Urban Meyer: 'North Carolina's not going to fire Bill Belichick'

The first four games of the Bill Belichick era at North Carolina have been nothing short of a disaster.

The Tar Heels are 2-2 through four weeks with wins over Charlotte and Richmond. They have dropped both of their power-four games to North Carolina and UCF by a combined score of 82-23. Although his team has not looked competitive at all against good competition, fellow legendary head coach Urban Meyer claimed that there’s no way Belichick will be fired.

“First of all, it’s up to him,” Meyer said on ‘The Triple Option’ podcast. “North Carolina is not going to fire Bill Belichick.”

Belichick took a year away from coaching after spending 24 seasons as the New England Patriots’ head coach before landing in Chapel Hill. Since then, he’s run the program relatively secretively. Along with losing games, he’s made life difficult for NFL scouts, regardless of whether they’re from the Patriots or not. That included sharing blank two-deeps. ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported that it made it difficult for those scouts to know who to look at during their Week 1 game.

“One, North Carolina doesn’t have much talent right now. I understand being old, bitter, grouchy, and angry if life’s been sh*tty. If you’re lonely,” The Volume‘s John Middlekauff said. “If your financial situation’s bad, if you have no hope in life, just being miserable. That is understandable… But when you’re super rich and life’s going pretty well. Someone just paid you $10 million to coach the University of North Carolina when no one else would hire you… life’s not that sh*tty for Bill Belichick.”

Finebaum blasted Belichick earlier this month

Following Carolina’s blowout loss to TCU, ESPN‘s Paul Finebaum blasted Belichick and the program.

“Fairly laughable,” ESPN‘s Paul Finebaum said on The Rich Eisen Show after Carolina’s second game of the season. “I want to be a fan of Bill Belichick, but he makes it impossible. The first game was just an absolute and total disaster on the biggest stage that he probably – not probably, will ever have at North Carolina. The second game meant nothing. They’re playing at Charlotte. Not exactly the bastion of college football.”

“I think he’ll struggle. I think his comments this week may make it even more difficult. Why do you have to continue to be Bill Belichick? I guess, maybe, because you’re 73 years old. But to say what he did about locking the Patriots out, it’s just downright stupid.

“And by the way, we both saw the first game against TCU. Did you see a single prospect on his team that anybody would want to come visit? I didn’t. But in deference to your players, you can’t say that. You want to open the door. But Bill Belichick’s always been a petty, small-minded man. But when you win six Super Bowls and you’re an assistant on two other ones, you can get away with it.”