Jones & Keefe: Making sense of Bill Belichick interviewing with UNC

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00:00for him to be interviewing with college teams

00:04implies to me that he may not think there's a whole ton of interest in the NFL with any of these teams.

00:11That's sort of what that signals to me.

00:13Unless he plans on taking a million interviews or any interview that he gets,

00:16which for all intents and purposes, I mean, that may be something that he's going to do anyway.

00:21But I don't necessarily consider this like Chip Kelly going to UCLA and then springboarding that back into the NFL.

00:29He's 72 years old. You're not going stepping stone jobs here.

00:33I think that if he knew he had something lined up or if he had a good idea about something lined up in the NFL,

00:38why would he even bother taking this interview?

00:40Yeah, I don't get this at all. It makes no sense to me.

00:43You're not breaking the record at UNC?

00:45No. Snarkily, it's like, hey, UNC wanted to get younger on the sideline.

00:48He's one year younger than Mack Brown.

00:52And I've seen people, because sometimes the speculation on weird interviews is like,

00:57oh, it's just the interview. He wants to brush up on his interviewing skills.

01:00But I can't even imagine that in this landscape of NIL and all that crap,

01:06that a college interview is anything like the NFL.

01:10Right.

01:11Recruiting and everything that goes into it is just so foreign to him, first of all, who's never coached in college.

01:18He was supposed to coach in college before he started his NFL career, and he didn't.

01:22He turned the job down.

01:23He was supposed to be an assistant for maybe a Lou Holtz tie in or something.

01:26OK.

01:27But he ended up going to the Colts and obviously a pro career did quite well after that.

01:31Yeah, he did OK.

01:32I don't know what he would get. I just Googled Bubba Cunningham is the athletic director.

01:38I wanted to see if there was some. Did he go to school with Bill? Is there some like tie in there?

01:44You love an athletic director named Bubba, don't you?

01:46I mean, his first name is Lawrence, just to be clear.

01:47No, no, no. It's Bubba.

01:48OK. Bubba. It does say at the top of his page, though, Bubba Cunningham.

01:51Bubba Cunningham.

01:53I don't see an obvious tie in there to Bill or that would make sense.

01:57I can't. I even asked you during the break.

02:01You said Belichick's interviewing in North Carolina.

02:03I go, Bill. Yeah, because Steve, I mean, it's only one year, but he's a defensive coordinator in college.

02:09He has pro background.

02:10I don't think it would be the craziest thing to say Steve Belichick was interviewing in North Carolina.

02:14I think that's much less crazy than Bill Belichick.

02:17Agreed. Because most people think the only reason Bill wants to coach is to get the win.