Here\u2019s the full session<\/a>, all four minutes of it.<\/p>\nThe first question focused on whether there were any common themes from three straight losses to end the season. Belichick\u2019s response was brief and unintelligible.<\/p>\n
Later, Belichick was asked about the things that made his first season at UNC a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll take a look at the season later,\u201d Belichick said. \u201cJust finished with the game ten minutes ago, so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, a simple and fair question: \u201cWhat did this season teach you, Coach?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we just got done with the game, OK?\u201d Belichick said. \u201cSo . . . yeah, so we\u2019re not gonna do a season recap. I\u2019m just finished with the game here. We\u2019ll do a season recap when we get done, you know, alright? I mean, sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same concept came up again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, look, the season just ended a few minutes ago, and so now we\u2019re gonna move into the offseason,\u201d Belichick said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do.\u201d<\/p>\n
One reporter tried to explain to Belichick that they won\u2019t have access to him moving forward, and that they\u2019re simply asking about the plan moving forward. Belichick still wasn\u2019t having any of it.<\/p>\n
The dismissive attitude works when a coach is winning. When a coach is struggling, it has a much different feel. As I\u2019ve said time and again about Belichick, if he wants to avoid answering fair and reasonable questions from reporters on a regular basis, he should go coach high-school lacrosse \u2014 and be compensated accordingly.<\/p>\n
He works for a public institution now. He makes $10 million per year from that university. He\u2019s the primary face and voice of the football program. Short, chippy, and argumentative answers become an even worse look when he\u2019s working for a school that is funded by the people and that ultimately belongs to them.<\/p>\n
The practical impact is that, as Belichick moves forward to his second season, the same reporters he has stonewalled will be the ones shaping the narratives around the program. And, quite possibly, making the case for Belichick to be fired after a second bad season, if 2026 is a repeat of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick\u2019s first season at North Carolina ended with a 42-19 loss to N.C. State, dropping the Tar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-322611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322611","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=322611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}