UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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heel79 said:
I know you do more than your share and are well connected but I swear the UNC fans I know, and there are a bunch, don't share the angst I see in this board. Disappointed? Yep. But willing to see this through. As for the money, I think as long as we show progress in recruiting and on the field it will not dry up. So I guess we will see.
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There’s obviously no exact way to measure fan angst but it is an interesting topic.

I was talking to my dad about the football team a few weeks ago. He’s in his late 60s, went to UNC, still a fan/buys season tickets to go to a few games a year, but he doesn’t follow the team very closely at all anymore and basically came to terms that we’d never be good at football decades ago. His take on Belichick was basically “ah well, I thought the hire was really stupid at the time but we’ve always sucked no matter who the coach is so I don’t really care”. I would bet that a good chunk of our fan base fits into that mold of jaded and apathetic about the situation.

I’m 30 years younger, and pretty much all of my friends that I went to UNC with that follow the team closely think that this whole thing is a farce and want Belichick gone yesterday.
 
heel79 said:
I know you do more than your share and are well connected but I swear the UNC fans I know, and there are a bunch, don't share the angst I see in this board. Disappointed? Yep. But willing to see this through. As for the money, I think as long as we show progress in recruiting and on the field it will not dry up. So I guess we will see.
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I think the outlook on BB falls significantly on political lines because he was, quite factually, a partisan political play wrapped up as a football coach.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I think the outlook on BB falls significantly on political lines because he was, quite factually, a partisan political play wrapped up as a football coach.
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Not strictly, my father in law is deep in the bullshit and he’s still Anti-bellichick (he blamed it on unc going woke, which was so dumb i couldn’t even argue). But i think, if your pro-Bellichick at this pt, we know who you voted for

heel79 said:
Lot of talk about money being spent. I am 68 and have been UNC football fan since I saw don McCauley run over dook defenders. Pretty much that entire time the biggest complaint was we were not committed to football financially. Then we fork out bi dollars for arguably the best coach of all time, money pours in, and we suck bad in the field. BTW, a person is paid for what they have done not what they will do. In that regard BB in line. Lombo,maybe not so much. Lombo apparently is also very good at raising money. Did it affect me? Yes, I paid a little more for eight season tix. The $13 Bud Light save me money as I now watch games sober, a bad year to debut that strategy. Also I find funny that mack was too nice and BB is too mean. Anyhow, while I am seen here as a BB apologist what I actually am is someone who wants to see this deal get a chance to succeed. If BB were fired tomorrow he will have left us a hell of a foundation with this class and finagled a commitment out of the administration..he did it with strong headwinds by the media (did anyone read DeCock's shrill masterpiece, his ability to predict the future, a composition assembled while he was seething over BBs 4 minute PC?) and folks working on the inside to take him down. This may not work. But we are beyond the point of turning around. No coachee out there and not sure many want to go to a school that fires the guy with 8 rings after 12 games.
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Not a single coach out here would avoid us firing Bellichick. There may be a few that won’t come here because of this whole farce though. Hiring Bellichick and Lombardi and running it back after it was
proven to be an unmitigated disaster proves how unserious we are
 
uncjhodges said:
Not strictly, my father in law is deep in the bullshit and he’s still Anti-bellichick (he blamed it on unc going woke, which was so dumb i couldn’t even argue). But i think, if your pro-Bellichick at this pt, we know who you voted for


Not a single coach out here would avoid us firing Bellichick. There may be a few that won’t come here because of this whole farce though. Hiring Bellichick and Lombardi and running it back after it was
proven to be an unmitigated disaster proves how unserious we are
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You think coaches want to go to a place where you get one year?
 
heel79 said:
You think coaches want to go to a place where you get one year?
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I think coaches are smart enough to realize this was a farce, will see the monetary commitment and the fact that typically if you win 8 games you get as long as you like as long as you’re not a giant asshole
 
uncjhodges said:
Not a single coach out here would avoid us firing Bellichick. There may be a few that won’t come here because of this whole farce though. Hiring Bellichick and Lombardi and running it back after it was
proven to be an unmitigated disaster proves how unserious we are
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Bingo. The rest of the country is laughing at how ridiculous the situation is. If we had pulled the plug after this season then no potential replacement coach worth their salt would have seen that as a red flag.

If there is a red flag, it would be the fact that our decision makers that they would be working under were stupid enough to hire Belichick in the first place.
 
uncjhodges said:
Not strictly, my father in law is deep in the bullshit and he’s still Anti-bellichick (he blamed it on unc going woke, which was so dumb i couldn’t even argue). But i think, if your pro-Bellichick at this pt, we know who you voted for.
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As a counterexample, I'm "it's too early to declare this an unfixable failure," but most here probably would label me as pro-Belichick. I've never voted for a pub, nor a magat, and my personal beliefs are pretty far away from anyone on that political side.
 
stankeylegjones said:
As a counterexample, I'm "it's too early to declare this an unfixable failure," but most here probably would label me as pro-Belichick. I've never voted for a pub, nor a magat, and my personal beliefs are pretty far away from anyone on that political side.
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Yeah, I dont think it is a perfect barometer but I do think it is an instructive observation. I made it because I would hazard a guess that most of the UNC fans that Heel79 hangs eith are of a pretty conservative political ilk.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Yeah, I dont think it is a perfect barometer but I do think it is an instructive observation. I made it because I would hazard a guess that most of the UNC fans that Heel79 hangs eith are of a pretty conservative political ilk.
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I have not seen a political element to it at all, truthfully, except on here. A lot of these people are UNC grads, fraternity brothers, and a lot of them are pretty liberal. Now there are also a lot of folks from the neighborhood, so to speak, largely POC who are UNC fans, not graduates, who do not know who Lee Roberts is, Preyer, etc., but just root for UNC.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Yeah, I dont think it is a perfect barometer but I do think it is an instructive observation. I made it because I would hazard a guess that most of the UNC fans that Heel79 hangs eith are of a pretty conservative political ilk.
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Going even further out on that limb, I wonder how much not wanting to fire a coach after one year and being MAGA go together around "proper respect for authority and hierarchy"?
 
uncjhodges said:
I think coaches are smart enough to realize this was a farce, will see the monetary commitment and the fact that typically if you win 8 games you get as long as you like as long as you’re not a giant asshole
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Mack typically won 8 games, wasn’t a giant asshole, and didn’t get to stay as long as he liked.
 
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