Well, he's dating a cheerleader now so I guess he'll fit in just fine.Times are changing in CFB.
Schools with money will be the new masters
Bill Belichick set to become North Carolina’s head coach in football stunner
Bill Belichick is going back to school.nypost.com
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Oh good lord….how did he do at Cleveland? Then he lost one player at NE and become an average coach….yet he’ll win a NC with half the talent. Wow, talk about a bad take.
He could be a disaster and set UNC back a decade
There is no one on the planet who knows more about coaching football than Bill Belicheck. He may or may not win 6 championships at this level like he did in the NFL but the fact that some of you want to discount his likelihood of success is amusing. He will be the biggest celebrity college coach since Joe Paterno. As Deion Sanders has proved, the name recognition of NFL success alone is enough to attract highly rated players. Belicheck won’t even have to recruit. He can assemble a competent staff to hit the road and let the top players come to him.
This guy should look for a team in LA, Chicago or New York so he will be immediately released every time he gets arrested.
Yeah, I'm not sure I get the negativity toward this move--they got Belichick who was supposed to be the top coach on the NFL market
No one knows how he will do. I’m not sure he has the right interpersonal makeup for college kids, but I do believe his plan/ approach that has been publicized so far makes sense considering NIL and the transfer portal. College football has essentially become a farm system for the NFL. It seems he will run NC like a pro team. He certainly knows how to prepare players for Pro ball.
Agreed--it's going to be interesting to see how his personality plays into this BUT if you want to play in the NFL you better get use to guys like him. Very curious to see how it plays out--will either go great or be a disaster. But it's UNC so it's not like they're risking a great program
He was on Pat McAfee the other day talking about his plan. He was pretty clear that he is going to go down the "prime time" path that U of Colorado blazed. He wants to make NC a school that prepares kids to play in the NFL. Oh sure, there is the education part but that is the tool not the purpose. Apparently, he went to the NC selection committee with a 268-page plan. Part of it was that most college coaches are saddled with the pretense that college football is somehow about college education. That a college team unburdened with that pretense can make a lot of money for the school and help the kids prepare for a career in football (at whatever level they choose to participate).
While I definitely agree, the question that remains for me is will he be able to attract and retain the type of player that will listen and buy in to what he is 'selling'.
The real flaw in that approach is that a small % of his roster will actually be pro material, what happens to those kids that don’t make it to the NFL and have no degree?
Same thing that happens now to a large percentage of kids that don't get a degree despite their opportunity. That's on them not the coach.
Kids flocking to play for him is a big assumption. Don't be so sure. Plus I'm not convinced he is not over the hill and the guy who will think circles around every other coach as some want to anoint him. This is not 2007 and having the GOAT at QB for the next decade. At the end of the day this is more style than substance in my opinion. We know the powers that be in college football and UNC is not one of them. Belichick does not change that.
Perhaps, but currently there are still some coaches who prioritize education and graduate most of their players. It will be a shame when such priorities no longer exist in college athletics. I am actually kind of surprised that NC has bought into this approach. I was under the impression that they were a strong academic institution.
Don't remember this?
You're all putting too much into him having Brady--he's considered one of the greatest football coaches of all time and this isn't the era in which Bill Walsh went to Stanford--he can pay kids
Who are these coaches that prioritize it and still win enough to keep their job?
Universities can be strong academically and still have a football factory attitude. In fact which one are not? USC, Michigan, UCLA are all top academic institutions that have the same attitude as UNC. They would like to see their players graduate but the players are not student athletes. NIL and money are king. PSU is the same way but no where close to as highly rated academically as those schools. Sadly Joe's vision and plan is long gone and forgotten except by old loyal PSU supporters like me.
It’s *mostly* on the kids, but coaches can create an environment where earning a degree is valued and can do things to help their student-athletes succeed academically. Ethical coaches do this. I hope we never have a coach who doesn’t care whether his players finish their degrees. Someone like that belongs in the pros, IMO.
That's fair--personally, I don't believe Franklin cares at all. I think it's just a sales technique for him. But that may be unfair and I could be wrong. Never felt sincere to me.
Yes, I did forget about this, I stand corrected.Don't remember this?
University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal - Wikipedia
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The University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal involved alleged fraud and academic dishonesty committed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).[1] Following a lesser scandal that began in 2010 involving academic fraud and improper benefits with the university's football program, two hundred questionable classes offered by the university's African and Afro-American Studies department (commonly known as AFAM) came to light. As a result, the university was placed on probation by its accrediting agency.
An internal investigation by the university released in 2011 and another investigation commissioned by former North Carolina governor Jim Martin in 2012 found numerous academic and ethical issues with the AFAM department, including unauthorized grade changes and faculty signatures, a disproportionate number of independent study class offerings relative to other departments, and an over-representation of student-athletes enrolled in such classes. In 2014, a series of charges and counter-charges began between university officials and former learning specialist Mary Willingham, including disputes about statistics and methods of analysis by Willingham alleging that certain student-athletes were not academically qualified for college.[2] As a result of these revelations, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed the university on probation for one year, endangering the university's regional accreditation. Losing accreditation would have resulted in the loss of any federal funding or support.
