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Bill Belichick, North Carolina receive scathing report from insider
Bill Belichick and the North Carolina Tar Heels have suffered through a rough start to the 2025 college football season. After making the leap from the NFL to the college ranks, Belichick was expected to quickly build North Carolina into a contender.
Heading into Friday night’s game against California, the Tar Heels were just 2-3 under Belichick.
All year long, negative reports have come out about Belichick. There have even been loud rumblings that North Carolina could consider moving on from the legendary head coach after just one season.
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While it seems much more likely that Belichick will receive at least one more season, things need to improve. He will need to fix a lot of problems that have become very noticeable so far.
With that being said, a new report has been shared about Belichick and the Tar Heels’ football program that are very concerning.
Bruce Feldman of The Athletic made an appearance and shared a scathing report about Belichick and the North Carolina staff.
“It has really been a disastrous start just in terms of, they thought they knew everything, they thought they knew better,” Feldman said. “It’s just been kind of, an interesting window into guys who came from the NFL world, thought they were smarter than everybody else, and the reality is, they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.”
He also shared that Michael Lombardi, the team’s general manager, is considering changing how the program has been running things.
“Here we are, Bill Belichick’s 73 years old…It’s just been kind of, this crazy faceplant that you see from the Tar Heels from the standpoint, of, just thinking this is the way we’re going to do it, we’re the 33rd NFL team,” Feldman said. “It’s not like they’re going up against Ohio State and Georgia and Oregon and getting drummed, they’re losing to mediocre programs.”
Ahead of the 2025 season, there is no doubt that the Tar Heels were overhyped. Belichick may be one of the best head coaches in NFL history, but he has looked like one of the worst head coaches in college football.
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Of course, things can change quickly. Belichick and his staff need to regroup and figure out how to fix things. There is still time to right the ship and get the program back on track.
However, if Belichick and company are unable to do so throughout the remainder of this season and heading into next year, North Carolina may have to consider making a tough decision.
For more North Carolina Tar Heels and Bill Belichick news and more on college football, head to Newsweek Sports.
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North Carolina man extradited to Pa. for $100,000 ATM theft spree: police
A 42-year-old North Carolina man on Tuesday was extradited to Pennsylvania after state police said he stole more than $100,000 from ATMs in Snyder and Union counties.
Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, Antoni J. Garcia-Cordoba, of Raleigh, North Carolina, stole from four ATMs at Central Penn Bank and Trust locations, state police said.
In a five-hour span, Garcia-Cordoba took $43,000 from three separate ATMs in Snyder and Union counties, according to a police report. On Oct. 1, he stole an additional $58,000 from an ATM in Titusville, bringing the total amount stolen to $101,000.
Garcia-Cordoba is charged with two counts of corrupt organizations – employee, a first-degree felony, and two counts of theft by unlawful taking, a third-degree felony.
After being in custody at a jail in Boone County, Missouri, Garcia-Cordoba was extradited to Union County on Tuesday.
He is being held in the Union County Prison after being unable to post $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 13, 2026.
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11 firefighters and 2 others injured after North Carolina house fire and explosion
SALISBURY, N.C. — Eleven firefighters and two other people were injured in a house fire explosion in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, officials said.
Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell said firefighters did not have life-threatening injuries but were getting treated for contusions, concussions and smoke inhalation following the fire Monday evening. Two other people were taken to the hospital, but Parnell said he didn’t know their conditions and couldn’t confirm whether they were in the house at the time of the fire.
The Salisbury Fire Department responded to the single-family home around 5 p.m. and found it engulfed in flames.
Eleven of the 22 firefighters at the scene went inside the house to search for occupants and “get water on that fire,” which preceded the explosion, Panell said at a news conference.
“It was enough force that the outside walls blew out, the roof came up and went back down,” Parnell said.
An investigation of the fire and explosion is continuing.
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Harrison Bertos scores in OT to help Washington beat N.C. State 3-2 and win first Men’s College Cup
CARY, N.C. (AP) — Harrison Bertos scored 1:54 into overtime after Washington blew a two-goal lead in the second half, and the Huskies beat North Carolina State 3-2 to win the Men’s College Cup at First Horizon Stadium on Monday night.
It was the first national championship for unseeded Washington (16-6-2), who became the first team to win six road matches in the tournament — beating six seeded teams along the way under the guidance of coach Jamie Clark. The Huskies won in their second trip to the final after losing 2-0 to Clemson in 2021.
No. 15 seed N.C. State (16-3-4) made the final for the first time behind coach Marc Hubbard. The Wolfpack were aiming for the school’s first national championship since Jim Valvano led the men’s basketball team to the title in 1983.
Zach Ramsey scored unassisted with 1:12 remaining in the first half and Washington took a 1-0 lead into the break. It was only the second time this season that N.C. State trailed at halftime.
Ramsey scored into an empty net after Wolfpack goalkeeper Logan Erb couldn’t corral the ball at the top of the box. It was Ramsey’s second goal of the tournament.
Richie Aman sent a cross to the center of the goal and Joe Dale knocked it in for a 2-0 lead in the 62nd minute.
Donavan Phillip answered in the 66th, scoring with an assist from Nikola Markovic to cut it to 2-1 with his fourth goal of the tournament. The Wolfpack entered 11-0-1 when Phillip scores.
Taig Healy scored the equalizer with 3:28 remaining with assists from Justin Mclean and Calem Tommy.
Egor Akulov had an assist on Bertos’ winner.
Huskies keeper Jadon Bowton, the only remaining player from the 2021 squad, had five saves.
Erb saved six shots for N.C. State, which was the last school to concede a goal this season.
The temperature was 28 degrees when the match between two teams that had never faced each other began.
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