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Bill Belichick appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Monday to discuss his recent talks with North Carolina regarding its vacant head coaching job.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Belichick met with UNC Chancellor Lee Harriss Roberts for roughly 5 hours on Sunday to presumably discuss the Tar Heels job that opened when the school fired Mack Brown a few weeks ago.
When McAfee asked Belichick to shine some light on those discussions, Belichick turned back into the New England Patriots head coach who was often (or almost always) terse and short with the media.
“I don’t wanna give up too much information. I’ve gotta get my press conference aura back,” joked Belichick with that familiar wry smile on his face.
He did acknowledge some of the discussions have been “good” but would only divulge that “we’ll see how it goes.”
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The 6-time Super Bowl-winning head coach then talked about what he would potentially bring to a college program in terms of getting players ready for the NFL.
“If I was in a college program, it would be a pipeline to the NFL for the players that had the ability to play in the NFL,” said Belichick, who made sure to stress the word “If” before he started speaking. “It would be an NFL program but not at the NFL level.”
"IF I was in a College program it would be a pipeline to the NFL for the players that had the ability to play in the NFL..
It would be a professional program at the College level..
I don't have any doubt that the players would be ready for the NFL" ~ Bill Belichick #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/JyMDtzs2yR
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) December 9, 2024
Whether UNC is ready to hire 1 of the greatest football coaches at any level remains to be seen, and McAfee wasn’t making any inroads there on Monday.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
