Bill Belichick’s flirtation with school soccer stays simply that. For now.
According to Pete Thamel and Chris Low of ESPN.com, points stay within the negotiations between Belichick and the University of North Carolina. A decision, per the report, is anticipated within the close to future.
The sticking factors embrace, through ESPN.com, Belichick’s wage, assets for the workers, reporting construction, the potential position for Stephen Belichick, Bill’s son, and North Carolina’s NIL assets.
There have been stories that Belichick hopes to create a succession plan that may contain Stephen taking up for Bill, sooner or later. Since he’ll be 73 in April, it’s unclear how lengthy Bill Belichick would preserve the job.
Given the assorted open points, right here’s a good query. How a lot leverage does Belichick have? It’s been every week since he was linked to the job. There have been no stories of some other NFL groups or school packages attempting to intervene. There hasn’t even been one thing so simple as “groups that at present have coaches however that may need Belichick if a change is made” from a Belichick-friendly reporter.
So why ought to UNC give him the whole lot he needs? At the top of the day, it may be solely UNC that offers him what he wants — an opportunity to not simply coach a group however to run the present.
Even with almost a full season of calculated efforts via his numerous media platforms to goose the demand for his providers, there’s no land rush to rent Belichick. Ultimately, that ought to give the Tar Heels the power to dig within the again ends of their ft.
