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North Carolina GM makes strong pitch to prospective transfers: ‘Play for the greatest coach of all time’
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Michael Lombardi has a bold pitch for college football players who are considering a move to North Carolina.
Lombardi is set to join Bill Belichick as UNC’s general manager in Chapel Hill. The longtime NFL scout and front office executive joined the Pat McAfee Show on Thursday afternoon to talk about this new role with the Tar Heels.
He was up front with what UNC’s pitch will be for prospective student-athletes.
“If you want to play for the greatest coach of all time and you want to be around a winning the program, please, enter the portal,” Lombardi said. “We’ll take you. We’re going to go through it deeply. This is an advertisement for it. We’re going deep into it because we’re going to rebuild the team and I think it’s important … This is team building. This isn’t adding players. We’re going to systematically and strategically build the team the right way so that we have sustainable success, so that you can compete at the highest level of college football.
Lombardi also shed some light on how North Carolina will approach the “salary cap” system that’s expected to be implemented in college football in the near future.
“There’s 2 things that involve the cap,” Lombardi said. “It involves ‘how do we develop good players?’ And ‘how do we pay the players that already are good players?’ So there’s 2 systems that are going on simultaneously and you need a head coach like coach Belichick who understands that. Player development is the key to salary cap [management].”
Here’s a clip of Lombardi’s comments on the Pat McAfee Show:
Belichick is officially being introduced as North Carolina’s head coach in a 2 p.m. ET press conference on Thursday.
Spenser is a news editor for Saturday Down South and covers college football across all Saturday Football brands.
