{"id":827503,"date":"2026-07-27T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827503\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:58:10","slug":"univ-of-north-carolina-football-gm-michael-lombardi-put-on-paid-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827503\/","title":{"rendered":"Univ. of North Carolina football GM Michael Lombardi put on paid administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Michael Lombardi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/OHJPNNJK3RF4ZLG7LIHYMYMXKE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>UNC football GM Michael Lombardi was placed on administrative leave, effectively immediately, in a move that reportedly stems from an HR complaint. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">The Univ. of North Carolina has placed football GM Michael Lombardi \u201con paid administrative leave, effective immediately,\u201d according to Greg Barnes of INSIDE CAROLINA. No reason was given in the school\u2019s statement, though <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteNakos\/status\/2081744896185020805?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteNakos\/status\/2081744896185020805?s=20\">On3 is reporting<\/a> the move \u201cstems from a human resources complaint.\u201d Sources confirmed that the complaint \u201cpertains to a former staff member.\u201d Lombardi is reportedly the highest-paid GM in college football; he is in the second year of a three-year deal worth $1.5M annually. Lombardi was Bill Belichick\u2019s \u201cfirst hire after accepting the UNC football coaching position in December 2024\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/north-carolina-tar-heels\/news\/unc-gm-michael-lombardi-placed-on-paid-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/north-carolina-tar-heels\/news\/unc-gm-michael-lombardi-placed-on-paid-leave\/\">INSIDE CAROLINA, 7\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNC football GM Michael Lombardi was placed on administrative leave, effectively immediately, in a move that reportedly stems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,594,596,85],"class_list":["post-827503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}