Mike Golic Jr
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 20 Oct
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And so many people have been talking about it as a dormant power at a basketball school that's got the geographic location working for it, the young alumni base, the resources and stuff, and say, I'll take this place and I'll do with it what no one's been able to do in the 21st century with that school, despite everyone else. I wouldn't rule that out for a guy that competitive.
I do feel the age in that thing because my initial gut reaction was no, we probably haven't because this still seems like a guy that that record does mean enough to get talked about the way it does and only being 14 shy of tying 15 shy of beating. But you're right. I mean, he's walking into college football already is the oldest coach there.
was in the NFL, all of his peers have been forced out or retired. Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown at North Carolina. And so, yeah, I just don't see how if he really is here legitimately and not just going to dine and dash after one year, which if he's got the tie in with his son, I don't know how that would work. All these different things that maybe say he'd be here for at least a few years.
Then, yeah, I do think it's increasingly hard to imagine an NFL team hiring Bill Belichick in his mid 70s to come there and try and lead your franchise.
I'm sure he could get it figured out just fine.
That's the funniest part about this, though, is because the attention economy is loving this right now, everyone's going to be like, oh, this is like Dion in Colorado. No, it is not. It is certainly a spectacle in the same way, but you're not going to get Bill Belichick hosting his own talk show on Tuesdays and inside the North Carolina Tar Heels looking the way they had on Amazon Prime.
And just in general, Deion is a showman by nature. That is who he is at his core. Bill Belichick, I mean... Maybe we get the version of Bill that lets his hair down now. He's got the young girlfriend. He's away from the NFL and all these parts tied to his legacy. So maybe he does just relax a little bit.
But more than likely, he's going to be the same guy he's always been, which is not going to grab people by the horns the same way Dion did or piss people off, quite frankly, as much as Dion did on the front end of his time there.
I did wonder, twofold to Billy's point, how much Bill's son and his experience, because Bill was up at Washington a bunch. He was around there. They talked about it. Jed Fish, I think, has Belichick ties somewhere in his past, the head coach now at Washington. But then also what Nick Saban's told him, like Bill and Nick worked together.
They obviously have kind of been in lockstep their whole careers. And Nick Saban left for all the reasons that we're curious why Bill Belichick would go to college for.
Yeah, I would agree in general. And I think your point, the relative standard of this, because that's the thing I've talked about with like Kenny Dillingham and Dan Lanning and a bunch of these young coaches who got their first head coaching jobs during all this change. Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame, they don't know a world as head coaches anymore.
without the current things that they're balancing in this job as the standard. If you are Nick Saban and the rest of these coaches that have been around for decades in the sport and have watched it more from this thing you knew how to do very well to something that feels totally foreign, yeah, I could understand that.
And so Bill coming in without any priors and a skill set that is closer is a reason I thought, hey, this is less far-fetched than it originally looked on the surface.
That is the one part that worries me, not not being able to control him because, you know, you you ceded control to Bill Belichick for all the things that we mentioned. But it's the fact that like in the NFL, when you look at teams that are bad for a long time and do they have their house in order organizationally? We're watching that play out for the Bears in real time right now.
And when you hear about the supposed rift or like infighting or however you want to label it between Bubba Cunningham, the athletic director at North Carolina and their board of trustees. not being on the same page on how they wanted to handle the dismount of Mack Brown and not being on the same page for who they were going after for this next candidate.
That's what worries me in this day and age where you've got so many cooks in the kitchen between the board of trustees and the athletic director and the collectives all trying to go and govern these things that if you have fracture and dissent among there, I think those are the programs that are going to struggle the most in a world now that requires more organization and unity on that level than ever before.
Like Florida State? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that one, like this, this all makes me wonder like, all right, now if Bill Belichick is looking at college, cause remember we went through all this last summer when Jeff Halfley and a couple of those guys left for NFL jobs and people were like, Oh man,
Look, you're driving out these great leaders from the college game by giving players rights and money, and it's so scary, and we're going to lose all these great men. And now Bill Belichick's going the opposite direction. It does make me wonder, like, hey, for Ohio State and all the conversation they've had there about Ryan Day, Mike Vrabel is pie in the sky for them.
Like, you talk to Ohio State fans, and they want Mike Vrabel bad around there if it's going to be somebody. And you do wonder now if a guy might look at it and say, all right, This is a little more accessible to me coming from the NFL than it's ever been because of these changes in the sport. I don't know. Vrabel's still younger.
He's probably going to have plenty of suitors, so I don't know if this would apply to him the same way, but your alma mater can do strange things to you.
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