Bill Belichick Has Reportedly Banned Scouts From The New England Patriots From Attending UNC Practice

Didn’t look like there’s much reason for them to be there anyway…

The Bill Belichick era at the University of North Carolina kicked off this week when the Tar Heels took on the TCU Horned Frogs, and it’s safe to say it was a disaster.

In his first game as a head coach at the college level, Belichick and his team lost 48-14. And when you throw in all of the distractions and drama surrounding his 24-year old girlfriend Jordon Hudson, many college football fans are already ready to write off the legendary coach’s tenure in Chapel Hill as a failure.

If Belichick can’t find success at the college level, it would be a sad ending to a legendary career after the coach won six Super Bowls during his 23 seasons with the New England Patriots. But unfortunately it sounds like there’s still some hard feelings with the way his tenure ended at his previous job too.

Belichick was fired by the Patriots following the 2023 season, after the team’s second consecutive losing season and second straight season missing the playoffs. It was the only time during his 23 years in Foxborough that the team had two losing seasons in a row, and the team hadn’t been to the Super Bowl since 2018 – the longest stretch of his career with the Patriots without making the big game.

Of course the departure of quarterback Tom Brady no doubt had a lot to do with his falloff, and it was announced that Belichick and the team had “mutually agreed” to part ways, but it’s pretty clear that the coach wasn’t happy with the way he was let go after such an incredible career.

And according to one source, that tension has spilled over into Belichick’s new job.

John Middlekauff reported on his 3 and Out podcast that Belichick has banned New England Patriots scouts from attending practice at UNC:

“The North Carolina Tar Heels banned Patriots scouts from coming through, which is unheard of.”

The move is apparently a middle finger to Patriots owner Robert Kraft, but in the end of course the only people it’s really hurting are the players who might have their chances of playing in the NFL hampered by the fact that a scout isn’t able to watch them.

Although after what we saw on Monday night, maybe that’s not a bad thing…

According to Pete Thamel, the NFL scouts at the season opener were mainly interested in TCU quarterback Josh Hoover, and not so much anyone on the Tar Heels:

It’s obviously a rough look for a legendary coach like Bill Belichick, who clearly still has some hard feelings for his former team. Even his 24-year old girlfriend has been retweeting shots at the Patriots, so it doesn’t sound like there’s going to be any Bill Belichick Day in Foxborough any time soon…The post Bill Belichick Has Reportedly Banned Scouts From The New England Patriots From Attending UNC Practice first appeared on Whiskey Riff.