As six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick is ready to start his first season as head coach of the University of North Carolina football program, the Chapel Bill era is about to officially begin. Naturally, a person of his caliber offers a unique transition, as has been the case ever when Belichick was hired by the Tar Heels in December.
Prior to his first game off the field against TCU on September 1 at Kenan Memorial Stadium, a recent ruling suggested that Belichick would be anything but a typical college coach. The new Tar Heels coach will not be on the program’s customary weekly coach’s radio show, according to Reuters and ProFootballTalk.
A year after Bill Belichick was everywhere in the media, he’ll apparently be nowhere in 2025. https://t.co/Mcf7AMX81v
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) August 16, 2025
Before UNC plays the Horned Frogs, which is currently the lone scheduled visit, Belichick will make time to come on the show for its premiere episode. If not, Michael Lombardi will be the main attraction of the show, which was formerly known as Mack Brown Live but is now called Carolina Football Live. Soon after Lombardi was hired, Belichick appointed him general manager of the program. He has thirty years of experience as a football executive, and from 2014 to 2016, he assisted Belichick’s coaching staff with the New England Patriots.
Every week, the majority of college coaches nationwide set aside time to appear on their program’s coaches show. Belichick is obviously an exception to the rule. As he starts his time at UNC, the 73-year-old seems to want to keep things as low-key as possible after receiving a lot of unwelcome media attention.
