Countdown to Kickoff: Surreality Meets Reality as UNC’s Bill Belichick Era Dawns

Posted Sep 1, 2025
After he became one of the final additions to UNC's transfer portal class, there was a time linebacker Andrew Simpson, a hardened veteran whose experiences include the College Football Playoff, sat down for meetings with Bill Belichick and the aura in the room would be impossibly arresting. "I just sit there and understand that I’m in front of greatness." (Inside Carolina)

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