UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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stankeylegjones said:
Oh, I totally agree with you, in the grand scheme of things, this statement is WAY down on the list. I do think you are over-evaluating the talent on this roster, there's very little. I'd be willing to wager that Wake has more, especially in the key positions.

If you feel like the coaching, team, etc., hasn't improved, why do you think BB has earned another year?
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That’s a totally fair question. In a perfect world, I would prefer that he doesn’t get another year, because I would prefer that we go higher an actual collegiate coaching staff that has an actual plan and a blueprint for how they plan to turn the program around in 1-2 years, instead of the several-year rebuild that Belichick and Lombardi claim they are pursuing. But I also completely understand that it’s not feasible to expect the PTBs at UNC who hired him to 1. want to cut bait after only a season, and 2. come up with the $20M+ that it would require to buy out him and his staff. And I also know that this hiring cycle is going to be total chaos and I’m not sure UNC would fare well in it. Plus, even if I don’t like him as a coach nor agree with his philosophy, I also objectively understand why a coach probably deserves a second chance to rectify their errors.
 


I personally like Joe Ovies and Joe Giglio (though I totally understand why some UNC fans don’t) but I think he nails it here. It’s not that any of us should have reasonably expected UNC to win an ACC title in year 1 under Belichick. But we should look a lot more competitive and a lot better coached than we’ve looked for 90%+ of the season to date. With how easy our schedule is, the bare minimum expectation this season should have been bowl eligibility- not 4-8. Wake Forest, by contrast, is probably going to finish 9-3 with an offense that mostly stinks and a defense that’s mostly good.
 
IllegalMotion9999 said:
What was really weird was the UNC offense near the end of the first half and with about 6 minutes left to go in the game. It was as if the UNC offense did not have a hurry up, two minute, four minute, whatever offense at all. It was as if the OC had absolutely no clue as to what to call. No sense of urgency. Hard to watch this far into the season.
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Yeah…..that level of incompetence was surprising.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
No he hasn’t. Pablo was the one pushing the narrative that BB would never coach a game at UNC back in May. Fuck Pablo.
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Has Bill Belichick, the NFL HOF coach Bill Belichick, coached a game at UNC?

Or, is an aged Bill Belichick collecting $10 million a year from UNC (and our shitty GM is getting $1.5 million a year) and the Belichick and Lombardi kids are well-paid?
 
Zoo_View said:
The schemes just didn’t work against the powerhouses that are Wake, UVA, Cal, UCF, a weak-ass Clemson. The players the 33rd NFL Team chose didn’t work.
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Clearly. But why? Is it the schemes themselves? The lack of talent? All of the above? Are they sound in the approach/technique, but just not good enough to execute? Or they out of position? And so on.
 
Man I’m so over people trying to gaslight us about the team “improving”. There were maybe 2 or 3 other power conference teams in the entire country that were worse than UNC for the first half of the season. Pretty easy to improve when the baseline is being complete dogshit.

Also, no reasonable person thinks that Belichick has actually done anything to “earn” another season. The only reason he’ll be the coach next year is because the people calling the shots for UNC athletics are arrogant morons.
 
stankeylegjones said:
Clearly. But why? Is it the schemes themselves? The lack of talent? All of the above? Are they sound in the approach/technique, but just not good enough to execute? Or they out of position? And so on.
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The why is that Belichick has clearly lost his fastball as a coach and the person that is in charge of picking players for him is extremely incompetent (not to mention grossly overpaid).

How is this so confusing for you to wrap your head around? It’s not rocket science.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
So the correct response to rumors that your head coach is leaving is to ignore them? I have zero problem with publicly squashing BS rumors.
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Who the fuck wants to hire Bill Belichick in the NFL? NO ONE.

Who the fuck in college football wants to hire aged Bill Belichick and his merry band of incompetents?

