Bill Belichick is a college football coach. That is a sentence that is factually accurate, as Belichick has been hired as North Carolina’s new head man in a stunning move made official Wednesday.
Belichick, 72, who worked in the NFL in some capacity from 1975 through 2023 and won six Super Bowls as the head coach of the New England Patriots, has never coached in college football. He did spend some time around the sport this fall with his son Stephen, who was the defensive coordinator at the University of Washington, but he’ll learn a lot more about the differences between college and pro football soon enough.