The UNC Tar Heels continue to try and build the New England Patriots 2.0.
With Bill and Steve Belichick already at Chapel Hill, they will now bring another member of the Belichick household.
As Matt Zenitz reported on X, the Tar Heels are expected to hire Brian Belichick as their new safeties coach.
North Carolina is expected to hire Brian Belichick as safeties coach, sources tell @cbssports/@247Sports.
Belichick spent the last nine years with the Patriots, including the last five as safeties coach. Highly respected around the New England building.https://t.co/qOetA1iLiU pic.twitter.com/q8aej46358
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) February 8, 2025
Belichick is the youngest son of the legendary head coach, and he spent the past nine years with the Patriots organization.
He joined the team as a personnel assistant back in 2016 before climbing his way up to coaching assistant the following year.
He was promoted to safeties coach in 2020, where he has spent the last five years in that role.
Steve Belichick, on the other hand, will be the Tar Heels’ new defensive coordinator.
He spent the past 12 years as a defensive assistant in Foxboro before serving as the Washington Huskies’ defensive coordinator last season.
The Tar Heels have never been known as a football program.
Belichick faces a challenging task ahead, as he now aims to elevate a basketball program to football prominence, which is much easier said than done.
Then again, having an NFL-caliber coaching staff should be more than enough to get started on the right foot.
Watching Belichick take a job in college was one of the most surprising turns of events in recent sports history.
Clearly, he just wanted to stay close to the game for as long as he could, even if it wasn’t in the pros.
