He’s still his father’s son.
He wants to be pulling some raw roster bubble guy aside and giving him some minor coaching point.
Simply put, he’s a football coach.
And being something other than a football coach was a crime against nature.
And the football world is a much better place with him in it.
regardless of where those sidelines are.
That does not necessarily mean no teams were conditionally interested in the second-winningest coach in NFL history.
It does mean that North Carolina offered a specific structure the NFL does not.
That confluence of challenge and freedom seemed to allure Belichick, voices across the NFL believed.
Belichick has already accomplished plenty at the pro level.
He can be more of a change agent in college than he can in the NFL.
Thats not going to be the case in the NFL.
To summarize: Belichick wants to coach football more than he wants to coach professional football.
To get hired by a franchise only to have to deal with layers of bureaucracy.
Nothing, not even beating Don Shula, is worth all that.
What North Carolina offers is “challenge and freedom.”
Autonomy to build a program, teach the game, and guide his players into NFL careers.
Which is all he wants.
Now he just gets to coach.
A respected movie and sex symbol who could make any movie he wanted.
And he became a true champion of the sport.
And on the spot he improvised a song that he promised would hit the top of the charts.
He just didn’t need that any more.
He’d had all the platinum he ever wanted, and decided to spend his time exploring new genres.
In doing so, he became the inspiration for the James Earl Jones character inField of Dreams.
But you know what?
Even becoming a tenured professor just so he could stay put and do what truly made him happy.
So this is him turning his back on the NFL.
And turning his career back to what he loves most.
Just don’t make the mistake of thinking he’s done with winning.
It’s been less than 24 hours and he’s already building his empire:
Be afraid, ACC.
