Just What Has Bill Belichick Gotten Himself Into at UNC?

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It started out as a rumor — one that most people thought was a joke — but now it’s all very, very real: Bill Belichick is the new head coach of the University of North Carolina football team. Just what would make someone with eight Super Bowl rings decide that an ACC afterthought should be the next stop in his career? And while many people could argue that the transfer portal and NIL deals are making the college game look more like the NFL every year, there is still one more important question: Can someone with a notoriously frigid demeanor handle the glad-handing and booster-hugging world of NCAA football? Ryan McGee joins host David Dennis, Jr. to answer all those questions and to spell out just what a Belchick Era in Chapel Hill might look like and also to remind everyone that there’s nowhere to go but up for a team that hasn’t really mattered for over a century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ryan McGee, what did your brain
0:03.0	calculate and report back to the rest of your body
0:07.1	when you first heard that Bill Belichick might be coaching the Tar Heels football team?
0:11.3	There ain't no way.
0:12.7	Like that was literally my first reaction was,
0:14.9	what is his angle?
0:16.3	Like, what is he leveraging this to ultimately want to do?
0:21.2	That's some good years in the NFL, so that was okay.
0:24.0	But this is really kind of a dream come true.
0:27.3	I grew up in college football with my dad.
0:30.1	As a coach of Navy for 50 years, so as a kid, all I knew was college football.
0:34.1	And so it's great to come back home to Carolina.
0:39.5	And so I'm like, I'm texting my NFL friends.
0:42.2	All right, what's his angle here?
0:43.7	What's he doing?
0:45.3	And then it started to become kind of real.
0:49.1	And it's in my backyard.
0:50.5	And I know these Tar Hill people.
0:52.3	And they, when I started reaching out to my people that
0:55.0	should be in the know their reaction was the same as mine ain't no way and yet here we sit look
1:01.5	as somebody who went on around the horn and and guaranteed that if he took this job they could dock
1:08.0	501 points from my score I'm'm with you. Not only am I terrified of returning
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