UNC's Bill Belichick nightmare is 'a complete disaster', even worse than you thought

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"It's all starting at the top, and the boys are being affected," said the parent of a current UNC football player to WRAL News in North Carolina. "I don't fault the players; I fault the leadership that created this toxic environment. There's an individualistic mindset. The boys are young, and they are feeding into it."

Speaking of the Bill Belichick fiasco for the North Carolina Tar Heels football program hasn't been fun for anybody near the program. Bringing in the storied future Hall-of-Fame inductee seemed like an easy slam dunk for the ACC football program. Belichick won a whopping six Super Bowls as an NFL head coach -- the most of any coach in the history of the league. But that success hasn't translated onto the field at the collegiate level, and it seems the reasons aren't entirely football-tied.

The team seems completely disjointed. Sloppy. Incomplete. Worst of all, the team just seems poorly coached. The Tar Heels have only won two games on the year against meager opposition like Richmond and Charlotte. Those won't satiate an angry fanbase while the team is being blown out by TCU, UCF, and a sputtering Clemson team.

Behind the scenes rumors explain what's going on even more than the scoreboard.

"Bill shuts people out. He's limited in what he says," a source shared in that original news story. The atmosphere is unsettled in North Carolina, and losing football games certainly won't aid their struggles.

This isn't the first time that UNC has tried the route of transplanting a coaching legend to revive their football program. Take the Mack Brown era, a coach whose tenure with the Texas Longhorns was, well, legendary. Brown raked in tremendous success in Austin, talliying nine straight 10+ win seasons and winning the 2005 national championship game.

His time at Chapel Hill was underwhelming, and he handed the baton to Belichick after the latter's stay in New England had run its course. UNC's new regime may be faring even worse.

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