I hear ya, for sure. I always like, appreciate, and respect your views and perspectives. I definitely agree with you that ultimately we have only played two games, and thus only have two in-game data sets, from which to analyze. You're absolutely right that Belchick (or any coach of any sport at any level, for that matter, IMO) deserves more than 2 games before the book is written on his or her tenure. I totally acknowledge that.
Where I'm coming from is that it disappoints me what a cluster-you-know-what this whole thing has been since the very beginning. The fact that the Athletic Director and the Chancellor/Board of Trustees were apparently running two completely different searches, independent of one another, at the exact same time, is where this whole thing started off on the wrong foot. We apparently had multiple other candidates who reached out to Bubba expressing interest in interviewing for the job, but who then never even interviewed once they found out that the BOT/Chancellor were running around doing their own one-man search. That was always a bad look to me. It became an even worse look when the reporting revealed that it was actually Bill Belichick calling Marco Rubio, who called Thom Tillis, who called John Preyer, who called the Chancellor, that made it a one-man search. And my displeasure with that aspect has absolutely nothing to do with the political affiliations of any of the above (heck, I actually generally like Rubio and Tillis).
So then after the BOT/Chancellor makes the hire essentially without Bubba's input, Belichick then hires Michael Lombardi, whom no one at any level of football coaching or personnel management has wanted to touch with a ten foot pole in almost a full decade, and they spend December trying to single-handedly manage the roster and the transfer portal despite having zero experience or knowledge of either, because they had blanket fired every single person in the Kenan Football Center on day one and had not yet hired their replacements. Once they finally hired a staff, it was full-on nepotism, baybeee! Lombardi's son to coach quarterbacks, Bill's sons to coach defense, Freddie Kitchens to coach offense, and a whole bunch of other guys with no connections to college football.
Then, the whole Jordon Hudson offseason drama was incredibly off-putting. I guess I'm a prude, but I don't think it is a great look to have the most visible representative of the University of North Carolina galavanting around with a girlfriend 5 decades his junior, the same age as many of his current players. I thought that both Bill and the University did a really poor job of reigning in his personal life, which was off-putting to me NOT because I care that Bill is dating a 24-year-old (I truly don't), but because Bill's dating of a 24-year-old and allowing a bunch of off-field drama to permeate the football program displayed a stark contrast from the no-nonsense, no distractions, all business all the time demenaor that we *thought* we were paying $10 million to hire.
All of the above doesn't mean that Bill can't or won't succeed here, and NONE of my criticism of him is an indicator that I don't want him to succeed here (because I certainly do). It just means that for more than 9 months now, we've had red flag after red flag after red flag- and NOW we have two games under our belts and the product on the field looks every bit as awful as it did under much of Mack Brown 2.0 or the end of Larry Fedora. It doesn't feel like we are on a good trajectory to me, so that's why I'm critical. Obviously, I'd much, much rather be wrong than right.
