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Schefter: Bill Belichick 'Didn't Trust' NFL to Hire Him After Snubbing Him This Year

Bill Belichick's decision to take the head coaching gig for the North Carolina Tar Heels was somewhat surprising, given he had spent his entire coaching career in the NFL.

But as ESPN's Adam Schefter reported during Sunday's SportsCenter, Belichick took the certainty of a job he was offered over the unknown of the NFL coaching market:

"Ultimately in the end, he took the bird in hand. He didn't trust the NFL—that bypassed him last year in favor of some of the coaches hired—to do the right thing and hire him this year. And again, we talked about this other day.