North Carolina made one of the biggest coaching hires in college football history when it inked a deal with six-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick to Chapel Hill.
The terms of that massive deal for Belichick were released yesterday and can be found here.
On top of his own paycheck and incentives, UNC football also revealed the budget that it has given Belichick to create a football staff around him.
This includes assistant coaches, strength staff, support staff, and revenue sharing. Currently, Belichick has hired just two people who fit that criteria, Freddie Kitchens as an assistant coach and Michael Lombardi as football general manager.
According to the contract release, Belichick has $10 million to spend on assistant coaches salaries. It is yet to be seen who will join Belichick on the sidelines, but there is a strong assumption that at least his son, Steve Belichick, will become the defensive coordinator in place of Geoff Collins.
He also has:
$10 million "assistant coach salary pool"
$1 million for strength staff
$5.3 million for support staff, including GM
$13 million as "revenue sharing" https://t.co/soVuZsv71n— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) December 12, 2024
Belichick was awarded $5.3 million for support staff, which is where the hire of Lombari as general manager will fall, $1 million for strength staff for the football team, and $13 in an increase revenue sharing pool
North Carolina is making a strong statement that it wants to join the football frenzy, and it wants to do it sooner rather than later. Expect Belichick to drop some hefty hires in the coming weeks as well as hit the transfer portal.
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