Bill Belichick coaches in college football, but it appears he won’t be a regular in one college football tradition: The coach’s weekly radio show. North Carolina announced Thursday that Belichick will be on the first episode of the Tar Heels’ weekly radio show on Aug. 27 at Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery, but general manager Michael Lombardi will …
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Jordon Hudson didn’t appreciate Mary Kay Cabot’s joke about Bill Belichick
Nearly three months after Jordon Hudson took the football world by storm, by reportedly storming out of a CBS interview — and by directing North Carolina coach Bill Belichick to not respond to the simple question of how they met — Hudson had largely faded into the background of Belichick’s looming debut as the head coach of the North Carolina …
Read More »UNC to SEC realignment isn’t happening anytime soon. With or without Belichick, the Tar Heels have hurdles to clear
A lot of folks have been talking about the North Carolina Tar Heels lately, and not just because of the media circus that Bill Belichick drew when he arrived at a Hilton hotel in Charlotte last week for the ACC’s football media days. There were a handful of stories published last week about the Tar Heels and the one that …
Read More »Fanfare follows Bill Belichick at ACC media days, but UNC’s coach handles it his way
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The day was almost done. Bill Belichick had finished tackling 26 minutes of questions from a room of 70 reporters and 22 cameras. He stopped to grab some ESPN-branded boxes of popcorn at a booth in the hallway. There was a problem, though. “You got one that’s not empty?” he asked with a laugh. The booth attendant …
Read More »Bill Belichick: North Carolina is a pro program, we have an NFL approach in college
North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick says he’s coaching his college football team like he coached in the NFL. Asked at the ACC media day if he’s trying to introduce NFL-level schemes and concepts to college football, Belichick answered, “That’s exactly what we’re trying to do. That’s my philosophy.” Belichick said he views the Tar Heels like a pro team …
Read More »Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft continue to be at odds
The recent comments from Patriots owner Robert Kraft regarding former Patriots coach Bill Belichick seemed to suggest a thawing of the frozen-shoulder relationship that has emerged between them. Belichick didn’t see it that way. He apparently viewed Kraft’s remarks about the hiring of Belichick being the best move Kraft has made as a slight, a diss. A backhanded compliment. Which …
Read More »With petty remarks, Bill Belichick again stokes feud with Patriots owner Robert Kraft
Eighteen months ago, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick stood beside each other at a podium inside Gillette Stadium on a cold January day and announced their divorce. It was a mutual decision, they insisted, one made through handshakes and fistfuls of cash as the team Belichick oversaw so successfully for so long crumbled into one …
Read More »Bill Belichick fires back at Robert Kraft in ‘big risk’ spat
It appears there hasn’t been any thawing in the relationship between Bill Belichick and Patriots owner Robert Kraft. In a highly unusual move, Belichick has responded to comments Kraft made last month in which the owner said he took a “big risk” by giving up a first-round pick to steal Belichick away from the Jets in 2000. “As I told …
Read More »Bill Belichick Responds to Robert Kraft, Says Taking Patriots Job Was a ‘Big Risk’
The back and forth between New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick continued this week with the legendary head coach responding to comments from his former boss. In a statement to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr., Belichick said he took a “big risk” by taking the Patriots job when he was hired in 2000. “As I told Robert …
Read More »Bill Belichick: I took big risk joining the Patriots
Patriots owner Robert Kraft said in a recent interview that the best move he’s made since buying the team was the trade that made Bill Belichick the team’s head coach in 1999, but another one of his comments caught Belichick’s attention. Kraft said he was “hammered” in the local media for the move and termed it a “big risk” because …
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