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If Bill Belichick really wants the North Carolina job, the Tar Heels should roll out the Carolina blue carpet, usher him to the private plane and make him perfectly comfortable in Mack Brown’s old office.
The man has won eight Super Bowls, six as a head coach. He’s the greatest coach of all time. He is a Hall of Famer in every sense of the word and something of a football savant.
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Everyone else in the UNC coaching search – if they’re smart – has studied Belichick, tried to emulate him in numerous ways, tried to learn from him, tried to model their own careers after his.
Let me say this again: Belichick has won six Super Bowls as a head coach. Vince Lombardi has two. Andy Reid, Bill Walsh and Joe Gibbs have three. Chuck Noll has four.
If Belichick wants the job, you hire him and immediately start raising money for the collective.
But hiring Belichick does come with some questions – mainly, does Belichick grasp today’s world of college football in the slightest, and not just from hanging around the Washington program and talking to his son, Steve, who’s the Huskies’ defensive coordinator?
Belichick dealt with free agency issues all the time in the NFL but he also had structure above him to handle a lot of those issues – and not just a general manager but a whole team of executives to crunch the numbers. No NFL player’s “trainer” and “mentor” ever felt like they had carte blanche to call or text Belichick at all hours – usually to ask for something.
If the new model of college football is more like the NFL, Belichick might have something of a grasp of the NIL world but almost every college…
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Publish date : 2024-12-05 22:11:00
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