TCU's opening matchup against the North Carolina Tarheels just got a lot more interesting.
news that broke this week. The short answer is that TCU's first opponent in the 2025 football season just got much more difficult. Theannounced on Wednesday that the next head football coach of the Tarheels would be none other than the six-time Super Bowl champion himself.finished the remainder of the season as the interim head coach. With the coaching vacancy for the Tarheels, there was buzz about who the next head coach would be at such a large brand in D1 athletics.
At first glance, this coaching hire seems odd, to say the least. Upon further investigation, one connection of Belichick's to North Carolina was that his father, Steve Belichick, was an assistant coach for the Tarheels from 1953-1955. With Belichick being a coach who values the old-fashioned way of doing things, it will be interesting to watch how he handles today's chaotic NIL landscape.
"If I was in a college program, the college program would be a pipeline to the NFL for the players that had the ability to play in the NFL. It would be a professional program. Training, nutrition, scheme, coaching, techniques that would transfer to the NFL. It would be an NFL program at the college level." - Bill Belichick on theBelow is the full 20-minute interview concerning the rumors about Belichick taking a college coaching job.
One thing to note is that UNC's recruitment ranking for the 2025 class comes in at #90 in the nation as of right now . UNC usually has been ranked in the top 15-20 schools in the country for high school recruiting. TCU's recruiting class, on the other hand, is ranked #24 in the recruitment rankings for the 2025 class. One thing to watch in the offseason is how North Carolina navigates the transfer portal, if at all, with so many high school recruits already committed.
Horned Frog fans will note that this is the second time in the last three years that the TCU football team will be the opponent for a big-name coaching debut. In 2023, the Horned Frogs unfortunately ran intoBefore the Belichick hire, there wasn't a lot of buzz around TCU's matchup with UNC. That buzz has now changed, as many TCU fans will be looking forward to seeing aCarson is a student currently at TCU studying journalism with a sports focus.
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