{"id":880818,"date":"2026-10-13T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880818\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:38:15","slug":"bill-belichick-puts-ex-unc-players-on-blast-after-1st-ranked-win-as-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880818\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick Puts Ex-UNC Players on Blast After 1st Ranked Win as HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bill Belichick&#8217;s first season in North Carolina didn&#8217;t go to plan, as the Tar Heels finished 4-8. But UNC has gotten off to a stronger start in 2026, going 3-2 following Saturday&#8217;s win over 21-17 win over Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">It was Belichick&#8217;s first win over a ranked opponent since taking over as head coach, and he used the occasion to take a shot at some of his former players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;Generally speaking, this team is more engaged,&#8221; he <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/murphsturph\/status\/2109710631251189871\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told reporters<\/a>. &#8220;They work harder. They&#8217;re more dedicated and they put more into it, so they get more out of it. And it&#8217;s important to them. Some of the players that left here, I don&#8217;t know how important things were to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">There&#8217;s plenty of season left and some tough matchups on the horizon, including No. 3 Miami on Oct. 31. But the Tar Heels seem to be on a far better trajectory in 2026 than they were a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick&#8217;s first season in North Carolina didn&#8217;t go to plan, as the Tar Heels finished 4-8. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-880818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880818","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=880818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}