Bill Belichick won’t headline North Carolina's weekly coach's radio show

Invoice Belichick coaches in faculty soccer, but it surely seems he gained’t be an everyday in a single faculty soccer custom: The coach’s weekly radio present.

North Carolina introduced Thursday that Belichick shall be on the primary episode of the Tar Heels’ weekly radio present on Aug. 27 at High of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery, however common supervisor Michael Lombardi would be the present’s headliner every week. Beforehand known as “Mack Brown Dwell,” it can now be known as “Carolina Soccer Dwell.”

Assistant coaches and gamers will be part of Lombardi weekly on the present, in keeping with UNC’s press launch, which doesn’t specify when Belichick will return to the present. Lombardi has earlier media expertise, internet hosting podcasts and showing commonly on Pat McAfee’s present.

Whereas the coach’s weekly radio present continues to be frequent throughout faculty soccer, the chance for followers to name in and ask reside questions has began to vanish through the years. Nick Saban was a uncommon high-profile coach who continued to take reside calls till he retired in 2024. Many colleges have eliminated that chance, both due to losses or a coach getting upset with a caller. After a spat with “Tyler from Spartanburg” in 2023, Clemson ended reside requires coach Dabo Swinney. The present now takes questions through textual content message.

North Carolina says followers who can’t make the present in individual can submit questions through e mail.

Some faculty coaches have the weekly radio present written into their contracts. Belichick’s deal at UNC solely says the coach shall seem on media alternatives “as fairly requested by the College” and that the timing and site shall be mutually agreed upon by the events. It’s underneath the $9 million “supplemental earnings” part of his contract.

North Carolina opens with TCU on Sept. 1.

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