Bill Belichick Has Blunt Response To 'garbage' Rumors Questioning Unc Commitment

Amid a disastrous commencement to Bill Belichick's first play arsenic coach of nan North Carolina shot team, rumors began earlier this period that Belichick and nan programme were perchance talking astir an exit strategy for him to time off nan program.

The Tar Heels person gotten disconnected to a 2–5 commencement nether Belichick, and betwixt blowout losses, banning Patriots scouts from attending squad practices, reports of protect coordinator Steve Belichick barely talking to players and reports of general head Michael Lombardi being "rude," Belichick's tenure successful Chapel Hill could not person begun connected a worse note.

Shortly aft those first rumors swirled, Belichick and diversion head Bubba Cunningham released statements confirming Belichick's commitment to nan programme and UNC's support for him.

Since those statements, nan Tar Heels person played better, coming adjacent to wins against Cal and No. 15 Virginia. Though they mislaid some games, it was awesome for them to unit overtime against Virginia and nearly travel distant pinch nan victory, particularly compared to really they had performed vs. powerfulness convention competition.

On Tuesday during Belichick's property conference, a newsman noted that players saw erstwhile Belichick made it clear he was staying arsenic nan clip things started coming together for them. The newsman past asked if Belichick has seen a different squad since he's clarified his committedness to UNC.

"It's ne'er been thing but that. Whoever that communicative came from, it's already been taken down and everything else," Belichick responded. "It's conscionable total—as Trump would say—fake news. It's conscionable a novel. Look, our consistency has been present since nan time that Michael Lombardi and I came successful and started hiring group and came into nan statement successful December. We sewage successful nan aforesaid time and person been doing it mundane and that's nan measurement it's gonna be. I'm judge there's a batch of different group that want to get clicks and views and posts connected 'myface' aliases whatever. It's conscionable a bunch of garbage."

Belichick intelligibly didn't for illustration nan insinuation that his committedness was ever is uncertainty and his squad is playing amended since he's released his statement, moreover though players person suggested that play was a turning constituent for them.

Regardless of what led to nan team's advancement since their nonaccomplishment to Clemson and Belichick initially shutting down those rumors, UNC has shown improvements complete their past 2 games. They will look to move that into their triumph of nan season—and successful complete a month—when they return connected Syracuse this Friday.

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