UNC’s Belichick hire shakes up the ACC

Head coach Bill Belichick joins North Carolina after his highly succesful tenure as the New England Patriots head coach and general manager. The Tar Heels come off the back of a 6-7 record which included a last-second loss to the Jackets. // Photo courtesy of Ben McKeown, AP PhotoThe Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) welcomes a new, yet extremely experienced head coach to the University of North Carolina (UNC) Tar Heels football program: the eight-time Super Bowl Champion and three-time National Football League (NFL) Coach of the Year Bill Belichick. The UNC job is the first career opportunity for the notoriously blunt coach since parting ways with the New England Patriots in the 2024 offseason.

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