{"id":283865,"date":"2025-11-15T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:13:10","slug":"bill-belichick-says-he-will-not-pursue-any-nfl-head-coaching-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283865\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick says he will not pursue any NFL head-coaching vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, the Giants fired coach Brian Daboll. On Tuesday, North Carolina coach Bill Belichick didn\u2019t conclusively slam the door<\/a> on the possibility of pursuing the job.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, Belichick issued a statement conveying a far more clear message.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have great respect and genuinely care for the New York Giants organization and both the Mara and Tisch families,\u201d Belichick said in a statement released by the program. \u201cThe New York Giants played an important role in my life and in my coaching journey. It was a privilege for me to work for the Mara family and be a member of Coach Parcells\u2019 staff for over a decade. However, despite circulating rumors, I have not and will not pursue any NFL head coaching vacancies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince arriving in Chapel Hill, my commitment to the UNC Football program has not wavered. We have tremendous support from the university, our alumni, and the entire Carolina community. My focus remains solely on continuing to improve this team, develop our players, and build a program that makes Tar Heel fans proud. . . . We\u2019re on to Wake Forest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belichick said he was on to Wake Forest three days ago. But he didn\u2019t say he wouldn\u2019t take the Giants\u2019 position, or any other NFL job. And the buyout term of his contract says it all. He can leave whenever he wants for the NFL, in exchange for the mere payment of $1 million \u2014 which is pressed peanut sweepings<\/a> for any NFL owner.<\/p>\n

So what happened in the past three days? It would be incredibly foolish and naive to think he didn\u2019t explore through back channels whether it could happen. And if he learned that it wasn\u2019t in the cards, it becomes easy for him to take the high road and say he doesn\u2019t want a job that doesn\u2019t want him.<\/p>\n

There were no \u201ccirculating rumors\u201d about Belichick taking the Giants\u2019 job, just speculation. Maybe he felt like he needed to issue the statement because the talk of Belichick leaving was being used against him by programs pursuing the same recruits, whether from high school or the transfer portal.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Belichick is out. Never mind the very real possibility that he never would have been in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, the Giants fired coach Brian Daboll. On Tuesday, North Carolina coach Bill Belichick didn\u2019t conclusively slam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-283865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}