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Tar Heels from North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi doubled down on his stance that Bill Belichick has no intention of leaving the program for the NFL.
Belichick was rumored to be interested in several NFL jobs that opened up in the weeks after he decided to jump to college for the first time in his career. Belichick replaced Mack Brown as head coach at North Carolina after a decade with New England Patriots.
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Lombardi, who joined Belichick in the program, has repeatedly said Belichick will not leave the Tar Heels. He reiterated this in an interview on Monday with OutKick’s “The Ricky Cobb Show.”
“I think one thing everyone can agree on, whether you’re a fan of what Bill did in New England or a hater because he beat you in New England, the one thing we can all agree on is that Bill really smart,” he said. “Bill knows the NFL landscape better than most fans. And if Bill thought there was a job that attracted him, he wouldn’t have moved to North Carolina.
“He wasn’t looking for a job. He wasn’t picking up unemployment. He wasn’t hoping someone would hire him. He knew there were great opportunities if he wanted to go to the NFL. What we also knew is the NFL is a slippery slope in the sense that there’s a lot of politics that goes on, you answer to a lot of different people, there’s an agenda within the buildings.”
Lombardi used a line from one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time to describe why Belichick wouldn’t return to the NFL.
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“Bill Walsh told me in 1984 when there were 28 teams in the National Football League, ‘You know, we’re only competing against eight teams here, kid.’ He was right then and he’s right today,” he said. “And I think that line right there sums up why Bill is in North Carolina. Not all teams are built to win.
“Not all teams are chasing the Super Bowl. Not all teams want to do that. They want to win their way, not the right way. I think that’s why North Carolina became so attractive to him, because here we can build a program the right way.”
Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordan Hudsonalso claimed the 72-year-old head coach will remain in Carolina blue.
“Pictured: Two people openly committed to @uncfootball,” she captioned the Instagram photo.
Belichick has been on the recruiting trail in recent weeks and landed a high-profile defensive tackle earlier this month.
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