Bill Belichick has amassed 333 total coaching victories in the NFL, second only to the late Don Shula. He coached the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories and served as defensive coordinator on two Super Bowl-winning editions of the New York Giants. He possesses a genius-level knowledge of the NFL, not just in terms of X’s and O’s but also the A-B-C’s of the game’s rich history. And yet his pivot to college football — he was introduced Thursday as the new head coach at the University of North Carolina — has been met with varying degrees of skepticism, raised eyebrows and even outright hilarity.
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