If the UNC Tar Heels do fire or move on from Bill Belichick, it won't be a huge surprise. Virtually nothing has gone right in this young pairing, with a fumble on the goal line of a go-ahead touchdown leading to a loss on the road being the latest example.
It remains to be seen what North Carolina will do, but they have ample reason to want to move on. The program has been turned into a little bit of a sideshow in his tenure, and the on-field product has been bad. Not being able to fully recruit and having to use the portal is a valid excuse, but this stat illustrates how bad Belichick's area of expertise has been.
Belichick has always been a defensive mastermind. That's his bread and butter, and he's a seven-time Super Bowl champion because of it. It just has not followed him to UNC. Per ESPN, the Tar Heels are 95th out of 136 college football teams in defensive stop rate. On only 56.9% of plays does a Belichick-led defense make a stop.
They're also yielding 2.55 points per drive, which is a pretty bad metric as well. The defense has just been totally unable to make stops consistently, which should've been something Belichick could scheme up more successfully. If he can't bring defensive acumen to the college game, what can he bring?
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