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00:00Moments ago, news breaking on Twitter, that Bill Belichick has interviewed for a head

00:08coaching job.

00:10Not with the NFL, no, no, no.

00:14Not the Saints?

00:15Not with the Saints?

00:16Jets?

00:17Or?

00:18Not the Jets.

00:19Whoever the hell else is available.

00:20Chicago?

00:21Yeah, the Bears, Bears.

00:22Jaguars.

00:23Jaguars.

00:24Well, the Jaguars.

00:25They still have a coach.

00:26Poor Doug Peterson's body's not cold yet.

00:27They haven't fired him yet.

00:28But there are some teams that are looking.

00:29Now they have interim head coaches, and they're looking for a solution there.

00:34Belichick is not interviewing with any of them.

00:35He is interviewing with the University of North Carolina.

00:38Ooh, Tar Heels, baby.

00:40This now, it was an early report.

00:42It's now all over the place.

00:44As Inside Carolina, who I'm not familiar with, it looks like a 24-7, you know, 24-7 sports.

00:50It's one of their North Carolina blogs.

00:52But here it is.

00:53Six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick interviewed for the head coaching vacancy

00:56at North Carolina this week.

00:58He's among a group of candidates that Tar Heels have spoken with since firing Mack Brown

01:02back on November 26th.

01:03That is a list that includes Tulane head coach John Summerall, Georgia defensive coordinator

01:08Glenn Schumann, among others.

01:10The initial report, Sunday, the initial contact between Belichick and UNC officials.

01:15That when it first came out.

01:16Adam Schefter reported in September that Belichick was eyeing a return to coaching in 2025, but

01:21is expected to be choosy if and when he returns to the sideline.

01:25Schefter reported that Belichick turned down offers from the Niners and Rams to fill the

01:28defensive coordinator vacancies in a decorated assistant role.

01:32The report from Inside Carolina is the first official known interest between Belichick

01:36and a college football program.

01:39Now, I don't know exactly how it works when there's an NFL team that's fired their head

01:45coach, what the interview process is like, how that kind of goes in season, if they've

01:48named an interim coach.

01:50If they have to be sneaky about it, I don't know.

01:51I don't know the rules there.

01:53And I maybe should have looked into that before I started talking about it.

01:56But I will say this, for him to be interviewing with college teams implies to me that he may

02:04not think there's a whole ton of interest in the NFL with any of these teams.

02:08That's sort of what that signals to me, unless he plans on taking a million interviews or

02:12any interview that he gets, which for all intents and purposes, I mean, that may be

02:16something that he's going to do anyway.

02:18But I don't necessarily consider this like Chip Kelly going to UCLA and then springboarding

02:25that back into the NFL.

02:26You know, like he's 72 years old.

02:28You're not you're not going stepping stone jobs here.

02:30I think that if he knew he had something lined up or if he had a good idea about something

02:34lined up in the NFL, why would he even bother taking this interview?

02:37Yeah, I don't get this at all.

02:38It's weird, right?

02:39No sense to me.

02:40You're not breaking the record.

02:41UNC knew snarkily.

02:42It's like a UNC wanted to get younger on the sidelines one year younger than Mac Brown.

02:48I don't.

02:49And I've seen people because sometimes these the speculation on weird interviews is like,

02:54oh, it's just the interview.

02:55He wants to, like, brush up on his interviewing skills.

02:57But I don't even can't even imagine that in this landscape of NIL and all that crap that

03:03a college interview is anything like the NFL.

03:07Right.

03:08Right.

03:09Like, I don't need recruiting.

03:10And everything that goes into it is just so foreign to him, first of all, who's never

03:14coached in college.

03:16He was supposed to coach in college before he started his NFL career, and he didn't.

03:19He turned the job down.

03:20I think he was supposed to be an assistant for maybe a Lou Holtz tie in or something.

03:24But he ended up going to the Colts and obviously a pro career did quite well after that.

03:28Yeah, he did.

03:29OK.

03:30I don't.

03:31I don't know what he would get.

03:32I just Googled Bubba Cunningham is the athletic director.

03:36I wanted to see if there was some.

03:38Did he go to school with Bill?

03:39Is there some like tie in there?

03:41You love an athletic director named Bubba, don't you?

03:43Well, I mean, his first name is Lawrence.

03:44Just because I don't know.

03:46OK, but it does say at the top of his page, though, Bubba Cunningham.

03:50I don't see an obvious tie in there to Bill or that would make sense.

03:55I can't.

03:56I even asked you during the break, you said Belichick's interviewing in North Carolina.

04:00I go, Bill.

04:01Yeah, because Steve, I mean, it's only one year, but he's a defensive coordinator in

04:05college.

04:06He has pro background.

04:07I don't think it would be the craziest thing to say Steve Belichick was interviewing in

04:10North Carolina.

04:11I think that's much less crazy than Bill Belichick.

04:14Right.

04:15Because most people think the only reason Bill wants to coach is to get the wins.

04:18I heard Bill O'Brien say it this morning on the Greg Hill Show.

04:21He's 14 wins away or whatever.

04:22Now, Bill O'Brien puts more stock in that record than I do because I don't think anybody

04:26on the planet knows who the all time wins leader really is and what the number is and

04:30all of that crap.

04:32I can't.

04:34Can you formulate a logical explanation as to why this makes sense for either side?

04:39Yes.

04:40Here's my here's my explanation.

04:41Bill Belichick decided, you know what?

04:43I really like the idea of 18 to 23 year olds getting paid millions of dollars.

