The multi-day melodrama that performed out between Bill Belichick and North Carolina blunted a little bit of the shock of the Tar Heels hiring the 72-year-old, six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach, however trade consensus was nonetheless shocked/shocked/stunned as the 2 sides barreled nearer to the goal-line.
The information lastly noticed daylight Wednesday. North Carolina formally introduced Belichick as coach Dec. 11, with him saying in a press release he seemed ahead to constructing the soccer program in Chapel Hill.
CBS Sports surveyed a smattering of athletic administrators, coaches and brokers concerning the Belichick-North Carolina marriage, providing anonymity in change for candor.
College/professional teaching agent: “North Carolina, at this level, doesn’t care about soccer being profitable.”
SEC athletic director: “Obviously an excellent teaching thoughts. He additionally brings a realistic view of the way to steadiness cash on this new age of paying gamers … Not certain of the match. Saying that, I’d by no means wager in opposition to him.”
Big Ten athletic director: “You’re solely pretty much as good as your choices, preserve that in thoughts, if he is severe candidate then that tells me a bit concerning the choices.”
SEC athletic director: “I feel it is a threat/reward state of affairs. The man clearly is aware of the way to win, has been in a professional system which we’re mainly headed to, and so forth. Not certain he’d be nice with donors and a number of the issues that professional sports activities haven’t got. I do suppose all of us should suppose outdoors the field shifting ahead although.”
Agent: “They’d be changing one 70-plus year-old-dude with one other, in an ever-evolving period of soccer and a coach who’s by no means navigated it, and he appears to get irritated on the slightest trace of him not having all the facility.
“With donors, campus reps, and a state college, he’ll discover it extremely irritating inside three months of the job and asking himself when does the soccer begin. I do not see it as something greater than him forcing the NFL’s hand in giving him one other probability.”
SEC defensive coordinator: “It’s full madness. How does that work? I feel the enchantment of his expertise will assist tremendously — nevertheless it’s nonetheless about relationships and the NIL piece is necessary!
“Obviously he is an incredible coach and tremendous sensible. The faculty recreation is completely different. But he could have an incredible workers and adapt.”
Former FBS head coach with NFL expertise: “While everybody ought to need to play for the legendary coach, and take up all of the information, the model that Bill utilized in New England will make it powerful to retain expertise given the trendy panorama of school soccer.”
NFC workforce government upon Belichick’s preliminary involvement final week: “I ponder how a lot offset (wage) he has left and has to indicate good religion effort.”
- CBS Sports, in reply: Why not sit on the shelf all yr? “He works, it is all he is aware of.”
College teaching agent: “I can not anticipate him to inevitably publicly shit on the UNC donors in three months about how annoying faculty is.”
College teaching agent: actually simply texted the dumpster fireplace emoji.
AFC government on Bill’s motivations: “I’m shocked, everyone in our constructing is speaking about it — scouts, analysts, power coaches. I feel he is salty over the Apple doc and on a screw-the-NFL factor not too long ago.”
- Same exec on workers: “Is Joe Judge going to run his offense? Is that going to work?
College personnel staffer: “They’ve set this system again years with this. How a lot of that ‘Bible’ are they gonna decide to?”
College teaching agent: “Dumb. Like Bill Walsh going again to Stanford however worse.”
College teaching agent: “Shocked. Stunned. Surprised they went for it. Will be one of the best transfer they’ve ever made or set them again a decade. The turmoil between the athletic division confirmed their enamel on this.”
College/professional teaching agent: “This goes to hurry up the change of the faculty recreation. Everyone is gonna be pumping cash like loopy into this factor. Private fairness, right here we come.”
Assistant coach weighing choices for the place to go subsequent in his profession trajectory: “I would like in!”
Scout on Belichick’s ideas: “I can cross on the NFL for a yr and make $10 million and go get the wins file in 2026? Ok!”
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