{"id":348221,"date":"2025-09-07T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:51:14","slug":"bill-belichick-says-new-england-patriots-scouts-not-welcome-at-unc-football-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348221\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick says New England Patriots scouts &#8216;not welcome&#8217; at UNC football facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 Bill Belichick confirmed that New England Patriots scouts are &#8220;not welcome&#8221; at UNC football&#8217;s facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that I&#8217;m not welcome there, around their facility,&#8221; Belichick said after the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/north-carolina-tar-heels\/3412\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tar Heels;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tar Heels<\/a>&#8216; 20-3 win at Charlotte on Sept. 6. &#8220;So, they&#8217;re not welcome in ours. Pretty simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old coach, who won six Super Bowl championships as head coach of the Patriots, was asked about the banning-scouts situation after he won his first game as a college football coach. Belichick spent 24 seasons in New England before the two parties decided to &#8220;mutually part ways&#8221; at the conclusion of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>There were NFL scouts on site for UNC vs. Charlotte at Jerry Richardson Stadium, representing the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers. Belichick&#8217;s Tar Heels (1-1) had a second-half shutout in their victory against the Niners (1-1), doing so in front of a record-breaking crowd of 19,233.<\/p>\n<p>Rodd Baxley covers Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State for The Fayetteville Observer as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his ACC coverage on X\/Twitter or Bluesky: @RoddBaxley. Got questions regarding those teams? Send them to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/mailto:rbaxley@fayobserver.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:rbaxley@fayobserver.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rbaxley@fayobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/story\/sports\/college\/acc\/2025\/09\/06\/bill-belichick-new-england-patriots-scouts-unc-football\/85894112007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bill Belichick says Patriots scouts are banned from UNC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bill Belichick says Patriots scouts are banned from UNC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 Bill Belichick confirmed that New England Patriots scouts are &#8220;not welcome&#8221; at UNC football&#8217;s facilities. &#8220;It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[254,3851,260,9475,7,259,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,57,19921,6493,11059],"class_list":{"0":"post-348221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-bill-belichick","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-minnesota-vikings","14":"tag-new-england","15":"tag-new-england-patriots","16":"tag-newengland","17":"tag-newenglandpatriots","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-patriots","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-super-bowl-championships","22":"tag-tar-heels","23":"tag-unc-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115161457388365582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348221","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=348221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}