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

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If the standard you are holding him to is his success at New England then yes, he will be a failure.

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Which would be dumb considering the history of most NFL coaches that have entered the college game.

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think he'll get people to buy in

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Is the selling point to recruits just going to be “knows football and most Super Bowl rings” ?

UNC has the 5th or so largest endowment of any public university. I think they will get better with large NIL $'s. Age is only thing working against him. He may have 4 or so years to do this.

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Age is only thing working against him. He may have 4 or so years to do this.

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That’s a good point. Say they don’t make the playoff in those 3-4 years but he builds something lasting for his son to take over and they do find success after that, I’d say that’s a win.

Only on TD can you find a post about how the greatest football coach of all time in the NFL will certainly fail in college. The dude can coach. NFL GMs are stupid for passing on him if they did. Acting like all his success is just bc "muh Brady" is just idiotic.

A super bowl winning coach suddenly forgets how to coach?

If you want him to fail, you're just a hater.

Great press conference. I'm rooting for Belichick. In a world full of nonsense, he’s a refreshing change.

And no wonder UNC couldn’t get their shite together, the Chancellor looked like a clueless doosh bag

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super bowl winning coach suddenly forgets how to coach?

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Yea cause that’s what I said lol

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Only on TD can you find a post about how the greatest football coach of all time in the NFL will certainly fail in college. The dude can coach. 

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I'm honestly amazed at the amount of people who are writing this off & who are saying Belichick will be a complete failure at UNC.

While everyone has been focused on discussions about his girlfriend, Belichick had been visiting college campuses, meeting with college coaches & administrators & observing college football practices. He was obviously gathering information that he used in that 400 page "bible" he provided in his interview with UNC. Let's not forget that he is also best friends with the best to ever coach the college game. There's not doubt he leaned on Saban heavily in preparing his football bible.

The fact the he will put together 2 different staffs, one for coaching & the other for recruiting is actually genius. That will allow the coaches on the football side to simply worry about X's & O's during the season. That's huge because now with the early signing period in December, crunch time for recruiting falls during the meat & potatoes of the football season. It can lead to a staff being stretched thin trying to finalize recruiting classes while at the same time trying to do game planning, game prep & win games on the field. Even Saban admitted how difficult this is when responding to Pat McAfee concerning LSU hosting 300 recruits for this year's LSU/Bama game.

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Just ask former Alabama coach Nick Saban, who vented about the subject Friday during an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show in Athens before Georgia's game against Tennessee.

"I was even saying on the way over here how much easier it was to play on the road from my coaching-load standpoint," Saban said after being told that last week on McAfee's show, LSU coach Brian Kelly said the Tigers were hosting "upward of 300 recruits and their families" for their game against Alabama.

"If you had 300 recruits in there, who talked to those guys while they were there? The coaches had to talk to them, the head coach had to talk to them. I mean, so you're spending so much time on Friday and Saturday recruiting that it takes away from your focus on the game. Then you're asking a player, 'Hey, man, why don't come over and say hi to this recruit?' Instead of him focusing on the game, he's worried about recruiting. When you play on the road, you don't have any of that.

"Plus I used to have to go to Nick at Noon and speak to everybody when we had a home game. I hated that. I mean, I hated it. To spend 12 to 1 on Friday before a big game and you're speaking to these

"I enjoyed doing it, don't get me wrong," Saban, making air quotes with his fingers, told McAfee. "But it took away from -- and then you leave that, and you've got to go talk to some recruits. I used to have trouble getting dressed in time to go out for warm-ups when we had big home games because I had so many recruits to talk to in my office, in the stadium, in the locker room -- I was hustling to get dressed to be on time for warm-ups.

"So it can be a distraction, but if you're gonna have a good team, you've got to do a good job of recruiting."

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In terms of Belichick's football staff, you have to figure it's going to be one of the better staff's in the country from a X & O standpoint. The biggest questions revolving around this are who will be on his recruiting staff & how well his recruiting staff does in getting in talent. The operation is being set up to be successful already though with UNC designating $20 million to recruiting & NIL. The Carolinas are a hotbed for high school talent & they will be able to dip into Georgia & Florida as well. I'm not saying Belichick will win a National Title at UNC but with the plan he has in place & UNC now willing to spend, the percentages of Belichick having UNC compete for ACC Championships & CFP births are better than many realize.

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At the same time, I don't think he will turn UNC into a top 5 program with a legitimate chance to compete for a title.

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A program doesn't have to be a top 5 program any longer to compete for a title with the 12 team playoff. Boise St., SMU, Arizona St. & Indiana aren't any near consideration for top 10 much less top 5 programs in the country yet here they are. 4 out of the 12 teams in the playoff tournament.

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I think he will likely have them barely making bowl eligibility each year, with a lone 9-10 win season sandwiched in. 

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Listen at what you are saying here. UNC has been a "barely" bowl eligible program with average to below average coaches & coaching staffs. Nor have they ever displayed this big of a commitment to football EVER. Getting that administration to dedicate $20 million per year to the football program is a level of commitment only seen by premier programs in the country. Last but not least, 9-10 wins in the ACC probably gets them in the ACC Championship game with a shot to be in the playoffs.