The UNC is buzzing with the arrival of the legendary head coach Bill Belichick to their program. But you know, when big coaches come to CFB, they bring in an intense media hype and program scrutiny. All that certainly came to UNC, but for now, the media is busy piecing those ‘age gap’ headlines regularly after Belichick announced his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson. The man has probably found a way to keep the media distracted and make changes to the program under the surface. That’s the ultimate media protection shield, right? Well, yes and no.

Belichick, currently in a relationship with Jordon, has wholly shifted the media attention to his personal life. Not only that, but the head coach, aged 73, regularly posts adorable and private moments with his newfound love and has repeatedly accompanied him on special occasions. For starters, just recently, the duo were seen on the NFL Honors red carpet, and guess what the headlines were? Well, they all still talked about the age gap between the duo; on top of that, Snoop Dogg even cracked a joke about it in the ceremony. Now, in a recent interview with CBS, Bill Belichick was asked a similar question.

Belichick was asked, “Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship; they’ve got an opinion about your private life. It’s got nothing to do with them, but they’re invested in it. How do you deal with that?” Belichick tried to answer the question and said, “Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks, just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what’s right, how.” Then came the follow-up question by the interviewer.

The interviewer posed a different, maybe a harmless-looking question to the now UNC head coach. “How did you guys meet?“. Even before the head coach could answer, he was interrupted by a furious Jordon, who stopped the interview midway, bluntly saying, “Not talking about this, no, no.”

The interruption certainly showcases the level of interference Jordon might have felt with media scrutiny and hype. But let’s be honest, when you date a coach as legendary as Belichick, you might not come out of a restaurant without being followed by some paparazzi. That’s the brutal state of things that fame brings. But even then, boundaries still need to be set for such acts, and there should be a clear distinction between what counts as intrusive and what does not.

Dissatisfaction growing against Belichick at UNC?

Well, taking over a new team ain’t always easy. You have a ton of attrition going on; the program would still be reeling from the aftereffects of the rumblings that happened, and players would still be figuring out how to perform under the new head coach. Bill Belichick at UNC is no stranger to that. The head coach has assembled a whole new backroom staff, with Freddie Kitchens as the offensive coordinator and Steve Belichick, his son, as the defensive coordinator, among others. Moreover, more than 17 players have already arrived since Belichick took over, and now, with these sweeping changes, accusations are being made against the head coach.

The Athletic’s Tom Curran recently reported that there may be dissatisfaction brewing in UNC’s camp against Belichick’s moves. “From rumblings I heard, and this is not recent, and this a month or two ago, they’re not loving the Bill Belichick experience if you’re an everyday employee down there, which is probably what a lot of the people here in 2000 felt when Bill came aboard and said, ‘I don’t know if I like this.’ It’s uncomfortable“.

It’s no secret that when you have won 6 Super Bowls with your philosophy and tactical strategies, you would surely try to imprint those wherever you go. Bill Belichick is certainly doing that by running his program like a pro franchise. Even GM Michael Lombardi had called the team the 33rd franchise, so there’s no secret to that now. Also, for now, it seems to be working with recruitment being done aggressively. And the program is on the right track. So, why fix something that isn’t broken, right?