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Bill Belichick's awful North Carolina debut shows Chapel Hill's 'New Hope' needs to go back to the drawing board
Yahoo ^ | September 2, 2025 | Dan Wolken

Posted on 09/02/2025 3:39:38 AM PDT by C19fan

When the general assembly decided to build a state university here 235 years ago, they named the town for a church built by the British.

The little chapel on the hill was actually called New Hope.

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1 posted on 09/02/2025 3:39:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

A New Hope was also the episode title of the first Star Wars movie.


2 posted on 09/02/2025 3:46:48 AM PDT by xp38
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If uncc beats unc next week, bill will get tossed


3 posted on 09/02/2025 3:52:32 AM PDT by struggle
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He was trying to put a team together based on a whole bunch of guys they took in the portal. Its tough to have any kind of cohesion when you have so many transfers. I don’t think this really reflects on Belichek. The cupboard was bare in Chapel Hill.


4 posted on 09/02/2025 3:52:35 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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The ACC is a dead conference. Everybody (Miami, FSU, Clemson) wants to leave. As my dad said, couldn’t happen to a better conference!


5 posted on 09/02/2025 3:58:49 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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It gives him the easiest schedule of a Power 4 (or 2) conference...but if UNC doesn’t even make a Bowl Game he probably is gone.


6 posted on 09/02/2025 4:07:00 AM PDT by erlayman (E )
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Without Tom Brady, Belichick is not that great of a coach.


7 posted on 09/02/2025 4:18:26 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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As a loather of all things Chapel Hill starting with that left wing dick head Dean Smith and aw shucks left winger Roy Williams and the whole effing town I enjoyed every minute of that a$$ whipping last night. That being said Bill has his work cut out for him. But as another poster said Belicheat is not good without Brady. Bottom line. SUCK IT TARHOLES. 😂😎


8 posted on 09/02/2025 4:24:00 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Mack Brown is a very good coach, yet he was only able to get 6 wins for North Carolina last year.

Bill is going to have a tough time turning that program into a playoff contender. Perhaps he should appoint his 24 year old girlfriend as offensive coordinator, since she no doubt coordinates their relationship.


9 posted on 09/02/2025 4:25:40 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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That sir is hilarious. 😂


10 posted on 09/02/2025 4:28:32 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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I don’t think you can condemn a team on one game.


11 posted on 09/02/2025 4:30:57 AM PDT by yldstrk
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The late Bill Walsh left the 49ers and went back to Stanford hiring a few of his ex players to become assistant coaches. Didn’t work out.


12 posted on 09/02/2025 4:31:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Wait- what? You think they’re going to fire Belichick after one season if he doesn’t make a bowl game?? If that’s the thought its probably one of the most asinine posts i’ve read....


13 posted on 09/02/2025 4:32:08 AM PDT by God luvs America
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Oh for God’s sake, in order to read about his debut in a football game, I have to read about the town’s history starting 235 years ago!


14 posted on 09/02/2025 4:51:48 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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I think there is a good chance Belichick leaves UNC after this season on his own direction, not because he was fired, IMO he’s not a college coach, you can be a curmudgeon in the NFL so long as you win, in college, high school kids and boosters have to be schmoozed and from the outside that is not an asset that Belichick has.

If he were to get fired, it would be a combination of a terrible team and the embarrassment of his 20-something fiancé,


15 posted on 09/02/2025 5:01:07 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: woweeitsme

Bill has been too distracted by the goldigger. His heart isn’t in it anymore. Should hang up the cleats.


16 posted on 09/02/2025 5:04:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

I was in high school/college when Dean Smith, Valvano, Coach K and Lefty Drisell were coaches in the ACC. What a time to be a basketball fan!!!!! ❤️


17 posted on 09/02/2025 5:09:08 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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(I don’t think you can condemn a team on one game.

Precisely! That’s just like tons of people are shredding Arch Manning’s performance as starting QB in the Longhorns loss to Ohio. It was his first game for crying out loud.


18 posted on 09/02/2025 5:32:25 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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Which is funny, since BB has all the appeal of Emperor Palpatine.


19 posted on 09/02/2025 5:34:52 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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The point of BB hire was to make UNC football relevant and jump start an invitation into BG12 or SEC. Relevant no, but with the move to 9 conference games next year, invitations will be going out soon. Miss St and Vanderbilt make some room.


20 posted on 09/02/2025 5:46:02 AM PDT by stateofit
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