Bill Belichick confirms that he’s talked to UNC, discusses his vision of a college football program

Will Bill Belichick be the next head football coach at North Carolina? (Bill Streicher/Reuters)

Bill Belichick did not want to get into details.

But he confirmed on Monday that he’s talked to North Carolina about its head football coaching vacancy. And he discussed what his vision of a college football program would look like if he did take a college coaching job — at UNC or elsewhere.

Belichick made these revelations on “The Pat McAfee Show” amid multiple reports that he’d been in talks with North Carolina, including one from his ESPN colleague Adam Schefter that he met with UNC chancellor Lee Roberts for five hours on Sunday.

“I’ve had an opportunity to talk to Chancellor Roberts, and we’ve had a couple of good conversations,” Belichick told McAfee. “So, we’ll see how it goes.”

McAfee then pressed Belichick and asked about the report of his Sunday meeting with Roberts. Belichick declined to offer further details.

“Let’s just leave it at that,” Belichick said “I don’t want to give out too much information.”

So does Belichick really want to coach in college?

Belichick was more than happy to talk about the state of college football, further addressing one of the biggest questions around his talks with UNC. Does Belichick — who most recently spent 24 seasons overseeing the six-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots dynasty — really want to deal with the headaches of college coaching?

Is he interested in navigating the shifting transfer portal and NIL landscape that’s coincided with the retirement of college coaching titans, including Nick Saban, Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams? The answer appears to be a resounding yes.

Belichick went on to discuss how the modern college landscape of team building mirrors that of the salary-capped NFL structure that he’s quite familiar with.

“I think there are a lot of football programs that are being structured similar to NFL programs,” Belichick said. “In college, you now have high school recruiting but you have…

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Publish date : 2024-12-09 22:31:00

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