UNC posts Drake Maye tweet amid Bill Belichick-Patriots controversy

Mike Moraitis

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It only took North Carolina about 11 hours to post something positive about its  former quarterback and New England Patriots signal-caller Drake Maye.

Maye pulled off the biggest win of his NFL career on Sunday night against the Buffalo Bills, yet UNC's socials were silent.

Later on, it was reported that UNC head coach Bill Belichick had a directive out to not tweet anything Patriots-related because of his bad blood with the franchise. That would mean no celebrating Maye, either.

However, a shade under two hours after the report from 247 Sports' Ross Martin, North Carolina finally dropped a pro-Maye tweet.

"[Drake Maye] pulling off some magic, where have we seen this before," Carolina Football posted to X.

"According to sources inside the UNC football program, it is a directive from the staff (Bill Belichick) to not tweet/retweet anything Patriots-related," Martin's report on Monday read. "That's clearly why UNC football has not posted anything from Drake Maye's electric primetime win over the Buffalo Bills."

So, one of four things likely happened here:

1. UNC said screw Belichick after the backlash.

2. A social media manager went rogue.

3. Belichick wanted to shoot down the report by posting the tweet.

4. The report was untrue.

Considering how petty Belichick has already shown himself to be after banning Pats staff from the facility, for example, we would rule out No. 4.

We also don't believe that UNC would go against Belichick, nor would a social media manager, who would almost certainly get canned if they did.

The most likely answer is Belichick wanted to do damage control and try and make the report look wrong by having that tweet sent out.

Whatever the case may be, the tweet is probably too little, too late for Belichick to save face in what is just a weird situation.

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Mike Moraitis

Mike Moraitis is a freelance writer who covers the NFL for the Sporting News. Over his nearly two decades covering sports, Mike has also worked for Bleacher Report, USA TODAY and FanSided. He hates writing in the third person.