- North Carolina fans left early during a game against Clemson after falling behind 28-3 in the first quarter.
- Coach Bill Belichick’s first season with the Tar Heels has been challenging, with the team on its way to a third significant loss.
- Belichick, who joined North Carolina in the offseason, stated he is focused on rebuilding the team through recruiting.
North Carolina football and coach Bill Belichick might already be looking to next season, and so are its fans.
Tar Heels fans are already starting to leave in droves after Clemson’s touchdown gave the Tigers a 28-3 lead just before the end of the first quarter. North Carolina has two wins against Charlotte and Richmond this season, but is on its way to its third huge defeat this season.
Clemson has been quite the disappointment this season as well, although to a different degree. The Tigers entered the season has a trendy national championship pick before dropping three of their first four games to LSU, Georgia Tech and Syracuse.
UNC’s student section looked even worse at halftime, with the Tar Heels trailing 35-3.
North Carolina turned to a new quarterback in Week 6, as veteran Max Johnson started over South Alabama transfer Gio Lopez. Johnson, who started his career at LSU before transferring to Texas A&M and then North Carolina, entered the game with 6,094 career passing yards and 49 touchdowns in six seasons.
Belichick, who won six Super Bowls as the New England Patriots head coach, made a shocking move in the offseason by joining the college ranks for the first time in his career. The 73-year-old coach is the oldest in college football, and the experiment hasn’t gone well so far.
‘We’ve got a big recruiting class coming in,’ Belichick said on ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ on Saturday, Oct. 4. ‘We missed a couple recruiting classes from the last two years. We only got just a handful of players that are playing. So we’ll get try to build through the recruiting classes and supplement that with some transfer guys, but we need a couple good recruiting classes, and I think we’re on the way to getting those. Excited about it.’
North Carolina fans are certainly hoping Belichick is right.
