Bill Belichick's North Carolina debut ended in a 48-14 loss to TCU, the worst opener in UNC history and the most points a Belichick-coached team has allowed. The defeat ranked among the most lopsided of his career and generated widespread schadenfreude. The result intensified scrutiny of Belichick's persona, including his hoodie, press demeanor, and the Jordon Hudson relationship. University leaders pursued Belichick as a costly top-down remedy to confront NIL and transfer dynamics. Belichick accepted the role despite unclear motives, positioning himself as the institutional solution while immediate results failed to materialize.
As wary as he has typically been about the dangers of novelty, Bill Belichick must have known that the extremely public pantsing that he and his new team endured on Monday night was a possibility. But even those among you who wanted his first game as the capo di tutti capi of North Carolina athletics to be more comeuppance than celebration surely didn't dare dream that this was coming.
The beating that Belichick and his North Carolina Tar Heels took Monday night at the hands, legs and feet of TCU was historically noteworthy-at 48-14 it was the worst UNC opener ever, the most points a Belichick-coached team has ever allowed, and the third most lopsided loss in his long coaching career. For those not inclined toward the magic of Chapel Hill, the game was also a veritable Rose Parade of schadenfreude.
The long-ago tiresome hoodie-as-prop, the stage glower, the sub-monotone answers to any question in any press conference, and as a new twist, the Jordon Hudson business-qua-personal relationship that made him not just a sad old stereotype but an unsettling one-that's what Carolina signed on for, because the septuagenarians who run the school's money felt that Mack Brown was too old and set in his ways to keep up with the changing seascape of college football.
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