Bill Belichick's Uncertain Future at North Carolina

I think for Bill, the dream, sadly, is probably still to coach in the NFL again. Of course. Yes. And I think what that means is he'll hold on to this job for however long he can, right? And I don't know if North Carolina want to fire him. So this is something that I was, if we're grading it right now, very wrong about, but it was one season. One of the things I liked about the Bill Belichick hire was that it gave them Stephen Belichick as the defensive coordinator. Now his son, now he's probably not going to be there at last, you know, reports were that he was on medical leave. I don't know that. I don't know that situation, but just Stephen Belichick, the season prior to their North Carolina debut was the defensive coordinator for the Washington Huskies and produced a national top 30 defense. So to me, I just thought based on, you know, I thought that's a good hire for North Carolina. Like a young DC with Stephen Belichick's pedigree has now produced at the college level. Like so you get Bill to kind of raise your status and then eventually you'll just hand it over to Stephen Belichick. That works great. They're less likely to do that, obviously, if this is all a disaster. I think what you would agree with is UNC are almost as incentivized as Bill for this to work. Right. So they are, I don't think they'll fire him in the middle. I don't think they want to do it. North Carolina. Like if you bring the basketball program into it, Craig and hiring Michael Malone, former Denver Nuggets head coach, like they're chasing status a little bit. We'll see what the results are going to be. I'm bullish a bit right now on what Michael Malone will be for North Carolina here. I just, last year was a mess. There's no other way to describe it. The expectations are much lower this year. Like if they do go six and six, can I call that a success, Craig? I think that'd be fine. Yes. I do think that'd be fine. I guess what it is with me is that if I, if I try to think back and I think historically now the game has changed in college football to degrees that we're never going back again. As they say, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. You can't do it. But if you think historically, Kevin, some stuff is going to come with Bill Belichick, but in no way could you have expected the girlfriend, the Lombardi issue, the son, like you could not have expected all of this stuff to happen in a 365 day calendar year. And so Kevin, that just sort of tells me it's just too wacky, man. Like stuff is happening that we are not privy to. You have the athletic directors and the boosters and everyone's sitting in a room in some conference room in Chapel Hill, Kevin, and I wonder if they are wondering, oh my gosh, what did we get ourselves into here with this? Did we make a mistake? To your point, I will say that I believe you're probably right. That it's, I don't see them firing him, but then ask yourself this question, Kevin, if they're two and six, if they're right, you know, three and five and they know Kevin and they know at the end of the season, the, the, the carousel and the circus is not coming back. What would they do? Would they say, ah, just go ahead and finish the season or would they do what every other college football and basketball program does, which is say, let's get ahead of this, eat the money, give the message out there to our recruits. The circus is done. We're bringing somebody else in. I mean, it's crazy to associate circus with Bill Belichick. It was the opposite at new England. I just, it's one of those things where trending to me the wrong way.