North Carolina did the unthinkable Wednesday afternoon, hiring Bill Belichick to be the next head coach of the football team, and many are asking themselves why in the world North Carolina would want Belichick and why he would even want this job.
This combination is like getting mashed potatoes and putting chocolate syrup over them, which sounds nasty but could be good if you give it a try, and that is what the Tar Heels are doing here, trying out something they never thought was possible.
A few weeks ago, when North Carolina fired Mack Brown, who is 73, one year older than Belichick, it was all about getting someone younger to adapt to today’s college kids and know how to work with NIL. Instead, they did the exact opposite, hiring a 72-year-old man who knows nothing about how to recruit high school players and probably doesn’t even know what NIL is.
The move to hire the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach had nothing to do with improving the program; it had everything to do with just trying to be relevant, and they hit the jackpot.
North Carolina is a basketball school, and people in Chapel Hill only pay attention to the football team from late August until the Tar Heels run out on the basketball court in early November, and they wanted to change that narrative.
Now, everyone’s eyeballs in the state or around the country will be tuning in each week to see how Belichick is doing when it comes to recruiting, the transfer portal, NIL, and winning or losing games, just like it was with Deion Sanders at Colorado last season.
It doesn’t matter if the Tar Heels go 5-7 or 9-3 next season because they are going to be watched by everyone, people that want to see Belichick succeed or people that want to see him fail, and that is going to put butts in seats and viewers on their team to bring in more revenue.
North Carolina football is as relevant as the Jacksonville Jaguars, and we saw them do the same when they hired former Florida and Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer to be their head coach in 2021 without NFL experience; everyone was watching them, and it was a total failure.
Nobody is taking the Tar Heels as a serious team, and there is not a single person who thinks this is going to end well; Belichick will be 73 next April, and when he realizes how big of a headache coaching in college is compared to the NFL he is going to bounce before he can build anything.
Belichick is an NFL guy, and he wants Don Shula’s coaching wins record, which he is only 14 wins away from tying; there will be a desperate NFL team in the next two years that wants to sell their fans on something, and the first call they will make is to Belichick, and he will leave in a second to chase his dream.
North Carolina knows what they are doing, and at the end of the day, this is more about being in the headlines than what will happen on the football field.
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