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Bill Belichick Needed a Crash Course in College Football. He Got It by Studying a 6-Win Team.  The Wall Street Journal Source link

It’s been pretty much the exact opposite of sunshine and rainbows ever since Bill Belichick and the Patriots parted ways two January’s ago. New England endured yet another 4-12 season, is onto their second head coach in two years, and enters 2025—even after a free agency spending spree—with a bottom-tier roster in the NFL. Belichick, meanwhile, failed to land a …

There are very real differences between college football and NFL football. As North Carolina coach Bill Belichick is experiencing during his first college training camp, after 50 years in pro football. “We’ve done a lot more live work here than than we ever did in the NFL, at any team I was ever on,” Belichick told reporters on Wednesday. “So …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …