Bill Belichick has claimed that the first words he ever spoke were \u201cBeat Duke,\u201d because his father was an assistant coach at North Carolina. Now, a Belichick has beaten Duke for the first time.<\/p>\n
Belichick\u2019s North Carolina team beat Duke today, 24-20, blowing a 17-0 lead, falling behind 20-17 and then coming back with the game-winning touchdown with less than two minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
In Belichick\u2019s first season at North Carolina last year, his Tar Heels lost to Duke. And North Carolina went 0-3 against Duke in the three years that Belichick\u2019s father, Steve Belichick, was a Tar Heels assistant. So this win was special for Belichick.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also special because it\u2019s more evidence that Belichick is turning things around after his disappointing debut season. The Tar Heels are now 4-2 after finishing 4-8 last year.<\/p>\n
Whether Belichick can turn North Carolina into a college football power remains to be seen, but he has his team heading in the right direction, with a big win over a big rival today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick has claimed that the first words he ever spoke were \u201cBeat Duke,\u201d because his father was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-886236","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\/886236","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=886236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}