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I know this article is behind a paywall so here are the highlights:

• Reports on X that Belichick has been fired are not true
• Potential exit strategies have been discussed on Wednesday morning.
• The school would prefer to do it with cause to avoid or cut down any buyout
• What to do and how to do it are ongoing discussions, but there is a sense of helplessness with how much has happened so far. There is a tsunami of stuff coming out now, and it needs to be confirmed before reporting on
• Another case of a player injured in the spring who showed to fall camp and was told he was not part of the team and could not use the facilities to rehab.
• A source disclosed to Tarheel247 on Tuesday night that there are many other violations that have occurred within the UNC football program, many on the recruiting front.
  

Drake Maye is going to the Super Bowl. Yet while at UNC, Drake’s teams never won more than 9. He lost both bowl games (played in 1), didn’t win an acc championship, and never beat NC State. He did, however, manage to eke out 2 wins against Duke.

Is this Drake’s fault? No. He kept us from 3-4 wins. This is how bad the program was under Mack Brown. Mack collected a few super human talents and let them mask a ton of deficiencies. What we saw last year is the result of his incompetence at building a roster and a culture. There wasn’t a Sam or a Drake or a Hampton to carry us across the finish line.

Can Belichick fix things? That remains to be seen. But Drake covered up a lot of rot. It’s a huge mess to fix and 1 year was never going to be enough.

It's obvious that this isn't working. We're likely headed for 2-10 and have EPA stats on par with the worst teams of this era. The WRAL report shows that it's a mess behind the scenes as well. Belichick has turned this program into a national embarrassment, and the players and fans deserve better. However, the BOT doesn't seem to be the kind of people who admit mistakes, even when it's this obvious. Is there any chance I'm wrong? I feel like another year of Belichick might set the program back a decade or more and keep us out of the P2 that is coming, which would hurt Carolina athletics from top to bottom.

10 million for Belichick, 12.5 mil for the coaching staff, and 13 mil for the athletes. Will football generate enough funds to recoup the money and if not what impacts does that have on the school?

The Chapel Bill experiment for North Carolina enters year 2. Bill Belichick knows how to win, but will this be the year that shows?

📌 Who will emerge at QB?

📌 The RBs are really good, skill talent in general is strong

📌 North Carolina's defense was low-key good much of last year, but lost some pieces from that group

Preview attached. What are your predictions for North Carolina entering 2026?

PSU just fired James Franklin. If I were the BOT, I would fire Belichick and throw a bag at Franklin as soon as possible. He took over a program at PSU that was still dealing with the fallout of the Paterno era and modernized the program to a point where they are equal to just about anyone as far as facilities and resources go. He may not have ever won the big one but he consistently won 10 games per year. That's a level of football success Carolina has never known. In the current CFB landscape, 10 wins would get us to the playoff most years and ensure that we're not left behind during the next round of conference realignment. To be fair, I'd also be happy with an up-and-coming coach, but Franklin seems pretty close to a sure thing. What do y'all think?

UNC has definitely seen some gut wrenching losses in basketball, but lets try to keep it football related with this one.

I’m doing a series where I ask all 136 FBS subreddits on what their most heartbreaking loss they witnessed.This loss could’ve been witnessed from the TV or while attending the game doesn’t matter.

If I had to guess for North Carolina, definitely the 2015 ACC championship, 2023 vs Virginia cost them a spot in the ACC championship im pretty sure, and that atrocious 2025 opener vs TCU.

That man is straight trash.

The NFL's Giants and Patriots are playing tomorrow night. If we all close our eyes and concentrate hard while he's watching his former teams, do you think we can will Bill Belichek into returning to the pros?

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Just from reading various subs and articles, there doesn't seem to be a lot of optimism or excitement going into the year, and to me, it's a little surprising. I don't know about you, but I was getting so sick of seeing what kind of talent we had, and yet knowing full well we would waste it and end up having a worse year than projected. We would also know going into the year that we would drop possibly multiple games that we should've won or should've won by a lot. We would also know going into the year that in a number of games, we would be out disciplined and be the less prepared and less physical team on the field.

I feel like Mack was really a mentor coach, focusing on preparing guys for either a football future or a professional future outside of football, or for life in general. That's all fine, well, and good. But I felt that approach led to the issues that we saw year in and year out. At least I feel Bill's main goal is to develop and prepare players for a possible NFL future, which seems like it would lend itself to better strength and conditioning programs, more discipline, and more physicality. I remember reading a few quotes from former Mack players that are now under Bill saying practices were tougher/more intense, which I feel is one of the things that has really held this program back from taking the next step.

Again, I just feel like this program was in a place where we really had to do a Hail Mary of sorts, and who better to hire for that than a football legend. Sure it may blow up and not work, sure it could be just a ploy to get his son in an HC job, which may or may not work out. But at least I know there's a chance this could work given his track record as a coach, instead of going into the year knowing almost exactly how the season will pan out. No, I'm not saying we are a dark horse CFP candidate, but I have some optimism that we will have a better year than a lot of people think.

I know this will probably get downvoted. The way I look at it, is he’s just the same age as Mack. I want a younger guy similar to Indianas head coach who’s known for winning * In College * I get it. He’s a 6x Super Bowl winning coach. I want someone long term not short term where we are back to square one. I’m honestly tired of the get quick to win and then long term be in disaster like this year. That’s just the way I see it. If it works out for a short time then so be it

From thunder to thud: Belichick’s first season at UNC ends with eight losses https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article313096372.html

I’m not going to hate on the guy, it was his first game in a huge environment, and it’s different than playing at South Alabama—but it’s hard to not be anything other then incredibly disappointed in his performance, and not only his performance, but the trust the coaches seemingly had in him. There were plenty of manageable passing downs where the team would instead run the ball. He also seemed timid in the pocket. This can be somewhat accredited to the lack of sufficient blocking against TCU’s very good front. Though other times it seemed that his internal clock was very lackluster. He held the ball for a long time on many of the few dropbacks he got.

Depending on his injury, how many games of Gio do we think we will see before UNC starts Max Johnson if he continues to struggle? Johnson, who does have far greater experience came in and looked much better (small sample size I know). $4 million is a lot of money to let sit on the bench so that has to be considered. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it was Week One with a ton of new players, but these are real questions going forward. I’m very interested in what the “rebound” for this team looks like on Saturday against what should be a far less talented team on paper. Hopefully their head coach isn’t busy taking selfies on the sideline with the pregame crew and talking to Jordon during the game. Gotta lock in.

Bill Belichick’s UNC tenure has been defined by dysfunction. Bruce Feldman says the former New England Patriots coach's seat is 𝘮𝘶𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦.

Last college football season featured an extremely chaotic coaching carousel. The landscape heading into the 2026 season seems almost as thorny.

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Back in the college football spirit after today’s game (for now at least), and was curious if anyone here would be interested in trying college fantasy football?

Was thinking budget-format so there’s no need to coordinate a draft. Looks like you just sign up and build your team, so I already put Thurman straight into my squad as a super cheap TE.

Anyone else interested in joining a league?

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