The 2025 season nears the final lap, but the trust in the North Carolina Tar Heels’ head coach is MIA. Bill Belichick’s boys stand with a 3-7 overall record. Fans were already boiling. Then, a $250 million donor’s remark ignited the hate. After cruising past two soft foes, UNC slammed into the Wake Forest wall, falling 28-12. The analyst might defend Belichick off the field, but poor coaching earns zero immunity.

The founder of Barstool Sports, the $250 million Michigan Wolverines Booster, Dave Portnoy, dished out his blunt take on Belichick. On November 15th, he wrote on X, “Belichick needs to retire.  This is disgusting.  I’m not even sure he knows the score or where he is.” Portnoy exposing Belichick is not something new. 

Back in October, the Tar Heels were off to a dismal 2-3 start this season. Belichick’s boys were outscored 120-33 in those three losses, an average margin of 29 points per game. That made Portnoy come up with his bitter review. “I think this experiment will be done. I want Belichick out of college football,” Portnoy said. “He’s my idol. He won me a ton of Super Bowls. [He’s] not a college guy.” A month later, the condition has only worsened instead of getting better.

Belichick’s program’s scoring chances went up in smoke at Wake Forest. Six drives, six FG attempts from Rece Verhoff, two blocked, one 57-yarder to cap the half for a program record. Yet another poor record got added to Belichick’s name. Under him, the loss marked North Carolina’s first to Wake Forest since 2019, snapping a four-game run of dominance.

UNC’s offense hit the skids, under 300 yards and no TD for the first time all season. Wake Forest QB Robby Ashford fumbled on a designed keeper, and Carlos Hernandez scooped it up, racing 50 yards for a jaw-dropping early score. Belichick’s linebacker Khmori House whiffed a tackle and couldn’t finish a sack, setting up a near-big play through the air that fell incomplete.

How rough has it been under Belichick? UNC’s first season with the rookie head coach has produced its worst start against Power Four foes since 1888. Meanwhile, it’s not the first time the Tar Heels’ head coach has been found out of touch with his program. 

Blocked at college, Bill Belichick’s NFL lifeline looks shaky 

During UNC’s 2-2 bye week, rookie head coach Belichick jetted off to Nantucket with girlfriend Jordon Hudson. A romantic getaway while the program hung in the balance? Well, that raised eyebrows. After all, we have seen legends like Nick Saban and the present head coach, Dan Lanning, use the dead week to make the best of the recruiting trail. 

But Belichick reportedly was more interested in selling his Nantucket property, which he bought in 2014, spending $2.45 million. He’s blocked at every turn in college football. However, the NFL always kept a safety net for Belichick, his six Super Bowl rings acting as a shield. But even that lifeline looks shaky now. 

The New York Giants have shown Brian Daboll an exit door, and college football head coaches’ names like Lane Kiffin have picked up the buzz. That’s because of the Jaxson Dart factor coming into play. Quite naturally, Belichick, still smelling of the NFL, caught up in the buzz. But the reporter for NBC Sports Boston threw cold water on the chances.

“I don’t know. I know that UNC’s won their last two games against powerhouses, Syracuse and Stanford. And I just feel like his time has run out in the NFL. If teams wanted to hire him, they would have hired him when he was available and not doing anything at all, but he had to go to UNC,” said Trenni Casey.  With Brian Daboll’s Giants chapter closing, Bill Belichick feels it, too. He was the last active NFL head coach from Belichick’s tree, and now the legendary coaching lineage has finally withered.