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A harsh reality: What’s really behind Belichick’s hard pivot to UNC originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
“This is not about control,” Michael Lombardi said last Friday after news broke that Bill Belichick was mulling a move to the University of North Carolina. “I don’t want anybody to misinterpret this.”
That addendum from Lombardi came near the end of a four-plus-minute explanation of why Belichick was all set with the NFL and probably headed to college.
The other four-plus minutes of the explanation? They were spent laying out precisely why this move was indeed about control.
Less than a week later, Belichick sat at a dais in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was unveiled as grand poobah of college football. The greatest coach in NFL history — arguably in the history of American pro sports — will finish his unparalleled career at a mid-tier college program.
Why? Because too many snot-nosed kids wanted to get into his sandbox and play with his trucks. They’ve ruined EVERYTHING!!!
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When ESPN’s Seth Wickersham took a galloping stab at explaining why Belichick is out of the NFL likely forever, one Belichick “confidant” told him Belichick is “disgusted in what he believes the NFL had become.”
Another confidant said, “This is a big f— you to the NFL.”
But it’s not really a “f— you.” Belichick already got that directed at him over the past year.
What Belichick is mustering is this:
“F— me? Yeah? Well f— you, too! And f— your collaboration and your owners and your owner’s offspring and your halfwit executives and your holier-than-thou initiatives and everything else that made the league I joined great 50 years ago when most of you were still crapping your diapers.
“Wallow in the billions I helped make you because of what I — William Stephen Belichick — built and…
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Author : NBC Sports Boston
Publish date : 2024-12-13 16:59:00
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