UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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JCTarheel82 said:
The parallels between the current state of our football program and the Trump 2.0 administration are plentiful and alarming.
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Because it is literally the same people. The Bellichick hire was always more of a political power play than a football hire for the folks that orchestrated it.
 
stankeylegjones said:
IC has been on point with info for a long time. It just seems like with this staff/program they're getting their info from folks not close to the situation, or from folks pushing false info (for whatever reason). Having said that, it could also be the other media (in this case Thamel) who're getting their info from folks not close to the program or from folks pushing false info (for whatever reason). Ben posts in the Thamel thread reads like it's a done deal, just not "announced" yet. So, who knows 🤷‍♀️
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Why would anybody pay for info thats mainly guesses? If its good info it will be on numerous platforms for free within minutes. Me thinks its nothing more than cultish behavior, homie
 
No idea why we would pursue Petrino. Add to that his complete lack of moral character and I am not sure what kind of culture we are trying to build at UNC.
 
Mundial said:
No idea why we would pursue Petrino. Add to that his complete lack of moral character and I am not sure what kind of culture we are trying to build at UNC.
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We hired him because he has been a really good OC at several stops
I am not arguing we Should have-but i know why we did
 
stankeylegjones said:
IC has been on point with info for a long time. It just seems like with this staff/program they're getting their info from folks not close to the situation, or from folks pushing false info (for whatever reason). Having said that, it could also be the other media (in this case Thamel) who're getting their info from folks not close to the program or from folks pushing false info (for whatever reason). Ben posts in the Thamel thread reads like it's a done deal, just not "announced" yet. So, who knows 🤷‍♀️
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They as right as a broken clock. Lmao
 
akillesheel said:
on the article titled "latest football offseason scoop" from a few weeks ago. the section on Bryce Baker notes that it appears the staff doesn't think much of him but hasn't been trying to push him out... "And, when speaking to sources close to the situation, they indicate he’s happy in Chapel Hill."
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Good catch.

Maybe that means he likes the social life in Chapel Hill :)

I had read that but must have forgotten about it. I guess that does qualify as an official IC report that he's happy.
 
mpaer said:
We hired him because he has been a really good OC at several stops
I am not arguing we Should have-but i know why we did
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We might also be hiring him because he is the only “name” offensive coach willing to be OC under Bill Belichick.

Belichick’s staff in 2024 and early 2025 was SLOW to come together and it wasn’t exactly an all-star list of coaches. Petrino differs from the rest of UNC’s coaches in that he’s excelled as a college coach if you overlook the character and burned bridges aspects.

Like Belichick in 2024 and much of Belichick’s 2024-25 staff, who else is trying to hire Bobby Petrino?
 
Zoo_View said:
We might also be hiring him because he is the only “name” offensive coach willing to be OC under Bill Belichick.

Belichick’s staff in 2024 and early 2025 was SLOW to come together and it wasn’t exactly an all-star list of coaches. Petrino differs from the rest of UNC’s coaches in that he’s excelled as a college coach if you overlook the character and burned bridges aspects.

Like Belichick in 2024 and much of Belichick’s 2024-25 staff, who else is trying to hire Bobby Petrino?
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This.
 
stankeylegjones said:
"Sources tell On3 that North Carolina quarterback Gio Lopez has re-signed and will return to Chapel Hill in 2026."

Well fuck :(
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What does "re-signed" mean, wasn't it a two-yr thing to begin with? Also, given that he broke his leg a few weeks ago, he might not even be healthy for Spring, i don't see anyone else giving him much money, he doesn't have much motivation to do anything but stay and be a good teammate to help support the new guys.

ETA - Maybe i'm wrong about the injury and it was just a really bad ankle injury, don't know, google indicates maybe ankle, but somewhere i thought i heard break. But this would be his third "lower-body" injury this yr, putting a question-mark on his durability IMO. They'd be crazy to no get a guy from the portal vs beginning training camp with just a healthy Newkirk and hobbled Gio.
 
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Thinking more about this supposed Petrino hire, and it continues to strike me how UNC, more than any other school out there, is obsessed with hiring the has-been retread whose prime we missed by a decade or more (but whose success in their prime is our whole reason for hiring them now). We did it with Mack Brown, Gene Chizik, and now Bill Belichick and Bobby Petrino (and Chip Kelly was supposedly the runner-up). It's like we have some bizarre tic that doesn't enable us to ever look *ahead* and try to hire the coach that may be good over the *next* 10 years- no, we have to hire the guy who was good a decade ago and has since fallen off.

