After Bill Belichick left the New England Patriots in January, many expected that he would be back on the sideline for another NFL team next fall.
He spent this season making the rounds on multiple media outlets, and there were rumors that a couple of teams could be interested in him.
But instead, he ended up surprising many by taking the head coaching job at the University of North Carolina, a college that has never been a football powerhouse.
Belichick said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that there would have been interest in him from some NFL teams.
Belichick: “I think there would’ve been some interest” from NFL teams. But “it was about the opportunity at @UNCFootball.”
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Belichick, 72, is considered by some to be the greatest coach in league history after he guided legendary quarterback Tom Brady and the Patriots to six Super Bowl championships in his 24 seasons with the franchise.
But there is an argument that he still has a little bit to prove since he never had much real success without Brady, who left the Patriots to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the 2019 season and immediately won a seventh ring.
Furthermore, Belichick is close to surpassing Don Shula’s record for the most regular-season wins as a head coach in NFL history, but he claimed that he doesn’t care about that record — rather, he cares about winning championships.
At North Carolina, he will look to build up the Tar Heels program into one that is a heavyweight in the NCAA.
That program last won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) title in 1980 and has never won a national championship.
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