Bill Belichick sends message to North Carolina fans after 2-3 start to season

Bill Belichick wants the North Carolina fanbase to keep the faith as the Tar Heels roll on in the 2025 season. UNC dropped to 2-3 on the year following a 38-10 loss to Clemson Saturday at home.

You would think 2-3 isn’t that bad on the surface, but UNC and Belichick have only lost to Power Four opponents while beating FCS ones. In their three losses, North Carolina has been outscored 120-33.

But Belichick promises things will get better as long as UNC keeps its collective head down. When that will happen remains to be seen.

“We’re going to keep working and keep grinding,” Belichick said, as he shrugged his shoulders, postgame. “We’re going to move on the right track here, so.”

North Carolina trailed 28-3 after the first quarter and fans could be seen exiting not too long after. It was a brutal display for the Tar Heels who were left searching for answers once again. Considering Clemson’s own struggles this season, it was a tough pill to swallow.

“A disappointing outcome for us today,” Belichick said as he began his postgame thoughts. “I thought we had a good week. I think we were ready to go, and unfortunately we gave some big plays early in the game that really tilted the game, and we’re just never able to recover. The big plays in the passing game, I mean, we probably gave up 200 yards of passing on five plays. Three alignment penalties that were all our fault. So we just got to do a better job of coaching, a better job playing, and just eliminate the mistakes that are fixable.”

Belichick instituting a whole new staff, 70+ players, a lot through the portal and never having coached college before was always going to be a challenge. But to be completely overwhelmed as a team so far it quite the sight to behold, considering there’s a lot of self-inflicted errors.

“Well, they don’t (happen) all the time, but they happened two or three critical times today,” Belichick said. “Lack of concentration, and we need to do a better job coaching. … We have an illegal formation three times. We just can’t make those mistakes. When the players make them, that’s obviously bad. But the fact that they happen is part of that’s coaching too. So I’ll take my share of the responsibility on that. We got to do a better job of coaching.”

North Carolina Belichick hit a much needed bye week this week. They’ll return to action on Friday, October 17th at Cal.