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Curran: ‘Better than 50/50′ chance that Belichick takes UNC job originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Bill Belichick’s coaching future has been a subject of debate and discussion ever since he and the New England Patriots parted ways back in January.
No one would be surprised if Belichick is coaching somewhere in 2025. However, few could have predicted when he left the Patriots that his next job might be in college football and not the NFL.
Belichick, 72, reportedly interviewed for the vacant University of North Carolina head football coach job last week. He confirmed Monday on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show that he’s talked to the UNC chancellor about the position. Belichick also said that if he got the job, he’d run it like an NFL program.
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What should we make of this situation? What are the chances he actually takes the UNC job? Our Patriots insider Tom E. Curran weighed in during Monday’s edition of NBC Sports Boston show Arbella Early Edition.
“He went through a job cycle last year in which he didn’t get an offer and he got one interview. And whether he rebuffed the other opportunities or not, the fact that Mike Lombardi, his close confidant, said that Bill understands that the layers at the professional level are such at the executive level that you can never really run your own show, and I wonder if Atlanta was an indicator of that,” Curran said.
“He had a free run to get that job and then was (crossed) off once it got kicked upstairs and people started saying, ‘I don’t know if we wanna do this.’
“I think the likelihood if he is being pragmatic, which I think he always is, are probably — I would say better than 50/50. If he’s being realistic, he is not going to get a job offer that in two years in the NFL is going to land him Shula’s record, which I always thought was a little overrated. People say,…
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Publish date : 2024-12-10 17:39:00
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