The six-time Super Bowl-winning coach wants to be back on the sideline in 2025 and has been in discussions with the Tar Heels after they fired Mack Brown.
The North Carolina Tar Heels have had discussions in recent days with legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick about their vacant job, sources confirm toSources tell SI that Belichick, who won six Super Bowls as coach of the New England Patriots, definitely wants to coach again in 2025 after sitting out this season.
For North Carolina, it would mean turning the program over to a second straight coach in his 70s. Athletic director Bubba Cunninghamlast week after six seasons and a 44–33 record in his second stint on the job. Brown had expressed displeasure with the current state of college football, with the transfer portal and NIL compensation changing the way rosters are built and maintained.
Belichick’s interest level in the nuts and bolts of recruiting would need to be answered, but his staff could handle most of that work—and Belichick’s name would sell itself to recruits, both at the high school and college transfer levels. Another recent unconventional college coach, Deion Sanders, has built a successful program with the Colorado Buffaloes without doing in-home recruiting visits.
Sumrall could be available for formal discussions with UNC after Friday night, when Tulane plays the Army Black Knights for the American Athletic Conference championship.
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