Finebaum reporting Belichick looking for a buyout

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IMO he has fired himself by a performance that has taken him , as numerous commentators are saying, from being called the greatest coach in football history to saying he obviously was a fraud hiding behind Tom Brady's superior play.

If you watched the games UNC played he literally never spoke in to the headset. He may have just not recognized his own cognitive failures, sadly.
 
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I don't know why he took the UNC job to begin with. Then again, I don't understand what would make a man start a relationship with a woman young enough to be his granddaughter. Perhaps the answer to both questions is the same...

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Savannahbayvol said:
Not confirmed. Took a vacation last week during off week.

Correction PF reporting someone else reporting it. Not confirmed by Finebaum.
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During Tennessee's open week, Heupel was bouncing all around the southeast attending high school games and not on vacation.

Maybe hiring a guy who never coached a day in college and had no idea what the job really required wasn't the most well thought out idea.
 
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Someone could have once been the greatest coach in history and still not be successful later in his career. Both are possible, and I think that's the case with Bill. Overestimation of his skills and ego probably pushed him into believing this could work. Or his skills could have diminished, not been very applicable to the college game/athlete/rules. Or some combination of both.

Either way, it's a lesson that other schools should consider in the future. Having the name and success somewhere else doesn't guarantee it can be replicated. It's usually not just the coach or a player that won those championships. It's a combination of many things going right at the same time. Making it happen again is not impossible, but very, very difficult.

See Jimmy Johnson, Mike Ditka, Jimbo Fisher, as other examples.
 
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Okie said:
Someone could have once been the greatest coach in history and still not be successful later in his career. Both are possible, and I think that's the case with Bill. Overestimation of his skills and ego probably pushed him into believing this could work. Or his skills could have diminished, not been very applicable to the college game/athlete/rules. Or some combination of both.

Either way, it's a lesson that other schools should consider in the future. Having the name and success somewhere else doesn't guarantee it can be replicated. It's usually not just the coach or a player that won those championships. It's a combination of many things going right at the same time. Making it happen again is not impossible, but very, very difficult.

See Jimmy Johnson, Mike Ditka, Jimbo Fisher, as other examples.
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He was a horrible head coach at Cleveland (yeah, its Cleveland, I get it), great at NE with Brady(with a number of cheating scandals), bad at NE without Brady and an absolute disaster at UNC.

So to say he might be overrated as a head coach is certainly valid
 
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UNC 247 mod:

"I have not had time to go through this entire thread, but I just spoke with a source very close to the situation and the report about Belichick discussing a buyout has been denied."
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
I don't know why he took the UNC job to begin with. Then again, I don't understand what would make a man start a relationship with a woman young enough to be his granddaughter. Perhaps the answer to both questions is the same...

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I think his GF had some connection with UNC and urged him to take the job. His buyout is only $1mil, UNC should can him. They’re laughable on the field. His GF deal probably doesn’t go over well with some of the big boosters…!
 
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Volle said:
I think his GF had some connection with UNC and urged him to take the job. His buyout is only $1mil, UNC should can him. They’re laughable on the field. His GF deal probably doesn’t go over well with some of the big boosters…!
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The $1 million is the buyout on his end.

NC fires him and it's a $20 million check to BB
 
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Volle said:
I think his GF had some connection with UNC and urged him to take the job. His buyout is only $1mil, UNC should can him. They’re laughable on the field. His GF deal probably doesn’t go over well with some of the big boosters…!
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His buyout is $30 million. He owes them $1 million if he chooses to leave. On top of his the guarantees for his assistants it's pushing $40 million
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
I don't know why he took the UNC job to begin with. Then again, I don't understand what would make a man start a relationship with a woman young enough to be his granddaughter. Perhaps the answer to both questions is the same...

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Yeah…when he could have a nice slice of age-appropriate septuagenarian cake on his plate, why would he be interested in that…
 
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