Thursday Commentary: Unbelievable

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Just when you thought things couldn’t get whackier.

The University of North Carolina is set to introduce 72-year old Bill Belichick as its new head coach this week. The hiring was officially announced on Wednesday.

The move has “W-T-F” written all over it.

Now you’ve gotta be careful who you pay attention to because the world of sports – just like politics – is a game of P.R. spin and things rarely are what they seem.

What do I see?

Well, Belichick seems like the football guy of all football guys and it wasn’t sitting well with him to be out of the game in 2024 after a lifetime on the sidelines.

Don’t think that all the media appearances by Belichick were scratching the football itch.

Because they don’t.

It sounds like the Nashville product had an interview or two last off-season – most notably with Atlanta – but his reputation as a control freak preceded him and when the music stopped in football’s annual game of musical chairs, Bill didn’t have a seat.

Probably pretty embarrassing for an ego-maniac.

Now I’ve never met the guy so perhaps that’s unfair, but I know the type.

This off-season there will assuredly be multiple openings across the NFL with Dallas, the NY Jets and likely Jacksonville being among them.

Did Belichick want to wait on those, knowing there’s a chance he could be frozen out again? Or try his hand in the college ranks where his dad was once coach of the Tar Heels in the 1950s, and try something new?

That’s what it seems like to me.

However talk to any college coach and they’ll tell you that coaching is only a part of the job. Recruiting is at least as important and that’s something Belichick’s never done at that level.

And that part of the game’s become so gruesome that it caused Alabama’s Nick Saban to get out of it altogether.

And at age 72 Belichick’s going to give it a whirl?

Unbelievable.

That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary.

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