Bill Belichick’s UNC GM weighs in: With the genuinely surprising news that former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has decided to take on the vacant University of North Carolina football job, football fans were left to ponder exactly why the 72-year-old eight-time Super Bowl winner had elected to head to the collegiate level (where he has no official experience).
“This came together because Bill wanted to go back to college,” said Michael Lombardi, Belichick’s newly-appointed general manager at UNC. Lombardi, who was with Belichick as a front office executive in both Cleveland and New England, tried to explain why the legendary coach had made such an unforeseen decision.