Bill Belichick Named Head Coach of North Carolina Football

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00:00with a story we discussed last weekend entering conference title Saturday that

00:10felt at the time like maybe it was an onion headline or just a leverage play

00:16for the National Football League this week it all became a reality the new head

00:21football coach of North Carolina is Bill Belichick the guy that has won the most

00:26Super Bowls as a head coach in the history of the National Football League

00:31will coach collegiately for the first time in his life at the age of 72 Joe

00:39this came to be earlier in the week that no this was legitimate that the

00:44interviews that Bill Belichick had had with UNC were for this actual head

00:49coaching vacancy and then throughout the week it was reported a contract was in

00:54place it just needed approval on Wednesday night it became official a

00:59Thursday introductory press conference in Chapel Hill Bill Belichick is the new

01:05head coach of Carolina as you watched him speak at his introductory presser

01:10what did you make of Bill Belichick's approach to becoming UNC's next head

01:14football coach? That they're potentially the most organized team within the

01:17conference I honestly believe that right from the get-go I think he's an added

01:21dimension in regards to this program we saw Matt Brown take it to a level they

01:26plateaued and now Bill Belichick is looking to take this team to an ACC

01:30championship and more importantly a college football playoff whether he gets

01:34there or not remains to be seen seven and a half win total already on FanDuel

01:38plus 106 to the over it's juiced heavily to the under to start but I'll just say

01:44this and I and we talked about it on the radio Ben you know he understands the

01:47current landscape of college football he's close friends with Nick Saban his

01:51former assistant Bill O'Brien's currently coaching within the conference

01:55at Boston College he understands what it takes and as we see NIL creep in and the

02:01transfer portal it's looking more and more like the NFL and that's where I

02:05believe Bill Belichick can coach his team up I believe that from just a

02:10mentoring standpoint and technique and game planning and X's and O's this team

02:15will be significantly better or long-term than what they were with Matt

02:20Brown now whether that means in year one they hit the ground running I'm willing

02:24to take that bet I would take the over early on based off the schedule but I

02:28think he's gonna be a great addition to the conference Kev I want to make this

02:32point with the win total is this happens all the time when there's a big story is

02:36some books FanDuel is very good at it was that a story we'll attach a number

02:40to it and for some reason someone in that room threw out a six-and-a-half

02:46thinking probably they weren't six this year which is crazy there went total

02:51this year was seven a half yeah they went under that number obviously that's

02:55part of the reason Matt Brown was let go the fact that they hung that six and a

02:59half and I was watching it went minus 113 minus 138 minus 170 and someone in

03:07that room grabbed somebody by the shirt and said listen to me right now if you

03:11make North Carolina would build out to our biggest liability before it's 2025

03:16but move this thing and now it's seven and a half and we do you know we have up

03:20there oh the over was plus 124 not anymore now it's plus 102 and here's the

03:26thing we know this well we do this all the time if we get to next year's

03:32preview shows and we are breaking down in North Carolina eight and a half win

03:36total that wouldn't be stunning oh why would that be stunning North Carolina is

03:41a team that is usually very competitive within this conference and it is a

03:46conference that is open that this year saw SMU debut and go unbeaten in

03:52conference play Clemson is look clearly going to have some level of good with as

03:58long as dabble is there right but clearly losing their fastball due to his

04:03approach in the portal Miami and crystal ball maybe they never get over

04:07the hump we're still gonna have Florida State is one of the best odds and there

04:11was truly one of the worst power conference teams all year long so before

04:15you even get to Bill Belichick specifically North Carolina football was

04:21likely always going to have top six odds to win the ACC next year for even throw

04:27Bill in the mix Ben and let's talk about that football program on tobacco Road

04:31yes football first and foremost is not what Carolina is known for but this is

04:36not Deion Sanders to Colorado taking over for a one-win football team in all

04:41six seasons led by led by Mac Brown in his second stint they reached a ball

04:47game they got to at least six wins six of the last ten years for UNC they have

04:52won at least eight games there is a standard in Carolina to be successful in

04:58college football sure they have not won an ACC championship since 1980 but they

05:03have played in the ACC title game in the last five seasons but now let's talk the

05:09person the figure and the football success that is Bill Belichick nobody in

05:14the history of the National Football League as a head coach has won more than

05:18Barty trophies Bill's got six nobody has played in more Super Bowls bills made

05:23nine appearances in that big game including his postseason victories he

05:28has three hundred and thirty-three wins that is second most in the history of

05:33the National Football League only 14 when shy of the great Don Shula so Kev

05:38there is the thought of why would Bill Belichick want to coach collegiately and

05:44once he has now made this decision will it work what say you so to me I think it

05:50has a great chance to work there's one thing I am worried about which is

05:53something that hurt him at new in New England down the back stretches it seems

05:56like he is only comfortable working with like six people like if they name

06:00Patricia the offensive coordinator I might sing a different song but but it's

06:06if you look at the landscape right and we all follow both obviously very

06:10closely is if you're a high-level coach how is college not more attractive

06:16there's now they're both very pro level the difference is the job security that

06:21Bill Belichick will be there as long as he wants leasing yeah and with his son

06:24potentially moving over from Washington to join the staff in the offseason

06:29that's always a possibility as well I will say when you just look at what he

06:33has said and stated about the program that he wants it to be a next level

06:38situation where kids come to North Carolina get an education but their main

06:43concern is to be elevated to the next level as a top 10 top 15 draft pick that

06:49brings a lot of weight with you and that that sells whether Bill Belichick is

06:53going into the homes of these 17 18 year olds or not that that process is there

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