We are all in agreement that Belichick is going to fail, right?

Preface: UNC football hasn’t really been a bastion of success ever really save for a few brief stretches, so maybe they are just looking for a splashy hire to sell tickets and build excitement and get some .500ish seasons together and be happy with that. But I don’t think that’s what Bill wants. He wants what he’s always wanted: control and perfection.

He’s not doing this to help UNC. He just can’t call it quits and he wants to satisfy his ego. He wants power and control and he wanted back in the NFL but nobody wanted him, so he’s grabbing for that power at UNC, since he can’t get back and get it in the NFL now. He wants to coach adults that he has control over with contracts not teenagers that have to be monitored and babysat and that can leave whenever they want but this is the only route he has to get back into high level football.

Much of his offensive success was due to having the best QB in the world. He’s not going to have that at UNC. Is he really going to be the selling point to push high level kids to UNC when college is full of successful younger coaches?

Some of his great NE defenses had mature veterans all over the field. How’s he going to react when teenagers can’t learn his plays quick enough, or miss assignments on the field?

Adding to that, he’s known for putting skill players in the doghouse for non-egregious things. Is he going to do this with less-mature teenagers with fragile egos that will bolt at the first sign of getting their feelings hurt or losing playing time? They aren’t locked in like NFL players that just have to suck it up and try to get better. They can just tell him “ok f you, I’m out.” Can’t see him being able to handle that well and having no control over that whatsoever.

Everyone keeps saying he’s going to be able to hire people to do all the other jobs he doesn’t want to do. Does he have this great track record of making hires in the NFL? Part of his downfall was hiring Matt Patricia to be OC, and after seeing it fail, wanting to bring him back for another year.

Adding to the delegation topic, people keep saying he’s going to delegate pretty much everything to others (NIL, recruiting, scouting, babysitting, etc) so what exactly is he going to be doing? As someone that feeds off power and control and had his hands in EVERYTHING at NE he’s just going to delegate everything out to others now and do nothing? That’s not how control and power-driven people function.

Let’s just say he does relinquish all recruiting to others. How long before he gets pissed with players that he didn’t have a hand in recruiting and turns on his staff and tries to become involved in recruiting? “You told me this kid was great, but he can’t even learn my concepts.”

His drafting history isn’t full of A+ hoemrun picks, and his recent track record has been really shitty. So if he struggled to identify talent coming out of college many times, is it going to be easier to identify HS talent? Theres no way he’s just going to hand this part of it to others and say, “well, ok, I don’t want to recruit, so go find me players.”

So unless a stubborn 72yr old can do a 180 basically on what’s driven him for much of his career, this won’t end the way he wants.