Bubba Cunningham and Steve Newmark join to discuss the leadership change in Men's Basketball
Carolina Insider
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4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Carolina made a change in leadership for the Men's Basketball program...Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham and Executive Associate AD Steve Newmark join.
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| 0:00.0 | The Carolina Insider is presented by Give UNC, a place like no other, a day like no other. |
| 0:13.6 | We're back. |
| 0:14.5 | Time for another edition of the Carolina Insider Jones and Adam here with you and a special edition of the show. Obviously, some big news around Carolina |
| 0:23.9 | athletics as Carolina announced a leadership change in men's basketball. And to help us talk about |
| 0:30.2 | that is the director of athletics, of course, Bubba Cunningham, an executive associate |
| 0:34.4 | athletic director, Steve Newmark. Guys, thank you all both for joining us. |
| 0:38.7 | I know this has been a difficult decision and a difficult day. |
| 0:42.2 | Bubba, I'll start with you. |
| 0:44.3 | Kind of take us through what got us to this point on Tuesday evening. |
| 0:49.4 | Great. Thanks, Jones. |
| 0:50.5 | And, you know, I get to come in here quite a bit. |
| 0:53.8 | And 99% of the time, I say, |
| 0:56.2 | being the AD of Carolina is a great job. Today was a really tough day to be the AD of Carolina. |
| 1:01.8 | There's not a person I've ever encountered that knows Hubert Davis that doesn't just say, |
| 1:07.5 | what a wonderful human being. And to having worked here now, I've been here 15 years, |
| 1:12.9 | he's been here 14. And to see him as an assistant coach, as an head coach, and to have the |
| 1:17.6 | responsibility to make a decision about the future of the basketball program, you know, you |
| 1:23.5 | just don't take that lightly. And I give him a ton of credit for the way he's led our program, the way he's represented |
| 1:30.2 | the university, his integrity, his character, his family. |
| 1:34.2 | Everything about the way he goes about his life has been inspirational to me and I think |
| 1:40.2 | to the university community. |
| 1:42.0 | But it was a very, very difficult decision, but it was one that ultimately I thought had to be made. |
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