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WRAL's Brian Murphy interviewed Bill Belichick on Tuesday at the ACC Spring Meetings in Amelia Island, Florida, about the burst in attention on the UNC football program, why he opted to get back into the game and his expectations for this season.  Belichick did not take questions about his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson.

Bill Belichick on venture into college football: 'I just love coaching'

Hi, I'm Brian Murphy with WIL News. We're here at Amelia Island, Florida at the ACC spring meetings, and we're talking with UNC football coach Bill Belichick about the attention that his program has gotten since his hire in December and how he plans to rebuild the Tar Heel football program. The question that we didn't ask was about Jordan Hudson, his girlfriend, and creative muse. UNC asked that we keep questions to football. Here is our full unedited interview with Bill Belichick. When you took this job, that there would be so much attention that you would bolster the profile of Carolina football this much. Uh, you know, I wasn't really focused on that, uh, Brian. It was more just to come in and you know try to work with Michael Lombardi and our staff and try to put together a good team and a good program and represent the school well on the football field, and that's that's really what we're trying to do. So glad people are excited, but really just focused more on the product and delivering. Has it surprised you at all that that so many people want to hear about Bill Belichick at Carolina so much interest you guys are going to Ireland. Yeah. Well, that's a long way off. We got a full season ahead of us before that, but yeah, that'll be exciting. But no, the sport's been amazing. The alumni, Carolina fans, and great response from the players, the people there that are on the football staff and on the team, how hard they worked and their commitment to doing the best they can and try to put a good team together. Can I ask you what motivates you to stay in coaching? You've accomplished probably more than anybody who's ever picked up a whistle, and now you're you're kind of starting over in college. What what are you trying to prove? What do you have left to prove? and maybe to who do you have anything to prove? Yeah, I just love coaching. I love all the aspects of it. I love the team building. I love. The fundamentals working with players, strategy, game competition, and just the whole process. Football has been good to me. It's been good to my family. I grew up in a football family, with my dad and around Navy football and a lot of great players and coaches. Interacted with the NFL. So, um, it's just, it's fun to be a part of a team. You mentioned your dad's connection to UNC when, when you got the job. Was, was UNC like a sort of a specific school that you would have come to or Pitt or Maryland or Oklahoma State had called, would you have entertained, you know, more options than than just North Carolina? UNC special because of the brand. It's a great academic school. It's a great athletic tradition and the fact that there were some roots there for me early in my life that was coming full circles was a good feeling. What surprised you the most, good or bad, about being the head coach at North Carolina? Um, I've just enjoyed the process, really enjoyed the people, uh, sport's been great. um, it's a great opportunity, and, uh, you know, I just appreciate every day at Carolina. You've, uh, you've turned your roster over through the transfer portal, including after spring ball. How difficult, you know, you're only gonna have a couple of weeks of fall practice. How difficult will it be to build a cohesive team, a winning team with just a couple of weeks to kind of pull all the pieces together. Well, it's not dissimilar to the model that we had in the NFL where after the draft and free agency signing and all that, you bring in about a third of your team is brand new and so we'll be somewhere in that range when we start fall camp, but we'll have a couple of months with them here in the summer and we've had a good spring with a lot of these guys as well, so. It is what it is. I mean all schools have a similar situation, maybe not quite the same numbers, but some degree of freshmen coming in and transfer portals, some more than others, but we'll take it as it comes and excited to have the players that we have and work with them. I know you like to talk about you don't want to set expectations. You just want to get better every day, but what does success look like for you at North Carolina? Get better every day, coming in and having a good day, having a productive day, and then rest, recovery. And do another one tomorrow and keep stacking them on top of each other. That's how he achieves success, his consistency and the discipline to do it repeatedly over and over. That that's what we're going to try to do. We'll let the process play out, but it's important that we develop a good solid routine. How important was it that you get to work with people like Michael Lombardi, your sons? You have a lot of, I guess people call Belichick guys around you as you embark on this on this adventure. Well, we have a few, Brian, but we also have, you know, well over 200 years of NFL experience on the roster and various capacities from our chef to our nutritionist, strength training. Scouting operations and so forth. So it's really important that we provide the student athletes with a great experience and everything they need to be successful, and then if they put in the work and we do a good job developing, then hopefully they can achieve their individual goals and collectively we can achieve our team goals. So that's what we're about. Two quick ones. You have a quarterback, it looks like in Geo Lopez. How are you going to handle that quarterback battle when it comes to the fall and who do you think might even be in that competition? Yeah, well, the competition is always in the hands of the players. I can't control performance, so we'll give everybody an opportunity to let the players compete, and we'll see how it all turns out. We're excited to have a competition, not only a quarterback, but really at most every position on the field, and again it will be up to the players to perform and earn those spots. Everything will be earned and we're not handed anything out. It'll be competitive. The guys will get what they earn and they're all competed hard, they're working hard and so look forward to seeing what that brings. You've certainly got a lot of attention here in the last couple of months. What's it like to be with football guys talking football? I know you have some old friends in there, Bill O'Brien, Frank Reich. What's it been like to be at these meetings and, and really getting into the season? Oh yeah, it's been great, you know, it's been great to talk about some of the things, you know, the ACC college football, things that you know all of us are involved in it's a certainly a new model here for college football, NIL, Revshare and other things that are being discussed with the House settlement that are sort of in the air, but they're sort of coming together. Uh, so just everybody's trying to figure it out and, um, you know, get ready for the season. Uh, um, how much are you talking in those meetings? Obviously, you know, you're a respected voice when it comes to football, but you know there are people who've been coaching college football a lot longer, so are you speaking up or are you, uh, you sitting back and kind of taking it all in? Oh, I'm listening to people like that, but we've had a lot of success and I've been doing it a long time. Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. OK, thank you. OK thanks.

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