I had to check to make sure it wasn’t April Fools’ Day. Drew Davis, son of embattled and fired UNC football coach Butch Davis, is going to walk on to play for the Tar Heels. Davis had planned to play for his father at UNC and decided to go through with playing in Chapel Hill anyway.

Davis asked his parents if it were ok before enrolling in summer school classes. “I think he was concerned about how we’d feel,” his mother Tammy Davis said. “But we just kept reiterating that it was his decision.” Butch Davis added, “He wanted us all to be OK with it.”

He went on to say, “As much as anything else, you want what’s best for your child. This is what he wishes to do, and we’re going to support him.”

The younger Davis set several state passing records and was listed as a three-star recruit by Scout.com but he wasn’t highly recruited, in part because it was assumed he would play for his dad at Carolina.

To make the story even stranger, the younger Davis is friends with UNC starter Bryn Renner, whose father was Davis’ coach at East Chapel Hill High.

Heels new coach Larry Fedora is obviously on board but I find it hard to believe most UNC officials are happy about Davis being on the Carolina team – it will only make people harken back to a time they’d just as soon forget and, if by some chance, Davis does get a chance to play, you can bet Butch Davis will be back to watch his son play.

It’s all rather surreal but you gotta respect the younger Davis for sticking to his dream of playing for the Tar Heels.