Why Jordan Hudson, a then 24-year-old former beauty pageant contestant, was tagging along with the coach and his six rings because the coach believed she was his \u201cmuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
That alone \u2013 excluding the reality that no one in the NFL wanted Belichick and Lombardi \u2013 should\u2019ve been a massive red flag whipping in the wind, begging North Carolina to walk away from the train wreck waiting to happen.<\/p>\n
Want to blame someone for the off-Broadway disaster of Beli, Lombardi and The Muse? Blame Roberts, the chancellor at UNC, and Preyer, then the chairman of the powerful UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees.<\/p>\n
These two stalwarts of academia pushed aside North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham \u2013 who wanted to hire then-Iowa State coach Matt Campbell \u2013 and declared they were running the show. Or search committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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North Carolina Tar Heels general manager Michael Lombardi was placed on paid leave on July 27.<\/p>\n
Jim Dedmon, Imagn Images<\/p>\n
This is what they got for their fandom.<\/p>\n
Preyer left the board in January, leaving Roberts to hold this humiliating bag of steaming puke. The only way Roberts and Belichick survive is if Belichick somehow figures it out after stumbling through his now second roster rebuild.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right, a year after Belichick and Lombardi signed 70 new players (high school recruiting and transfer portal) in 2025, they signed 60 more for 2026. I\u2019m no math major, but that\u2019s a rather large percentage of misses from the first class that made up the \u201c33rd Team\u201d \u2013 Lombardi and Belichick\u2019s declaration that UNC would be the 33rd NFL team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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UNC football coach Bill Belichick discussed the Tar Heels entering their second week of practice, Steve Belichick’s status and recent NCAA rule changes.<\/p>\n
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Belichick and Lombardi fielded a team in 2025 that won two ACC games: one against lowly Stanford and interim coach Frank Reich, and the other against a Syracuse team that was using a lacrosse player at quarterback because there was no other healthy option on the roster. And still led 10-6 at halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Jordan Hudson, a then 24-year-old former beauty pageant contestant, was tagging along with the coach and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3851,331,3928,7,3929,6500,49,48,941,11058],"class_list":["post-973217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-bill-belichick","tag-college-football","tag-dcc","tag-football","tag-lee-national","tag-michael-lombardi","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-north-carolina","tag-unc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117095631624759638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973217","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=973217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}