“Thank you,” he began.
“Hopefully this press conference will go a little better than the last one I had.”
Even a quarter century later, he’s lost zero inches off his fastball.
I had some good years in the NFL, so that was OK.
But this is really a dream come true."
I love what I do.
I love coaching."
He’s a transformative figure.
Nothing less than the greatest football mind of all time.
Someone who has not only pulled off more championships and more playoff wins than any other NFL coach.
But the architect of some of the greatest game plans the world has ever seen.
So that’s all well and good.
A basketball school getting its football program on the national map with the stroke of a pen.
More power to us UNC fans, new and old.
Look at the past year.
Robert Kraft, whose life and legacy was forever altered by Belichick, fired him in January.
Only one out of seven teams with openings showed interested in hiring him.
Belichick was entertaining in his myriad media roles, but the league seemed to move on without him.
Owners spoke of him respectfully, but not desirably.
When he agreed to terms with North Carolina, it was not only because of a new challenge.
“This is a big f— you to the NFL,” another Belichick confidant says.
Let’s address a few things.
They provided footage from Kraft Productions and so on.
No one hasthatmuch of a grudge.
But that’s me burying the lede.
This is welcome news for us all, Belichick fans and Tar Heels fans alike.
That entire megacorporation moved heaven and earth to try and stop him from succeeding, and failed.
For all they took from him, he just kept winning.
And yet still he was willing to put up with their horseshit.
But they all turned their backs on him anyway.
And he’s seething with resentment.
They made him angry.
