UNC football meets with surprise candidate twice about head coaching job

A second meeting could signify UNC already knows its next head football coach.

The North Carolina Tar Heels are hoping to find their next head football coach sooner than later, with some reports they could have their guy by Sunday, Dec. 8.

We have our own list of top five candidates UNC should hire and a dream coaching list. Tight ends coach/run game coordinator Freddie Kitchens will lead North Carolina through its bowl game, giving the program a great look at the potential of hiring the longtime NFL assistant as its next head coach.

There’s one surprise candidate the Tar Heels interviewed the first week of December: legendary longtime NFL head coach Bill Belichick, who won a record six Super Bowls during his 24 years coaching the New England Patriots.

UNC appears pretty serious about bringing Belichick in to replace Mack Brown, as he met with the program a second time on Thursday, Dec. 5 in New York City.

Belichick and New England mutually agreed to part ways in January. Since then, Belichick has appeared on The Pat McAfee Show and Monday Night Football’s ManningCast.

There’s no guarantee that Belichick will choose North Carolina, though he said he’s open to any coaching gig at this point. As much knowledge as Belichick has, he’d rather be coaching that in the broadcasting booth.

“He has literally been open to all of it (coaching),” a source familiar with Belichick said last month.

Belichick is also credited with developing Tom Brady into the greatest football player of all-time. The Patriots made the NFL postseason in all but two seasons (2002, 2008) under the Belichick-Brady combination, but Belichick’s Patriots missed the postseason in three of its four succeeding seasons without Brady.

While I have some concerns with the Tar Heels hiring an older head coach like Belichick, given that Mack Brown was 73 at the time of his firing, the positives far outweigh the negatives.

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