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No coach is more accomplished in the game of football than Bill Belichick but even some of his most ardent supporters – and some of his former players – scoffed at the idea recently that he could see him as a college coach.
“Absolutely not,” Julian Edelman said on Fox NFL Sunday.
“No,” Tom Brady said.
“There are a lot of things he can do and obviously he’s tremendous and even showing his personality but getting out there on the recruiting trail and dealing with all these college kids that would be frightening.”
We’re about to find out.
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North Carolina wanted to go younger in its next head coach after Mack Brown – and found Belichick, who is eight months Brown’s junior.
But he’s Belichick – the eight-time Super Bowl champion, six as a head coach, the best football coach of all-time.
The Tar Heels couldn’t say no. But some feel like what’s about to happen in Chapel Hill might be something of a disaster.
“Can you imagine Bill on the couch recruiting an 18-year old?” Edelman quipped.
Brady, acting like Belichick: ‘Do you really want to come here? We don’t really want you anyway but I guess you could come. We’ll figure out if you can play.’
Belichick is a regular on Pat McAfee’s show on ESPN but even McAfee seemed to question the decision to come back to coaching in college football of all places.
“The thought is immediately, why the f*** would Bill Belichick want to go to college football?” McAfee asked.
Even Washington Commanders offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury was asked about the Belichick move recently since Kingsbury is one of the few people to have dipped into the college football and…
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Publish date : 2024-12-13 15:19:00
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