Bill Belichick goes back to school
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Bill Belichick, head coach at the University of North Carolina. It's going to take some getting used to. Robert Mays starts that process from two different angles on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. First, he's joined by Seth Wickersham of ESPN to discuss why a move to the college game would be attractive to Belichick at this stage of his career. Then, David Ubben, host of The Athletic's Until Saturday podcast, jumps on with Robert to dig into the Belichick/UNC pairing from the college football perspective.
Host: Robert Mays
With: Seth Wickersham and David Ubben
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime |
| 0:08.2 | Video. I'm Robert Mays. Different sort of show for you guys today. We're talking about Bill Belichick, |
| 0:13.4 | and Bill Belichick heading to the University of North Carolina. Full disclosure, we were going to |
| 0:16.9 | release this on Tuesday. Obviously, some stuff happened this week that threw a wrench into our schedule. |
| 0:21.5 | So we're doing it a couple days later than we wanted to. |
| 0:23.8 | But I definitely wanted to have some sort of reaction to this story on the feed because it's a massive story. |
| 0:30.9 | The greatest football coach of all time, the most accomplished football coach of all time, unequivocally, going to college football and |
| 0:38.0 | bypassing another NFL chance, it's shocking in some ways, but maybe less shocking than it seems |
| 0:44.4 | at first glance. |
| 0:45.3 | So we wanted to hit this conversation in this topic from two different angles. |
| 0:49.3 | The first thing you'll hear is a discussion between me and my friend Seth Wickersham from ESPN. |
| 0:53.5 | Seth wrote a book on the Belichick Brady Patriots. |
| 0:57.0 | He understands that building and the way that it operates in Belichick's psyche, I guess, |
| 1:02.8 | in a way that very few people do. |
| 1:04.4 | He wrote a piece for ESPN.com last week reacting to this news. |
| 1:07.6 | So talk to Seth about that story, but also just his general take on where Belichick currently |
| 1:13.5 | is and what that means for how this is going to unfold at North Carolina. |
| 1:18.2 | But I also wanted to include a college perspective on this because I don't watch a ton of |
| 1:22.6 | college football. |
| 1:23.2 | I am not fluent in the college football world. |
| 1:25.4 | We have a lot of people at the athletic who are. |
| 1:28.1 | So the host of our until Saturday college football podcast, David Ubin, came on to share |
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