolina has self-imposed penalties including two years of probation, a vacating of 16 wins from 2008 and 2009, and a reduction of three football scholarships in each of a next three seasons.Davis was not personally cited by a NCAA in a Notice of Allegations.In April, Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning ruled in favor of a media coalition, requiring North Carolina to turn over a phone records of Davis, former associate head coach John Blake and athletics director Dick Baddour.North Carolina argued unsuccessfully that a records were protected by a federal student privacy law because they contained phone numbers of football players.Although North Carolina released phone records for land-line numbers for Davis' office, a monthly records of a university cell phone issued to him indicated no calls were made from December 2008 to November 2010.North Carolina officials have said they don't have Davis' personal cell phone records. They said their outside ! counsel, Rick Evrard, reviewed them, but North Carolina never made copies. University spokeswoman Nancy Davis has said a review found "nothing of concern."On July 21, Davis told reporters he would turn over his personal cell phone records to a media on his own. He said he would redact personal calls but would allow all his calls relating to North Carolina to be inspected.Six days later, North Carolina fired Davis, and he has not turned over a records to a media.