04:48And I want to be a part of that.

04:49I want to coach these kids, these teenagers who are getting fabulously wealthy in college

04:54and just telling the doing whatever they want all the time, driving around campus with,

04:58you know, girls flying out of the car like that.

05:01That's what I want.

05:02I like that.

05:03I want to be a part of that.

05:04That seems like something that me, 72 year old Bill Belichick, an environment that I

05:08thrive in.

05:09And see, I thought I was going to give you a heart.

05:10I thought you were going in a different direction, about 18 to 24 year olds.

05:13Well, that too.

05:14I thought you were going to break up something else.

05:16I was.

05:17I can't even think of that.

05:18I just bet he would.

05:19You know what I mean?

05:20Like in the NIL era, Bill Belichick, how's that going to work?

05:23He's going to get treated the way he treated players like he used to cut ties with players

05:26just willy nilly.

05:27Now the players can do it to him.

05:28They can go there for one year, trailer in, out.

05:31Oh, wait, you're not going to give me a million more next year.

05:33I had five touchdowns this year.

05:35I'm out of here.

05:36It makes no sense to me on any level.

05:39We did have a snarky, like, Hey, maybe his girlfriend's doing grad school there or something.

05:42And they just want to be close.

05:44But if you're North Carolina, what's the most, it's the same argument with the pros.

05:48We say he might be with a team for two or three years.

05:49Right.

05:50What does North Carolina get out of Bill Belichick for two or three years?

05:52Good question.

05:53I have no idea.

05:54I don't even, this is weird.

05:56It is weird.

05:57Dan, you have a theory?

05:58To me, this came off as a, as a mediocre to subpar PR play for him and whoever's representation

06:04is.

06:05Oh, it's the middle of this earth.

06:06By the end of December, before the NFL coaching cycle begins, Bill's already getting interest.

06:10He's already getting interviews.

06:12So when NFL teams have their vacancies, well, he's already back up for at least one job.

06:16So why shouldn't we interview him for ours?

06:18I'm not saying it's a good one.

06:19I'm just saying that's how I perceive it.

06:21And there could be some truth to that.

06:23I think Schefter has done his best to really promote Bill Belichick.

06:26He's going to have a bunch of jobs to pick from.

06:29And he's on every media outlet you can find at this point, trying to give his opinion

06:33and continue having his name in the headlines.

06:36So the logic on that end is Bill Belichick's inner circle is concerned that there aren't

06:41going to be jobs available, that it could be something like last year where there's

06:46maybe one that's interested, but even they're not all in.

06:51That is the best argument I've heard.

06:52Like get your name out there, pretend people, you're a hot commodity, like, and now he'll

06:57pull his name out of consideration.

06:59That's what you do here.

07:00Bill Belichick has removed his name from consideration for the North Carolina job in hopes of pursuing

07:04an NFL job when the hiring cycle begins in January, which he could have just not taken

07:08the interview to begin with.

07:09If he really felt that way, he should go there.

07:11Who?

07:12Who doesn't want to go to college?

07:13I don't think.

07:14But my guy, Josh McDaniels, he could go to North Carolina.

07:16You put a baby blue visor on that head, send him out recruiting.

07:19What are you laughing at?

07:21It's funny.

07:22You go right to the visor.

07:23He's a visor guy.

07:24I know.

07:25It's just a baby blue.

07:26And those baby blues are nice.

07:28That's from one visor guy to another right there.

07:30He could sell people on coming to North Carolina.

07:33He could massage the boosters and all that and the NIL.

07:37He could work that game if he wanted to.

07:39Bill Belichick, the curmudgeon, the Grinch.

07:41It's that time of year.

07:42Pull out there on the recruiting trail.

07:44What are we doing?

07:45I have no idea.

07:46Is he going to bring in Nick Saban as his D coordinator like now that would actually

07:51be kind of cool.

07:52Yeah.

07:53You know what?

07:54You got me thinking.

07:55I mean, the old men got together at North Carolina.

07:56Those guys bopping around the country interviewing all the top prospects trying to get them down

07:59to Chapel Hill.

08:00Doesn't this kind of make sense for North Carolina to though?

08:02Think about where we're talking about it here in Boston, that that job's open.

08:05Maybe, maybe it reflects as a better job opening for them as well.

08:09Maybe or flip the script.

08:12You get people thinking about Bill Belichick and then you hire one of those people I've

08:14never heard of that you listed as also being candidates in there.

08:17Yeah.

08:18And then there's disappointment.

08:19It's good point.

08:20I thought you guys were interviewing Bill Belichick.

08:21Who's the D coordinator from Tulane?

08:22I've never heard of it.

08:23Yeah.

08:24It's a good point.

08:25617-779-7937 is the phone number.

08:27Bill Walsh could be heating up here as a UNC doing a, doing an interview there.

08:32Not in the NFL.

08:33It'd be interesting if he finishes his career, not in the NFL.

08:38You know that there was like a rumor might be even strong to describe it this way.

08:43There was an undercurrent of social media speculate speculation, something that people

08:50were trying to say UMass Amherst, like last week that UMass Amherst and Bill, like there

08:54was some connection.

08:55Now, obviously it didn't come to fruition.

08:56They hired some guy I've never heard of, but, um, maybe we need to expand Bill Walsh

09:01to the sideline with that maroon visor on that head.

09:04Oh baby.

09:05Oh, imagine him out there.

09:07It'd be something.

09:08It'd definitely be something.

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