Bill Belichick reveals what he loves about lacrosse

Bill Belichick is a huge fan of the sport of lacrosse and we’re sure that if he could play or coach the sport right now, he might just do it. Heck, there’s a pretty good lacrosse program right at North Carolina.

It remains to be seen how involved or at least seen Belichick will be at North Carolina lacrosse, considering the spring football schedule. But his love for the sport won’t go away.

With the way Belichick describes lacrosse, you can see the similarities in his approach to football. We can still hold out hope that he’ll coach lacrosse at some sort of level!

“I mean it’s a great sport,” Belichick said, via The College GameDay Podcast. “It’s a lot of speed, it’s a lot of skill with the stick, and it’s contact. You get into some strategy, you know Man Up, Man Down situation, stuff like that. So it’s a great combination of skills, and it’s a lot of fun to play.”

His love for the game goes back awhile, having grown up around and playing the sport. Belichick eventually played lacrosse at Wesleyan University, where he also played football. Belichick was the captain of the lacrosse team during his senior year of college.

The longtime head coach’s daughter Amanda also played lacrosse at Wesleyan University and eventually became the head coach of the College of the Holy Cross. Not only that, but his defensive coordinator, son Stephen Belichick, played football and lacrosse at Rutgers, another regularly successful Division 1 lacrosse program. His third child Brian, who’s an assistant coach at UNC as well, played lacrosse growing up and played at Trinity College.

The sport runs in the family and that’s putting it lightly. Heck, if Belichick is highly successful as a football coach at the collegiate level, maybe the Tar Heels’ lacrosse program will let him on staff at some point!

For now, the focus is on football for Belichick as the Tar heels have work to do before opening the season against TCU. It’s a familiar feeling for TCU coach Sonny Dykes. In fact, he had jokes about going up against another high-profile coach in the first game of the year.

“Not sure how we pulled that off,” Dykes said with a laugh while speaking with ESPN’s Andrea Adelson at the Big 12 spring meetings. “It’s called bad scheduling.”

The 2023 matchup against Colorado turned into a crazy game as TCU wound up falling to the Buffaloes 45-42. That signaled the start of the Deion Sanders era in Boulder before the program re-joined the Big 12 to become conference foes with the Horned Frogs.