Petrino was an offensive mastermind at Auburn, Louisville, and Arkansas in the 2000's and early 2010's. But getting fired from Arkansas in 2012, outside of one elite season with Lamar Jackson at Louisville in 2017, he's been...fine, but that's it. Nothing out of this world. Since that Lamar Jackson season, he's been fired from Louisville the very next year, then left Missouri State after a losing season, then spent 21 days at UNLV before going to Texas A&M, spent one season at A&M before being replaced, and then the last two years at Arkansas where he was also let go with the staff this season. To be fair, he did very significantly improve Arkansas's offense, but this season especially their offensive numbers are a bit inflated due to the massive amount of time they spent trailing in games and having to throw out of necessity. He's absolutely going to be lightyears better as an offensive schemer and playcaller than what we had last year, though certainly that's a painfully low bar to clear.

Obviously I'm not without my own bias. I'm certainly not a fan of this Belichick experiment, haven't been from day one, and want it to end as soon as possible. So I certainly recognize my own bias in seeing almost everything that our program is currently doing through a negative lens. I own that. But I am not being negative for the sake or enjoyment of being negative- I just truly disagree with pretty much everything about the current direction of the football program that I love, and for better or worse, I have this forum to voice those frustrations.
 
gregh1 said:
What does "re-signed" mean, wasn't it a two-yr thing to begin with? Also, given that he broke his leg a few weeks ago, he might not even be healthy for Spring, i don't see anyone else giving him much money, he doesn't have much motivation to do anything but stay and be a good teammate to help support the new guys.

ETA - Maybe i'm wrong about the injury and it was just a really bad ankle injury. But this would be his third "lower-body" injury this yr, putting a question-mark on his durability IMO. They'd be crazy to no get a guy from the portal vs beginning training camp with just a healthy Newkirk and hobbled Gio.
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Yeah, I would like some clarification on the term “re-sign” too.

Assuming he means re-sign as in renegotiate, why would he re-sign/renegotiate for less money? If not, why would he get more money if he is projected to be a backup?

Maybe it wasn't a two-year or maybe there was/is a clause? Hopefully they're still trying to bring in a better QB.
 
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CFordUNC said:
Thinking more about this supposed Petrino hire, and it continues to strike me how UNC, more than any other school out there, is obsessed with hiring the has-been retread whose prime we missed by a decade or more (but whose success in their prime is our whole reason for hiring them now). We did it with Mack Brown, Gene Chizik, and now Bill Belichick and Bobby Petrino (and Chip Kelly was supposedly the runner-up). It's like we have some bizarre tic that doesn't enable us to ever look *ahead* and try to hire the coach that may be good over the *next* 10 years- no, we have to hire the guy who was good a decade ago and has since fallen off.

Petrino was an offensive mastermind at Auburn, Louisville, and Arkansas in the 2000's and early 2010's. But getting fired from Arkansas in 2012, outside of one elite season with Lamar Jackson at Louisville in 2017, he's been...fine, but that's it. Nothing out of this world. Since that Lamar Jackson season, he's been fired from Louisville the very next year, then left Missouri State after a losing season, then spent 21 days at UNLV before going to Texas A&M, spent one season at A&M before being replaced, and then the last two years at Arkansas where he was also let go with the staff this season. To be fair, he did very significantly improve Arkansas's offense, but this season especially their offensive numbers are a bit inflated due to the massive amount of time they spent trailing in games and having to throw out of necessity. He's absolutely going to be lightyears better as an offensive schemer and playcaller than what we had last year, though certainly that's a painfully low bar to clear.

Obviously I'm not without my own bias. I'm certainly not a fan of this Belichick experiment, haven't been from day one, and want it to end as soon as possible. So I certainly recognize my own bias in seeing almost everything that our program is currently doing through a negative lens. I own that. But I am not being negative for the sake or enjoyment of being negative- I just truly disagree with pretty much everything about the current direction of the football program that I love, and for better or worse, I have this forum to voice those frustrations.
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Brother you do not have to qualify this take by acknowledging your own bias haha. Everyone outside of our fan base that follows the sport and has an outside looking in perspective has been saying this about our football program since we hired Mack and through the Belichick hire.
 
Peppers49 said:
Brother you do not have to qualify this take by acknowledging your own bias haha. Everyone outside of our fan base that follows the sport and has an outside looking in perspective has been saying this about our football program since we hired Mack and through the Belichick hire.
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we are a laughing stock
 
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