{"id":306101,"date":"2025-08-21T14:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/306101\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:32:12","slug":"are-bill-belichicks-favorite-parts-of-ncaa-football-shot-at-krafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/306101\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Bill Belichick’s Favorite Parts Of NCAA Football Shot At Krafts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hardly a secret that Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft didn\u2019t end on the best of terms \u2014 as evidenced by the ongoing war of words<\/a> through the media this year between the two.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s hard to look at Belichick\u2019s take on coaching in college as opposed to the NFL and not think he\u2019s taking at least a little jab at his old boss.<\/p>\n

The future Hall of Fame coach is in Year 1 at the University of North Carolina. His stint there has so far been marred by distractions, namely involving his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, all before playing a game.<\/p>\n

But things have gotten quieter lately, more along the lines of how you would expect a Belichick operation to run. <\/p>\n

With training camp underway, Belichick laid out in an exclusive interview with The Boston Globe\u2019s<\/a> Ben Volin some of the things he enjoys about college football.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s no owner, there\u2019s no owner\u2019s son, there\u2019s no cap, everything that goes with the marketing and everything else, which I\u2019m all for that. But it\u2019s way less of what it was at that level,\u201d Belichick told Volin. \u201cGeneric NFL teams, you have the owner, president, general manager, personnel director, college director, pro director, cap guy, some other consultant, then head coach. I\u2019d say when we had our best years in New England, we had fewer people and more of a direct vision. And as that expanded, it became harder to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

All very sound points, especially in a vacuum. But the fact that he led off with discussing ownership, and specifically naming the \u201cowner\u2019s son,\u201d isn\u2019t exactly a subtle way of expressing dissatisfaction with his previous employer. <\/p>\n

It has already been reported that Belichick and Patriots president Jonathan Kraft, Robert Kraft\u2019s son, weren\u2019t the most<\/a> aligned. In fact, things appeared downright acrimonious at the end.<\/p>\n

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In any event, all parties have moved on (sort of), and the potshots through the press will eventually subside. Clearly, though, that time is not now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hardly a secret that Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft didn\u2019t end on the best of terms \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3851,7,57828,49,48,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-306101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bill-belichick","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jonathan-kraft","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115067246643186409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}