North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick took an apparent swipe at the New England Patriots while explaining how he was acclimating to college football approximately 10 days before the Tar Heels open the 2025 season versus TCU.

Until Bill Belichick makes his college football debut in the Sept. 1 opener against TCU, Mack Brown remains the last coach to lead North Carolina on the field in a regular-season game. The two-time Tar Heels head man said he sees differences in his old program in the short time he has been away,

North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Bill Belichick doesn't want anybody to know anything about the way he does things. He's always been tight-lipped, and that's been especially true as it relates to prying questions from the media.

Dykes on his expectations for their matchup against the six-time Super Bowl champion and the Tar Heels: “Who really knows exactly what we’re gonna see.”

North Carolina football is walking into a buzzworthy 2025 with Bill Belichick there. One analyst predicts underwhelming results, though.

The North Carolina coach has been showing his Tar Heels tape of some Patriots greats ahead of the 2025 season. Belichick’s also taking the approach he had with the media during his time in New England to UNC as well, opting not to appear on the team’s radio show on a weekly basis this season, the program shared on Friday.

College football may be becoming more like the NFL in some ways, but Belichick and Reich still face unique challenges in 2025.

Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who is now the head coach at the University of North Carolina, has decided not to continue a media commitment that his predecessor took part in last season.