Bill Belichick seems to like UNC more than Patriots

Bill Belichick’s first season leading North Carolina’s football program is drawing near, and the eight-time Super Bowl winning head coach seems to like working at the college level.

In an interview with the Boston Globe this week, the former Patriots coach was asked what the biggest difference is between the NFL and his new job.

“It’s a much more cohesive, and I’d say unified, view of what we’re trying to do and how we’re trying to do it,” Belichick said, via the Boston Globe’s Ben Volin this week, speaking about the differences between coaching in the NFL vs. college. “It’s a lot of football, and there’s not much in your way.

“There’s no owner, there’s no owner’s son, there’s no cap, everything that goes with the marketing and everything else, which I’m all for that. But it’s way less of what it was at that level,” Belichick said.

That was an apparent shot at Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his son, Jonathan.

“Generic NFL teams, you have the owner, president, general manager, personnel director, college director, pro director, cap guy, some other consultant, then head coach,” he said. “I’d say when we had our best years in New England, we had fewer people and more of a direct vision. And as that expanded, it became harder to be successful.”

After parting ways with the Patriots last year ,Belichick interviewed for the vacant Falcons head coaching job that ultimately went to Raheem Morris. Belichick then took the head coaching job at North Carolina that December.

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Bridget Hyland may be reached at [email protected].