always a bad fit<\/a> as a college coach, a role where, unlike the NFL, your public demeanor is a big part of the job,\u201d DeCock wrote.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s it going to cost North Carolina to move on? What\u2019s it going to take for Belichick to save face? What\u2019s the price of a reset button? Whatever it costs, it\u2019s time to pay it. Whatever has to happen behind the scenes, it\u2019s time to do it. They broke it. Now they\u2019ll have to buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Or to continue to tolerate it, hopeful there\u2019s a light switch Belichick and his consigliere, Mike Lombardi, can accidentally find in the darkness. Lombo\u2019s plan to bloat the roster with freshmen is a bold choice. They need better players. That means finding the right ones, picking the right ones, and recruiting the right ones.<\/p>\n
At the college level, it\u2019s about quality of players. North Carolina was unable under Belichick and Lombardi to get enough good ones for 2025. They\u2019ll get another chance to do it in 2026, apparently. (That said, an argument could be made to require Belichick to find a new G.M. for the second try.)<\/p>\n
If it doesn\u2019t work 2026, why would anyone want to see whether 2027 will be any different? Currently, some have seen enough to conclude it won\u2019t work in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Bill Belichick arrived at North Carolina, the question was, \u201cHow long will he stay?\u201d After a 4-8…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":420215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-420214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}