Six-time Tremendous Bowl-winning head coach Invoice Belichick has agreed to a five-year deal to change into the subsequent coach on the College of North Carolina (UNC).
The faculty confirmed the signing on Wednesday night time, roughly every week after 72-year-old Belichick’s identify surfaced as an unlikely candidate to switch the programme’s most successful-ever coach Mack Brown.
The deal requires approval by UNC trustees, with a press convention unveiling Belichick to be held in the end.
“I am excited for the opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill,” he stated.
“I grew up around college football with my dad and treasured those times. I have always wanted to coach in college and now I look forward to building the football programme in Chapel Hill.”
UNC athletics director Bubba Cunningham: “We all know that school athletics is altering, and people modifications require new and progressive pondering.
“Bill Belichick is a football legend, and hiring him to lead our programme represents a new approach that will ensure Carolina football can evolve, compete and win – today and in the future.”
The college introduced final month that Brown wouldn’t return for a seventh season in his second stint in Chapel Hill.
Shifting on from Brown, 73, to rent Belichick, 72, means UNC are turning to a coach who has by no means labored on the school degree, but had unbelievable success within the NFL alongside quarterback Tom Brady all through most of his 24-year tenure with the Patriots, which ended final season.
Belichick had been linked to NFL jobs within the time since, notably the Atlanta Falcons in January.
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