What is the verdict on Bill Belichick's debut?

Surely the AD has plenty of culpability, but this doesn't absolve BB. He took the job to coach the players that place could attract. What we're seeing is the Browns HC version of BB. He thought his name alone would just be irresistible to top talent in the portal. He isn't Prime, he doesn't play to the media and recruits like Prime. He "hired" Jordon Hudson to be his publicist and that's never going to work. This is all so wonderful and it couldn't happen in a better place than UNC.

Culpability and it doesn’t absolve Belichick? Coming into the season, NC wasn’t ranked in the top 25 and wasn’t even listed among other teams receiving votes. No reasonable person should expect him to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Belichick is the greatest NFL coach/GM in history and has nothing to prove. His dad was the head coach there and Belichick taking the gig as a homecoming of sorts. No matter how mediocre NC is this season, he won’t be going home devastated.

Someone is jealous

Is his girlfriend in the portal?

He's definitely in his girlfriend's portal.

Not sure why he signed up for this. What a mess.

I used to work with Rashad McCants father. Rashad was a UNC BB player who went pro, but unfortunately went through the infamous African American Studies program that did not requite athletes go to class or write their own essays. His father complained to UNC that his son was not getting an education and helped initiate the program's downfall.

Whomever wrote that post must also have also been in that program. Note the correct spelling of the last name.

Haha, Rashad McCan't Read!

The program's downfall? They won a National Championship during McCant's senior year and two more Championships in 2009 and 2017. Not much of a downfall. I won't argue that McCant's didn't get much of an education while at UNC, but that is just as much on him as it is UNC. Plenty of UNC athletes go on to earn advanced degrees.

The "Paper Class Scandal" was real, but it wasn't created by the athletic department. It was the result of a very lazy department chair who ended up resigning. The Raleigh News & Observer had to issue a lot of retractions, but UNC still deals with the fallout of the classes.

By program I meant the one that existed for two decades--the largest ethical scandal in the history of the NCAA. Its part of UNC's history, their character, and who they are.

I think HS recruiting is still a big factor, but he can get "all is own players" in next year's portal. I think he was hired so late the ability to evaluate who was available in the portal at the time was pretty much non-existent. I could see another big turnover in personnel at the end of the year.

If he were a 43 year old coach, then "3-4 years" to build makes sense, but he is an old man and no one thinks he will last 4 years.

Bubba did not want Bill.

On to Cincinnati

BB is better at robbing the cradle than coaching college FB

Uninformative, it would take 2-3 years minimum to turn UNC into something. This may be more of a nepotism job for him anyway. Let his kids do the heavy lifting he doesn't want to do while they all get nice paychecks. But the man can flat out coach defense though. Brady did not play on those Patriot defenses and the D he built for the Giants was all time great. Sure he had LT, but you don't just get lucky for 30 years in the NFL.

I read several pages on UNC Football Forum. They were not under any delusions. 90% figured it would turn out like this. OTOH his buy out is only a million dollars. Bet Bama wished they had such a deal.

But hope springs eternal, maybe things will work out.

Like Brosnan at newberry park, the most important thing in (elite) high school and college is recruiting.

in the NFL where talent is more even, on the field coaching matters a lot. But as any Brady fan will tell you, players matter more.

he’s still probably the greatest NFL coach of all time

NFL record without Brady: 84 wins, 104 losses

So, with that record, subsequently being shown the door in the NFL, and man boobs (bigger than Jordan's), UNC said we found our new coach.

Only people who know little about football would argue against Brady being the biggest reason for the success in New England. He was the reason players took hard coaching, played for less money, never doubted themselves in the biggest moments because they knew with #12, the Patriots always had a chance. Brady was the leader on and off the field.