There has been plenty of noise surrounding the North Carolina football team during head coach Bill Belichick’s first season, and he made it clear Wednesday he is not a fan of some of the storylines that have circulated.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure there’s a lot of other people that want to get clicks and views and posts on Myface or whatever, but it’s just a bunch of garbage,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
Belichick’s comments were in response to a question about whether he has noticed a shift in his team since he confirmed his commitment to the program earlier this month.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 8, both the head coach and athletic director Bubba Cunningham released statements saying there was a commitment between Belichick and the school:<\/p>\n
The statements came on the heels of a report from Ollie Connolly<\/a> of the Guardian that said the former New England Patriots coach was discussing buyout options with North Carolina and had “signalled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media.”<\/p>\n The Tar Heels were fresh off a 38-10 blowout loss to Clemson at the time, which dropped their record to 2-3 overall. The three losses to TCU, UCF and Clemson came by a combined 87 points, while the wins came against overmatched opponents in Charlotte and Richmond.<\/p>\n While North Carolina is 0-2 since that official statement confirming Belichick’s commitment, it has looked much better in defeat. It lost 21-18 on the road against California and then 17-16 in overtime against a Virginia squad that is No. 15 in the Associated Press Top 25.<\/p>\n Were it not for a late fumble against the Golden Bears and a failed two-point conversion against the Cavaliers, North Carolina may have won both of those games.<\/p>\n Belichick, who is accustomed to winning after taking home six Lombardi Trophies as the head coach of the Patriots, surely isn’t pleased with a 2-5 record. But things seem to be trending in the right direction after the lackluster start that also included off-field headlines such as a report from Pat Welter<\/a> of WRAL that said there was “a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to communicate.”<\/p>\n Headlines about whether there would be a documentary<\/a> also stood out, as did his confirmation<\/a> the Patriots were banned from his team’s facilities.<\/p>\n Belichick dismissed some of what he saw as “garbage” stories Wednesday and will now look to help North Carolina turn its recent close losses into wins moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been plenty of noise surrounding the North Carolina football team during head coach Bill Belichick’s first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-260258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}