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It sucks to get old. Joints ache. Sickness lingers. Vision gets clouded.
For those of us not considered the greatest coach of all time, getting old sucks in a different way. Just like the body breaking down, a winning percentage only endures for so long, too. The energy, preparation and runway needed to keep winning is limited.
Everything has a shelf life — except the 72-year-old Bill Belichick, it seems.
The ultimate basketball school, North Carolina, just made one of the ultimate sports power moves of all time. It landed arguably North America’s greatest-ever coach of a team sport to guide a middle-of-the-road ACC football program.
Red Auerbach may want to have a word or two about that above designation, but, ah, that’s just basketball.
The home of MJ, Dean, Ol’ Roy and countless hoops All-Americans just admitted the obvious down on Tobacco Road: Football is king. And Bill Belichick is the king of football.
It still feels like that pinch-me moment where you can’t believe it’s true. There has to be something more that we’re missing. Sure, it’s obvious Belichick may be laying the groundwork for his son Steve to succeed him. Sure, Carolina might be a jump stop for Belichick before another run at the NFL and the victories record.
The Tar Heels go in with their eyes wide open — in shock, probably, that it actually worked. A sedate campus with an honored ACC pedigree just bought into a ruthless genius. And ruthless wins these days as college sports makes the clunky transition from some sort of amateur model to one that looks a lot like the NFL.
Who better to lead us there than Belichick, even if it’s the septuagenarian version of The Hoodie? However it ends up, the hire changed the school, the program and maybe college sports.
But…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2024-12-12 17:36:00
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