The Belichick Saga (5 Viewers)

[fruity pebbles]

His contract is probably air tight but I wonder if the university tries to unravel things through a breach of contract. He doesn’t even appear to be putting much effort in nowadays. No way 2010 Belichick flies off and vacations in Nantucket on the bye week if his team is falling apart.

 

[fruity pebbles]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

 

[NewlyRetired]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

I agree. I think he has lost any sense of self awareness and or just does not give a **** any more.

 

[NewlyRetired]

His contract is probably air tight but I wonder if the university tries to unravel things through a breach of contract. He doesn’t even appear to be putting much effort in nowadays. No way 2010 Belichick flies off and vacations in Nantucket on the bye week if his team is falling apart.

Every thing that is being leaked by the school is just a form of negotiation to get him to accept a smaller buy out I think. Whether he will or not is unknown. He may just be willing to take the whole program down with him for the full buy out.

I feel awful for the players who bought into this con job.

And as someone above said, it’s not just Bill. He has a whole cadre of people that are milking the school dry from Lombardi, to Lombardi’s kid, to Bill’s kids, to the gold digger……

 

[NewlyRetired]

UNC puts out two mini statements, one from Bill and one from the athletic director, trying to calm the storm

https://x.com/goheels/status/1976099402151538931?s=61

 

[fruity pebbles]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point. I’m thinking we only know the half of it.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point. I’m thinking we only know the half of it.

Hulu has been chronicling the team for a while in preparation for a documentary on the first season of Bill coaching the team.

Just yesterday it was announced that this project has been cancelled. I doubt any of the film will ever see the light of day but I bet there is some interesting stuff in there.

 

[fruity pebbles]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point. I’m thinking we only know the half of it.

Hulu has been chronicling the team for a while in preparation for a documentary on the first season of Bill coaching the team.

Just yesterday it was announced that this project has been cancelled. I doubt any of the film will ever see the light of day but I bet there is some interesting stuff in there.

That seemed like it was going to be a Hard Knocks type of production. I’m thinking more a 30 for 30 piece.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point. I’m thinking we only know the half of it.

Hulu has been chronicling the team for a while in preparation for a documentary on the first season of Bill coaching the team.

Just yesterday it was announced that this project has been cancelled. I doubt any of the film will ever see the light of day but I bet there is some interesting stuff in there.

That seemed like it was going to be a Hard Knocks type of production. I’m thinking more a 30 for 30 piece.

HBO's Hard Knocks had contacted the UNC team and wanted to do their normal preseason chronically of a team. After it was announced that the Hard Knocks project was a go, it was later scrapped, reportedly because Bill soured on the idea that it would not include the full season.

It was at that point that Hulu approached the team for a full season chronicling with the gold digger supposedly getting an important role. It was this role that saw her get on the field before games that some people saw clips of.

I agree that we would not have seen a 30for30 type from either Hard Knocks or Hulu.

 

[Jewell]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point.

A Hill to Die On: Bill Belichick’s Time at UNC

 

[fruity pebbles]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point.

A Hill to Die On: Bill Belichick’s Time at UNC

Do your job…….Bill’s time in Nantucket

 

[TripItUp]

when i saw this thread bumped I was hoping for new links to the gf...

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

I really hope we get a documentary on this season at some point. I’m thinking we only know the half of it.

Hulu has been chronicling the team for a while in preparation for a documentary on the first season of Bill coaching the team.

Just yesterday it was announced that this project has been cancelled. I doubt any of the film will ever see the light of day but I bet there is some interesting stuff in there.

That seemed like it was going to be a Hard Knocks type of production. I’m thinking more a 30 for 30 piece.

I nominate @Capella to finish the "What if I told you...."

 

[Penguin]

abomination

 

[Deepster]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

He is one of the biggest egomaniacs in sports. You don't think getting curbstomped by mid-level ACC teams is embarrassing to him?

 

[fruity pebbles]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

He is one of the biggest egomaniacs in sports. You don't think getting curbstomped by mid-level ACC teams is embarrassing to him?

At this point, no. I think he’s just there for the money.

 

[HellToupee]

How has blowhard “GM” Michael Lombardi and his hideous rug escaped public scrutiny in this whole fiasco

 

[Jewell]

How has blowhard “GM” Michael Lombardi and his hideous rug escaped public scrutiny in this whole fiasco

The football podcasts I listen to have been skewering Lombardi over the UNC fiasco; but the average person, even the average sports fan, has no clue who Mike Lombardi is. So mainstream media focuses exclusively on Belichick because he’s the big name everyone knows. Articles on Belichick’s downfall get clicks. Articles on Mike Lombardi’s downfall do not.

 

[FiredMartz]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

He is one of the biggest egomaniacs in sports. You don't think getting curbstomped by mid-level ACC teams is embarrassing to him?

At this point, no. I think he’s just there for the money.

For the money.....and Co-eds.....

 

[Joe Schmo]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

He is one of the biggest egomaniacs in sports. You don't think getting curbstomped by mid-level ACC teams is embarrassing to him?

At this point, no. I think he’s just there for the money.

For the money.....and Co-eds.....

For the money...for the Co-eds

 

[Deepster]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

He is one of the biggest egomaniacs in sports. You don't think getting curbstomped by mid-level ACC teams is embarrassing to him?

At this point, no. I think he’s just there for the money.

"As of 2025, Belichick has an estimated net worth of $70 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. The bulk of that wealth comes from the massive contracts he earned in his 40-plus years in the NFL."

