College football first-year coach grades: Bill Belichick gets 'D' after rough season at North Carolina

[BleedGopher]

Per CBS:

North Carolina​

Bill Belichick: D

No hire was more hyped and failed worse than Bill Belichick in 2025. There was so much buzz leading up to the Tar Heels' season debut which got prime-time national TV coverage and had program celebrities Michael Jordan and Lawrence Taylor in attendance. UNC got crushed, 48-14, and it set the tone for what was to come. A UNC team that was always going to have talent deficiencies still looked like less than the sum of its parts. The only team UNC beat that finished with a winning record was FCS Richmond. For all the offseason drama UNC had to withstand because of Belichick, the 2025 results had to be hard to swallow. Record: 4-8

Purdue​

Barry Odom: D

Barry Odom inherited a tough situation and did little to improve upon it. Like his predecessor, Ryan Walters in 2024, Odom went winless in Big Ten conference play. Purdue's lone wins came against FCS Southern Illinois and a 4-8 Ball State team. Odom has proven himself as a solid coach and the Boilermakers seemed to play hard for him, but it was a disappointing debut nonetheless. Record: 2-10

College football first-year coach grades: Bill Belichick gets 'D' at UNC

How did the first-year coaches grade out after their debut campaigns in 2025?

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Go Gophers!!

 

[Gophers1992]

I thought he was giving D more so than getting D.

 

[MNVCGUY]

I'm actually a little surprised he didn't step down already so that UNC could go a different direction. Guess he is planning to stick it out for another year.....

 

[WHB Brewer]

I'm actually a little surprised he didn't step down already so that UNC could go a different direction. Guess he is planning to stick it out for another year.....

I think if the NFL came calling, he would jump. But none are likely to give him the "full control" he wants and had at New England and ran into the ground. UNC will have a long runway to try and land into something respectable, but I don't expect that to happen. Bill should have stayed retired, but I doubt his ego would allow that