Michael Lombardi, the longtime advisor to Bill Belichick who was recently placed on leave as North Carolina\u2019s general manager, has resigned.<\/p>\n
\u201cEffective September 3, 2026, Michael Lombardi has resigned from his position as General Manager of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s football program,\u201d North Carolina announced in a statement. \u201cThe University will continue its ongoing investigation and will consider all appropriate corrective actions responsive to the information it learns.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is still unclear why Lombardi was placed on leave, what North Carolina is investigating, or why he resigned, although the matter reportedly stems from a complaint filed by a former North Carolina employee. Less than a week ago, Lombardi\u2019s lawyer was claiming the investigation into Lombardi\u2019s conduct was a \u201cwitch hunt<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Belichick hired Lombardi shortly after becoming North Carolina\u2019s head coach. Lombardi had previously worked with Belichick in both of Belichick\u2019s NFL head-coaching stints, with the Browns and Patriots. After North Carolina won its season opener on Saturday, Belichick made a point of praising Lombardi\u2019s role in building the team.<\/p>\n Now Lombardi is gone, and Belichick has lost one of his most trusted aides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Lombardi, the longtime advisor to Bill Belichick who was recently placed on leave as North Carolina\u2019s general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-836087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836087","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=836087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}