Jon Gruden Mocks Bill Belichick For Having His 24-Year Old Girlfriend Jordon Hudson On The UNC Sideline Before 25-Point Loss To UCF

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To call the start to Bill Belichick’s college football coaching career a dumpster fire would be disrespectful to actual dumpster fires. I mean sure, the Tar Heels are 2-2 heading into conference play, but their wins so far have come against Charlotte and FCS Richmond. Their losses, meanwhile, have included a 48-14 beatdown from TCU to open the season and a 25 point loss to UCF this past weekend.

Not great for the legendary New England Patriots coach in his first college job at the age of 73.

Of course one of the big storylines surrounding Belichick this past year has been his relationship with 24-year old former cheerleader Jordon Hudson.

Earlier this year, questions swirled after Hudson was spotted on the field with Belichick during UNC football practices, leaving many to wonder exactly what role she was playing with the team and whether she was on Belichick’s staff.

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And it was also revealed that the coach had asked UNC staff to copy his Gen Z girlfriend on emails to him, raising even more questions.

Then of course came the disastrous CBS interview on his new book, The Art Of Winning: Lessons From My Life In Football.

Hudson was the only person who accompanied Belichick to the interview: No PR team, no other staff from UNC, nobody from the publisher of his upcoming book, which he was supposedly there to promote. At one point Hudson reportedly stormed off the set and delayed shooting by 30 minutes, forcing higher-ups at CBS to get involved. And she had apparently interrupted from off camera several times in addition to the one that was shown, forcing producers to try to figure out how to salvage the final product and edit the interview in a way that could be aired on television.

When reporter Tony Dokoupil asked about how the couple met (which has been widely reported as having happened while the two were on a flight together and he signed her college textbook), Hudson quickly jumped in and shut the question down in an awkward exchange:

The whole thing was bizarre, and led many to wonder whether Hudson was taking advantage of the legendary coach – or at the very least, tarnishing his legacy.

Even Belichick’s daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Steve Belichick (who, ironically, works for his dad as the defensive coordinator for UNC) chimed in and seemed to throw shade at Hudson:

“Publicists act in a professional manner and don’t ‘storm’ off set delaying an interview.”

Talk about awkward.

After the interview, there were rumors that UNC had even banned Hudson from football facilities, reports the university disputed in a statement defending the coach’s girlfriend:

“While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities. Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”

It wasn’t the first time the university has had to use their official channels to defend Hudson. UNC released a statement after the CBS interview defending their coach’s girlfriend and claiming that the interview was solely to talk about his new book, which CBS later denied with their own statement claiming that they hadn’t agreed to any restrictions on the conversation.

The whole thing is turning into a disaster for UNC and Belichick, a coach who notoriously liked to stay out of the headlines and away from the media to just focus on football.

During their first home game against TCU to open the season, Hudson was spotted talking to Belichick on the sideline ahead of the game before heading up to her suite (where she watched the matchup alongside Randy Moss). And again this week, Hudson and Belichick were spotted chatting on the field before the game kickoff, which has naturally led to a lot of conversation about whether she’s a distraction for the team this point – and a lot of memes to go with it:

(For the record, they did lose by more than her age).

Well this morning on Wake Up Barstool, the new morning show on FS1 from Barstool Sports, former NFL coach Jon Gruden (who coached against Belichick during their time in the NFL) weighed in on Belichick having his girlfriend on the sideline after being asked by host Dave Portnoy if he ever had his wife with him while coaching games:

“Well actually she called the game winner against the Ravens on Monday Night Football a couple years ago, she came down on the field and helped me through a tough situation. It was an all-out blitz and she told me to go with 58 Surge, so thank God she saved the day that day.

But I’ve never seen anything like that.”

And honestly, it probably wouldn’t be as big of a storyline as it is if the team were winning every game, but that’s not happening so here we are.

Obviously I’m not a football coach, or a football player, but I can’t think of any reason why a coach would need his wife on the sideline before a game. What could they possibly be talking about that’s more important than focusing on beating UCF?

Whatever it is, it’s not working for Belichick.

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