How Big a Deal is Bill Belichick's Mess?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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Bill Belichick’s relationship with Jordon Hudson is the stuff of sports gossip legend, but we are most interested in what it says about Belichick’s ability to run an ACC football team. Alex and Richard discuss in this subscriber episode:

* How Jordon filled a vacuum in UNC football communications

* Why Alex thinks UNC should look for a way out of this marriage

* Why Richard thinks that could be a substantial overreaction

* What Urban Meyer’s Jaguars season tells us about the situation

* What UNC is losing already and why The Athletic’s report about the program losing “Hard Knocks” is one of the biggest red flags

* The idea of Belichick as a coaching hire vs. the reality in his current form

* Where Belichick is already, however, providing some value to UNC

* Finding common ground

Further listening: Our Belichick “emergency show” when he was hired in March

Producer: Anthony Vito

Hosts: Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
0:01.9	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:03.4	Looking in the mirror.
0:04.5	Everybody just do your job.
0:06.7	You understand that?
0:07.7	Hey, were you shut up?
0:08.6	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.1	Guys being dudes.
0:12.3	And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man.
0:14.7	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.3	Thank you, Lee. Richard Johnson, let me tell you, unlike Bill Belichick, I'm happy to talk about that.
0:22.6	It's been a weird one, I would say, with your old palbillium and UNC. I got to say, on the bingo
0:30.4	card of things that I, the bingo card of how this thing would go left, did not think it would go left
0:38.8	like this and before they also comma and before they played a game.
0:44.9	Yeah, I didn't think it was going to go like this either.
0:47.1	And everyone can go and check the receipts.
0:49.0	Neither of us is very high on this hire when it's made back in the winter.
0:54.0	But what's happened to North Carolina
0:56.8	by way of Bill Belichick and by way of Bill Belichick's relationship specifically over the past
1:02.3	few weeks is one of the weirder offseason stories that we've seen, certainly in the time
1:06.9	we've been doing this podcast, which since 2020. But I would say, let's call it in the millennium so far.
1:14.0	It's a weird one.
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