Bill Belichick received the match ball Saturday after the 20-3 triumph of North Carolina against Charlotte. He marked his first victory as a college coach after winning 333 games (qualifiers included) in the NFL.
As good as the performance of the Tar Heels rebound must have felt, it is certainly possible that it had a different result of the weekend even more: Las Vegas 20, New England 13.
Belichick is a big of all time in two things: winning football matches and wearing resentments to the most sharp levels. One tends to feed the other. Belichick is often at his best when he has a villain, real or imagined, to prove wrong.
This is why Fans of the UNC should be encouraged that Belichick is still so dripping with anger against his former NFL franchise that he would use juvenile puffs such as the ban on the scouts of the patriots of the heels football building.
“It is obvious that I am not welcome in their establishment,” said Belichick on Saturday. “So they are not welcome in ours.”
This, to be clear, is comically ridiculous. The easy joke, based on the UNC humiliation 48-10 against TCU in the opening of the season, is that if Belichick really wanted to condemn the Pats, he would make them write a pile of his guys.
Really, however, it is just another sign that Belichick did not forgive the owner of New England, Robert Kraft, for their split after a 4-13 campaign in 2023. It is possible that he blames part of the lack of interest of the NFL to hire him in Kraft to speak to his colleagues owners.
In fact, it is not easy that Belichick is prohibited from the installation of patriots.
New Angleterre coach Mike Trinel, a former Belichick player, said on Monday that Belichick was still welcome and underlined the presence of Belichick during a ceremony in June 2024 in honor of Tom Brady.
“Since his departure as a chief coach here, he’s back,” said Rébel. “I’m going to leave that.”
UNC hired Belichick to breathe life into his often decent, but rarely large program. In doing so, he obtains the complete BB experience: good, bad, soap. Maybe even a winning team.
There will be no dull moments. Carolina should understand this, however, about her new coach. Belichick tends to eat quarrels.
Belichick’s motivation to build the Patriots came, in part, to show that he was more than the defensive coordinator of Bill Bâlls. The battles with the SPYGATE and DEFLATEGATE LEAGE Office sharpened it to help win six Super Bowls.
There have always been small gestures of challenge, cutting the sleeves of his sweatshirt after the NFL mandated coaches wear Reebok clothes on the sidelines, for example. He is counter -culture, even if he has become culture – or an unexpected fashion influencer.
His fight with Kraft is only the last.
Beyond no longer being the trainer of the patriots, Belichick was often poorly represented in a “dynasty” of the dynasty “of the dynasty”, whose distribution rights are held by Kraft.
The answer was the classic Belichick.
His autobiography “The Art of Winning” published last summer did not contain a single mention of Kraft, his 24 -year -old boss. He and his partner Jordon Hudson also engaged in a brand war with the patriots on certain sentences (“do your job”, for example) that the team currently has. The American Patent and Brands Bureau, compared to Mike Rothstein d’Espn, refused Belichick’s requests.
Then there were Belichick’s comments at the Boston Globe on the positive points of being an university coach.
“There is no owner, there is no son of the owner, there is no ceiling, everything that goes with marketing and everything else, which I am everything for that,” said Belichick. “But it’s much less what it was at this level. …
“I would say that when we spent our best years in New England, we had fewer people and more of a direct vision. And as it developed, it has become more difficult to succeed.”
The intrigue of the palace on the largest dynasty of the NFL Rage for years, involving in particular the Triumvirate of Belichick, Brady and Kraft, the owner who never hesitated to try to take projectors. It’s always interesting. The blame can change due to the perspective. Credit too.
Last week, Kraft, at least publicly, tried to offer an olive branch when he told WBZ-TV that he wanted a statue of Belichick outside the Gillette Stadium, alongside Brady.
“When Bill’s coach career ends, we look forward to sitting with him and doing a statue to be right next to Tommy,” said Kraft.
Apparently, Belichick was not moved.
None of this has an obvious impact on ACC’s victory, which is the objective of Belichick’s current employment. That said, it does not necessarily harm the cause.
One of the risks of the hiring of a 73 -year -old man as a coach for the first time is that he would consider work as something to occupy his time, work with his children and have fun. This was above all the case for the former coaches of the NFL who land in the NCAA, and it rarely works.
Belichick’s bitterness towards patriots since their scouts are excluded from Chapel Hill is at least a sign of something different. Belichick knows that the shots at Foxborough do not carry a lot of weight if the UNC loses. Living well, after all, is the best revenge.
Belichick could be relentlessly concentrated on the damage of university football playoffs … if only to show Kraft.
Who cares about motivation? The results are what matters.
And imagine if, along the way, he learns to hate Duke or Dabo as much.
