It’s not the sort of career-capping achievement anyone had in mind, but Bill Belichick really has done something amazing at North Carolina. He has somehow managed to make his job, which was supposed to be coaching the school’s football team but quickly revealed itself as something more like turning the Tar Heels into a version of the Carolina Panthers that everyone can feel even more embarrassed by, less and less tenable with each passing week. The signs that this might wind up embarrassing for all involved were early and public, but the speed with which that has proved out is astonishing all the same. It has reached the point where, with an epic Week 7 battle against Bye staring Bill and his boys in the face, folks are lining up to earhole Belichick on the one thing on which he has always previously been bulletproof.
That would be the football itself. Belichick was, to say the least, never one to rely on his boyish charm, but at the moment that’s about all he has left, in that “I dare you to find it” way.
