Michael Lombardi Joins Bill Belichick at UNC as Next GM

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00:00It was Bill Belichick issuing out his organizational Bible 400 pages of what he

00:09needed what was a necessity for him to consider actually being the head

00:14football coach at North Carolina and UNC's Board of Trustees and the guys

00:19responsible for making this decision gave him everything that he needed. His

00:25old pal from their days together in New England, Michael Lombardi, will act as

00:31his general manager. Steve Belichick, his son, more than likely going to help him

00:36fill out his staff as well. The younger Belichick is currently working as the

00:41defensive coordinator at Washington where he has spent this past season

00:45under Jed Fish. Donny, you mentioned this. Are we seeing a revolution in college

00:52football to reflect that NFL professional type model? A lot of people

00:57have asked how will Bill Belichick relate to college kids? How will he

01:01recruit? Is he going to hit the road and enter a 16 year olds living room and say

01:06hey come play for me? Probably not. He is trying to set up his institution to do

01:12those things for him to operate like a professional model which is what he did

01:18in New England. He wasn't just the head coach responsible for the game plan and

01:24the X's and O's. He was the front office exec. He held full power with the Patriots.

01:30It's one of the reasons I don't think anybody wanted to give him that

01:34elsewhere around the National Football League. It seems as though he will have

01:39that in Chapel Hill. Yeah and I'm surprised he actually didn't just go to the SEC and go

01:44full blast Bill because the one thing we understand is college football coaches

01:48same thing with college baseball coaches, college basketball coaches. You got to cross the line at

01:53times if you want that good player. You got to say to yourself you know what if I go buy the book

01:57this kid's probably going to another institution. Oh I'm not supposed to pick up the phone call

02:01on this day and call him. Maybe I'll get one of my assistants to do that. Oh I'm not supposed to

02:04have an in-house visit. Let's keep this on the hush guys. Oh I was just in town stopping by.

02:08Let me talk to your son here to see if he wants to be a part of the North Carolina football team

02:12because we saw it in the pros. Taping every single practice you can before Super Bowls

02:16inside the game breaking down signals at halftime of the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl and saying

02:21oh we know every screen pass you have coming now. So Bill will walk that line which is acceptable

02:26in college football but the interesting thing is going to be you're right Ben. Usually when you

02:30hire a head coach in college football yes it is about X's and O's but usually those guys are

02:35rock star salesmen which means that guy shows up into your living room and you have six offers on

02:40the table from other schools. He walks away with a signed signature with a pen and paper that said

02:45that kid's coming to my school with the enthusiasm and also the panache to say you know what I relate

02:49the young kids. Yes Bill Belichick has won multiple Super Bowls. He's coach Tom Brady.

02:53He's going to walk into any kid's living room now and have that but is it I'm Bill Belichick

02:59my staff's going to bring the kids to me and then I'll eventually talk to him. We'll see how that

03:03goes because the excitement will be there. They're going to get players but as I talked about before

03:07the pro game and the college game is so much different. You know I thought Bill Belichick

03:10would have been perfect because the one thing we understand with Bill he's a football lifer and

03:14he loves the game. I thought if he did not coach NFL football he'd go right to the high school ranks

03:18you know kids 15 16 17 mold them for their careers coach them well send them off to college and away

03:24you go or he would have just taken over for one of the institutions like you know Air Force one of

03:28the military academies Army or Navy because of that discipline he had filled with the Patriot

03:32way. They're not getting transfers in and out once you show up as a freshman I know I got you from

03:3717 18 19 20 21 and away you go off into your life. I want to see that transition being made because he

03:43is running this like a pro game in the college system which once again Ben could revolutionize

03:48what we see or do you remember when they tried to hire Belichick of Carolina? Boy that was a disaster.

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