Belichick / UNC

[Steelperch]

Anyone else enjoying watching Bill Belichick and his son get absolutely boat raced by TCU? Might Belichick actually be complete ass as a football coach?

84-103 career record in the NFL without Tom Brady
11 seasons as HC without Brady, 0 division titles, 1 playoff win

Fuck this guy.

[steelmann58]

artie smith watching closely

[CKSteeler]

I think things were starting to pass him by in general. He was generally adaptive but he's still a conservative minded defensive coach at heart and the league is just different. This is especially true at the college level.

And is Belichick really a guy who can sell dumb 18 year old athletes on UNC? He can apparently relate to precocious 24 year old coeds and all, but he's not a flashy guy.

[Ice]

Patricia in college > The whole Bellichick family in college.

[.Kodiak]

First two series of the game, I was like "damn, did Ernie come onboard, too?"

Then after the next few series, I was like "nope"

[Thrillsseeker]

First two series of the game, I was like "damn, did Ernie come onboard, too?"

Then after the next few series, I was like "nope"

Fantastic.

[StillerDownSouth]

TCU Football twitter was having a field day, that was the best part.

[Thrillsseeker]

Heard fans already calling for Bill to resign.

Lmao

[Charles Demarr]

Bill will go the Urban Meyer route with a mysterious heart issue. Guarantee when goes (this year), it will be because of "Health."

[Ice]

Urban Meyer in the NFL or Bill Bellichick in the NCAA... discuss.

[CKSteeler]

First two series of the game, I was like "damn, did Ernie come onboard, too?"

Then after the next few series, I was like "nope"

You know, I find this to be a more plausible explanation for why he's lost "it" than the Brady thing. People forget those early years just how confounding those defenses were to the best QB's in the league. Manning had a MVP season and then put up 3 points in the playoffs against them while turning the ball over repeatedly.

Ernie was by all accounts a real fucking genius with a photographic memory who did nothing but consume football and break it down into a detailed system. He had reports on everyone. Not to mention for a time the signals teams were using. He had insane details. He could according to the accounts tell you about some trick or two point play or that kind of shit that a team ran in the '70's in intricate detail. He of course had reports on the key plays that every coordinator and coach liked to run in key situations.

If there was a secret sauce to the Pats run, it was Ernie. Brady iwas obviously great, but he doesn't become Brady on most teams. He took years to develop and become the guy he was in the second half of his career. He was a very moldable individual and had the right traits to succeed. But it's a far easier and more consumable narrative to say it was Brady than some guy in the shadows who was simply a hell of a lot smarter than most of the schmucks NFL teams employ.

Ex-jocks aren't exactly going to provide a deep pool of intellectuals to draw upon for coaching , scouting, and front office positions.