Bill Belichick isn’t coaching North Carolina in Saturday’s Fenway Bowl against Connecticut, but he looms over the game and the Tar Heels both.

Patriots players expressed shock that their former coach Bill Belichick was heading to college, and they wondered if his hard-driving style would resonate with younger athletes.

UNC is officially moving into a new era, as the school hired Bill Belichick as the Tar Heels' next head coach earlier this month.

I’m not excited about Bill Belichick as coach for UNC. In the best of scenarios, the Tar Heels will get him for a couple of seasons to establish itself as a player in college football before having to go through this song and dance again.