The greatest coach in NFL history may have found his next coaching job.
At the college level.
Inside Carolina has confirmed that six-time Super Bowl winning head coach, Bill Belichick, interviewed for the head coaching vacancy at the University of North Carolina.
The Tar Heels fired Mack Brown after a disappointing 6-6 season in Brown’s second stint with the university, and 16th season overall.
The 73-year-old was shown the door at the end of November, leading UNC to get a head start on their coaching search.
It is now clear as to why they wanted to get a jump on their search.
They have their eyes set on a very big fish.
It doesn’t get much bigger than Belichick.
Having won six Super Bowls as head coach of the New England Patriots, the most in NFL history, Belichick and the Patriots parted ways after last season.
Belichick went through the coaching cycle before the start of the 2024 season, but didn’t land anything and decided to take a year off and step into the media spotlight.
He has appeared weekly on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show, along with the Manningcast during Monday Night Football and can also be found on the CW Network’s Inside the NFL.
In other words, he hasn’t been a hard man to find.
It was assumed Belichick would take the year off to recharge, relax and then land a head coaching job in the NFL before the 2025 season.
There was no indication he had any interest at the college level.
The report out of Chapel Hill clearly says otherwise.
A report, by all accounts, is quite surprising.
Belichick is 72-years-old. With the way that college athletics has changed in terms of the transfer portal and NIL, it is a 24/7 job.
The NFL isn’t a 365-day job like college football has become, so it leaves the question, why Belichick would want a heavier workload at this point in his career and life.
Not to mention, Belichick has never had experience coaching at the college level.
It seems like an odd fit.
His son, Stephen, is currently the defensive coordinator at the University of Washington, so his son may be able to give his dad some pointers if he enters the chaotic world of college athletics.
However, at this point, it still seems Belichick is prime to take an NFL job and try to surpass Don Shula’s record of most wins as a head coach.
Shula has 328, Belichick has 302.
If Belichick is wanting to one day surpass Shula, expect him on an NFL sideline in 2025, and not in Chapel Hill.
