North Carolina Tar Heels football general manager Michael Lombardi doubled down on the position that Bill Belichick has no intention of leaving the program to go to the NFL.
Belichick was rumored to be interested in some NFL jobs that opened up weeks after he decided to jump into the college ranks for the first time in his career. Belichick replaced Mack Brown as head coach at North Carolina after decades with the New England Patriots.
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Bill Belichick, the new head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, speaks to the media at the Loudermilk Center for Excellence. (Images by Jim Dedmon-Imagn)
Lombardi, who joined Belichick on the show, had expressed several times that Belichick would not leave the Tar Heels. He made the proclamation again in an interview Monday on OutKick’s “The Ricky Cobb Show.”
“I think there’s one thing we can all agree on, whether you’re a fan of what Bill did in New England or you were a hater because he beat you in New England, the one thing we can all agree on is that Bill is really smart.” said. “Bill knows the NFL landscape better than most fans. And if Bill had thought there was a job that appealed to him, he wouldn’t have moved to North Carolina.
“He wasn’t looking for a job. He wasn’t collecting unemployment. He wasn’t expecting anyone to hire him. He knew there were great opportunities if he wanted to get into the NFL. What we also knew was the NFL. “It’s a slippery slope in the sense that there’s a lot of politics underway. “You answer to a lot of different people, there’s an agenda within the buildings.”
Lombardi used a quote from one of the greatest NFL head coaches of all time to describe why Belichick would not return to the NFL.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick speaks to the media during a press conference at Gillette Stadium on January 11, 2024, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
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“Bill Walsh told me in 1984, when there were 28 teams in the National Football League, ‘You know, we only compete against eight teams here, boy.’ He was right then and he’s right today,” he said. “And I think that line sums up why Bill is at North Carolina. Not every team is built to win.
“Not every team goes after the Super Bowl. Not every team wants to do it. They want to win their way, not the right way. I think that’s why North Carolina became so attractive to him, because we can build a program here the same day.” right path.”
Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, also maintained that the 72-year-old head coach would stay in Carolina blue.
“Pictured: two people who are openly engaged with @uncfootball,” he captioned an Instagram photo.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick before a game against the Atlanta Falcons at NRG Stadium. (Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)
Belichick has been on the recruiting trail in recent weeks and landed a major defensive transfer earlier this month.