Lee “The d00kie” Roberts and John Preyer. Who collectively have no experience in college football. Their brilliance is being MAGAts despite possibly having good educations.

A lot of big jobs are open. Who is asking about Bill Belichick? LSU, Penn State, Florida, and others are not.

IIRC, his buy-out to leave is PEANUTS. His buy-out to be fired is HUGE.

NO ONE wants Bill Belichick. For good reasons. Chiefly, no Tom Brady.
 
Peppers49 said:
The why is that Belichick has clearly lost his fastball as a coach and the person that is in charge of picking players for him is extremely incompetent (not to mention grossly overpaid).

How is this so confusing for you to wrap your head around? It’s not rocket science.
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You might be right about BB aging out.

That same incompetent person you mention (Lombardi) has done a really good job with the high school recruiting cycle so far. Out of everyone, Steve, Diaco, and Lombardi clearly have been doing a good job this year.
 
stankeylegjones said:
I get your stance, but surely you would say that unknown in who's going to be the coaches when you arrive on campus would be a negative when you're deciding where to go to school, right?

Also, surely you'd say that the team, while still not good, has improved since the beginning of the year, right?
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After crapping our drawers against the MIGHTY, MIGHTY Demon Deacons you want to assert that UNC has improved since TCU bitch-slapped us in the opener?

Assert away.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
We have the 129th ranked scoring offense out of 136 teams against the 91st SOS. You'd have to convince me we don't have top 70 talent on the roster. So the delta between talent and production can only come down to coaching.
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You agree with the OP that the problem is lack of passion on the part of the players? Or you feel it is entirely coaching? I feel like the talent computation should be weighted massively by QB, for the entire team, but especially O. And I feel like bad playcalling which doesn't optimize your talent's abilities can drag a team into the basement. Given this QB and scheme I don't think more effort or passion from the players would change anything. Where would you rank Gio, i'd put our overall O not far behind his ranking just because QB is engine.
 
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Stankey
I love your fandom
we suck so bad it is sad
Unlike some of my friends, I don't watch much football-but I have religously watched Carolina football however for decades
If Finace Bro wants a good team -work hard at transitioning after this year for a Coach that can hang on to some of our admttedly good recruits-and get some more Cut our losses
 
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mpaer said:
Stankey
I love your fandom
we suck so bad it is sad
Unlike some of my friends, I don't watch much football-but I have religously watched Carolina football however for decades
If Finace Bro wants a good team -work hard at transitioning after this year for a Coach that can hang on to some of our admttedly good recruits-and get some more Cut our losses
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Flying Sci-Fi GIF by Feliks Tomasz Konczakowski

:ROFLMAO:
 
stankeylegjones said:
You might be right about BB aging out.

That same incompetent person you mention (Lombardi) has done a really good job with the high school recruiting cycle so far. Out of everyone, Steve, Diaco, and Lombardi clearly have been doing a good job this year.
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We are recruiting fine...at about the level we normally do or slightly higher. I wouldn't say "really good". We have quadrupled football spending for a slight increase in recruiting performance. That does not seem to me to be very laudable.
 
UNC is currently #129 out of 136 in Total Offense, just 2 power conference teams are below us. Given the easy schedule, that is astoundingly bad.

Wisconsin somehow averages 40 fewer yards per game than we do.

Points per game also has us #129 out of 136 with just two P4 teams below us.
 
wmheel1287 said:
We are recruiting fine...at about the level we normally do or slightly higher. I wouldn't say "really good". We have quadrupled football spending for a slight increase in recruiting performance. That does not seem to me to be very laudable.
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I guess I'm looking at it from the pov that they're 15th in team rankings while going through a shit-show of a year. Maybe that is not the way to look at it, but I do think it's a good showing from Lombardi.
 
If UNC ends up 4-8……losing its last 3 games to its 3 biggest in-state rivals….how does this vaunted recruiting class hold up?

How much do these high school recruit’s contribute in 2026?
 
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