North Carolina G.M. Mike Lombardi has once again called a report regarding the potential NFL future of UNC head coach Bill Belichick a fake.

The situation is “making people nervous” at North Carolina, per Florio, including the athletic director and ACC president, concerned that Belichick could be biding time to see if an offer to return to the NFL shows up later in the game after there was little interest in the 72-year-old so far, according to Florio.

As college football's 2025 transfer portal cycle works through January, the winter window is in the books with North Carolina front and center among 247Sports' five burning questions. The Tar Heels entered Tuesday at No.

Bill Belichick has a simple way out of the North Carolina contract as NFL teams reach out about a potential return to coaching.

Belichick famously spurned the New York Jets after he was named Bill Parcells’s successor. His tenure lasted less than 24 hours after he wrote his resignation on a napkin and jumped ship to take over the New England Patriots. This move paid off handsomely.

A report emerged on Wednesday stating that multiple NFL teams with vacancies at head coach approached eight-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick about reconsidering his move to college football, where he was announced in December as the next head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels.

A month into the Bill Belichick era at North Carolina, the football program's general manager is already having to ease worries about the pace at which

Mike Lombardi isn’t letting Bill Belichick take any heat for his North Carolina hires, or lack thereof. Following a report from Pro Football Talk that claimed Belichick’s hiring process is “making people nervous” at the university,

Some higher-ups in college football were reportedly worried about Belichick taking his time to fill out his staff at UNC.