Bill Belichick turns his back on UNC tradition – | Sports News

Bill Belichick, the new head coach for UNC, is breaking from tradition and won’t be a weekly visitor on the Tar Heels’ coach’s radio show.

Instead, Michael Lombardi, the crew’s common supervisor, will take on the position of answering followers’ questions every week. This transfer marks a departure from the long-standing customized in school soccer, the place coaches usually seem on weekly radio reveals.

Belichick’s predecessor at Chapel Hill, Mack Brown, was a common on his own self-titled weekly show during his six seasons with the Tar Heels. The determination is simply one other instance of how New England Patriots legend Belichick, 73, is shaking issues up since taking on at UNC, accompanied by his 24-12 months-outdated girlfriend, Jordon Hudson.

The radio show, broadcast on the Tar Heel Sports Radio Network from the Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery, has been renamed ‘Carolina Football Live.’

While Belichick will make an look on the primary show, set to air on Aug. 27, a press release from the varsity confirms that Lombardi would be the predominant visitor transferring ahead.

Lombardi, 66, has a long historical past with Belichick, having served as his director of participant personnel on the Cleveland Browns within the early Nineteen Nineties. The two later reunited in 2014 when Lombardi spent two years helping the Patriots’ teaching workers.

Following his departure from the Patriots, Lombardi transitioned into media work for a number of years. He turned a common voice on FOX Sports and made appearances on ‘The Pat McAfee Show.’

UNC kicks off its season when TCU visits Chapel Hill on Sep. 1. Matchups towards Charlotte, Richmond and UCF will comply with earlier than a marquee conflict with ACC foes Clemson. Since assuming control at UNC, Belichick has made restricted media appearances, although he expressed confidence about this system’s direction during final month’s ACC media day.

“The support’s been overwhelmingly tremendous. Not only supportive, but engaged and very excited,” he stated. “We want to match that excitement and put that on the field.

“Mike and I’ve labored collectively for a long time, going all the way in which back to the beginning of Cleveland. Mike within the common supervisor position and myself within the head teaching position, we’ve got a lot of expertise in coping with sort of what the school soccer panorama is now, comparable.

“Not the same, but similar in terms of NIL, revenue sharing, free agency, if you will, and recruiting post-draft type recruiting as opposed to drafting.

“Mike has achieved a great job of reinforcing the roster. We had a quantity of gamers right here which have been right here that we’re excited to work with. We have 70 new gamers from final 12 months that weren’t on the roster final season.

“Everybody has got a lot of focus, obviously, on the TCU opener, which is in our sights, but really right now the big thing for us is just stacking good training days one on top of another, one at a time, and being ready to go, not only for the opener but for the entire regular season and the ACC schedule.”