{"id":8045,"date":"2024-12-12T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bill-belichick-new-england-patriots-legend-becomes-university-of-north-carolina-coach\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:15:14","slug":"bill-belichick-new-england-patriots-legend-becomes-university-of-north-carolina-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bill-belichick-new-england-patriots-legend-becomes-university-of-north-carolina-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick: New England Patriots legend becomes University of North Carolina coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Legendary American football coach Bill Belichick has returned to the game after a year out but not as a coach in the NFL.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 72-year-old, who won a record six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, has become head coach of the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/67948937\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">ending his 24-year spell with the Patriots at the end of last season,<\/a> Belichick was interviewed by the NFL&#8217;s Atlanta Falcons but not offered a role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead he fulfilled a number of broadcasting roles this season before accepting a three-year deal with the Tar Heels, worth a reported $30m (\u00a323.5m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belichick&#8217;s father, Steve Belichick, was an assistant coach at UNC from 1953-55. Bill Belichick takes over a Tar Heels programme that has not won a conference title since 1980.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belichick said in a statement released by UNC: &#8220;I am excited for the opportunity. I grew up around college football with my dad and treasured those times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have always wanted to coach in college and now I look forward to building the football programme in Chapel Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cwy37496vgxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary American football coach Bill Belichick has returned to the game after a year out but not as a coach in the NFL. The 72-year-old, who won a record six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, has become head coach of the University of North Carolina. After ending his 24-year spell with the Patriots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}