"Agents speculated that Belichick could command a lucrative salary, with estimates ranging from $8-10 million for a studio analyst and potentially double that for a top game analyst job."

He could have easily gotten his UNC money in the studio. It's his ego. For sure.

 

[SofaKings]

This is one of the most extraordinary face plants in sports history. This is so embarrassing for him and you know it is only going to get worse.

Funny thing is I don’t think he’s embarrassed at all

He is one of the biggest egomaniacs in sports. You don't think getting curbstomped by mid-level ACC teams is embarrassing to him?

At this point, no. I think he’s just there for the money.

Uh, I think he's there for something else. #meow

 

[fatness]

How has blowhard “GM” Michael Lombardi and his hideous rug escaped public scrutiny in this whole fiasco

Much of the negative attention he should get is directed at Jordon Hudson.

 

[Brunell4MVP]

Bill is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. He don't give a care. He's getting paid and getting his comrades paid. He's got houses to keep up. Win or lose, he was getting a bag. Plus he's nailing a 24 year old smokin body, who he will go DiCaprio on soon, and move on the the next young smoke. Might even get some media contracts which he will go through the motions with as well.

 

[NewlyRetired]

The Athletic’s latest

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Bill Belichick pledged an NFL approach at North Carolina. Program insiders call it flawed

Inside the decisions that have led to North Carolina's on-field dysfunction.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Did people really expect big things from UNC in year one of his tenure?

 

[fatness]

The Athletic’s latest

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Bill Belichick pledged an NFL approach at North Carolina. Program insiders call it flawed

Inside the decisions that have led to North Carolina's on-field dysfunction.

www.nytimes.com

Good article, thanks.

“It’s the arrogance of it all,” a university source told The Athletic. “Because they had success in the NFL — and by they, I mean Belichick only — they (thought) they could come in and replicate that without knowing how college football works.”

North Carolina ranks 133rd out of 136 teams in total offense (263.8 yards per game), and opponents are completing 70.3 percent of their passes, which ranks 131st.

The people who spoke to The Athletic on condition of anonymity about the leadership of Belichick and Lombardi have worked either for the football program or for the university over the past year, or had direct dealings with the team. They described a culture of arrogance and ignoring of steep differences between college and pro football. There were some disagreements within the group regarding some specific assessments of Belichick and Lombardi, including a person inside the program who disputed that Belichick has been absent or inaccessible to his players.

But that person also said the pair underestimated the difficulty of coaching college players, as evidenced by their public proclamations that UNC would be run exactly like an NFL franchise — “We consider ourselves the 33rd team,” Lombardi said in February. “Bill Belichick mentally prepares a team better than I’ve ever imagined a coach could do,” said the person inside the program. “The truth is, this is not the 33rd team. This is a team full of kids.”

 

[General Malaise]

How has blowhard “GM” Michael Lombardi and his hideous rug escaped public scrutiny in this whole fiasco

The football podcasts I listen to have been skewering Lombardi over the UNC fiasco; but the average person, even the average sports fan, has no clue who Mike Lombardi is. So mainstream media focuses exclusively on Belichick because he’s the big name everyone knows. Articles on Belichick’s downfall get clicks. Articles on Mike Lombardi’s downfall do not.

Oh, Stewart Mandel didn't give Lombardi a pass.....from his Mailbag in the Athletic:

Should North Carolina cut ties with Bill Belichick? I never liked the hire. The university’s Board of Trustees should have never stuck its nose where it didn’t belong. — Kerwin P.

Even the people at UNC who were most excited to land Chapel Bill must surely recognize by now it was a terrible mistake, but man, I have no idea how they could unwind it.

This isn’t the pros, where the owners hold all the power and most of the coaches are considered easily dispensable. If Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones decides he’s done with a coach, he pulls a few million dollars out of the couch cushions on his yacht and moves on to the next guy. It’s a lot more complicated in college, and especially here. UNC is believed to be spending at least $25 million on salaries this year for Belichick and his staff. Who knows how much more on top of that went into increased recruiting budgets, marketing, social media, etc. All that to flush and start over a year later?

And if they do cut ties, well, Belichick’s contract is fully guaranteed for the first three years, so it would cost at least $20 million to fire him. Mike Lombardi, college football’s highest-paid general manager, would have $3 million remaining on his three-year contract. Defensive coordinator Steve Belichick would be owed his remaining $1.4 million, and the other assistants would be owed money as well. So now you’re essentially paying double the cost for one lousy season.

If you’re UNC, you’re hoping Belichick reads the room and voluntarily throws in the towel, which seems highly unlikely for a proud and notoriously stubborn individual. And I can’t imagine an NFL franchise will throw him a lifeline at this point. He’s also tied at the hip to Lombardi, his Patriots buddy, who last week sent a letter to UNC donors laying out their grand rebuilding plan. (He starts the letter talking about former Philadelphia 76ers GM Sam Hinkie’s infamous “Trust the Process” tagline as a means to assure everyone they’re not tanking.) If there’s going to be a fall guy, it’s probably not him.

More realistically, Belichick fires a bunch of his staff (though presumably not his two sons), does some sort of front-office restructuring and runs it back in 2026. Unless the UNC brass says, “We absolutely cannot let this guy do even one more day of damage to our brand, we’ll suck it up and pay whatever it takes.”

The whole thing is a staggering window into the degree of financial malpractice these universities enter into when they’re desperate to be better at football.