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Ryan Resilio (0:10)
Packed Friday pod for you. We start with Bill Belichick to Chapel Hill. Bill is on to college football. Tom Curran knows Bill well until Bill didn't like him anymore. But he's great to talk to him about it. So Curran's going to join us from back in Boston. NBA. We've got Norman Powell, perhaps the most underrated bucket getter in the NBA. His role with the Clippers, his numbers just raging. And I've got some thoughts on the in season tournament results from earlier this week. And we've got life advice. Have a great weekend. This episode of the Ryan Resilo podcast is presented by State Farm. Bring home a win with an affordable price when you bundle home and auto with the personal price plan. Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can bundle and save with the personal price plan. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. 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And I'm happy for him because I think we can all assume and we know based on his decisions and what he has given his life to, given his life to the sport, that this is what he wants. I know 15 years ago he said, I don't want to be Marv leaving and coaching in my 70s. Well, he's 73 now. But he also admitted years later that he wished he hadn't said that. But when he said it, you know, he's still in his 50s. I think what he did is he made a mistake that a lot of people make. A lot of really successful people make this mistake because you start pretending you think you know who you'll be years later. You know, age is a really weird thing because when you're younger, you make all these assumptions about who you think you'll be and what your priorities will be. And then when you're in it, you're like, all right, well, this isn't that old. And like, I'm not. I'm not done. And I think last year was the first time Belichick was outside of football since, like, 1975. So Bill needs football, and that's cool that he needs football. I, I, in a way, would think it'd be really cool to have, like, this one thing that is, that is so important to you that you never want to not have it in your life. So he's headed down to Chapel Hill. I know that in the Wickersham piece this week, and he went on in more detail with Bill last night for his podcast, but Wickersham wrote this week that a Belichick confident said quote, this is a big fuck you to the NFL by Bill, and that Bill's disgusted with certain elements of today's NFL. Apparently, through this last cycle, right, Belichick and his group were trying to figure out, okay, which teams would be available. Would it be the Bears? The Bears hire him? Would it be Jacksonville? Could it be Dallas potentially, after last year's hiring cycle, where it looked like Atlanta was the only team that really even considered him all that strongly and that felt like it was coming more from ownership. Because there was another piece to this from Wickersham's.com piece with that Atlanta brass, once they had to come together and put their, their top three finalists together for the head coaching gig for the Falcons that Reem Morrison ended up getting, that all of the people that were asked to go give us your top three, no one had Belichick even in their top three. And that's probably where that quote comes from. That also could probably be the birth of Belichick being disgusted because you're thinking, all right, whatever you think of Belich, like, he's not a top three finalist for the Atlanta Falcons by anybody that has influence on that decision being made. But remember, too, when these jobs get really important, okay, it becomes the goal can become more about self preservation than it can become about wins on a Sunday. So if you're handing the keys over to Bill, even if he's telling you not fully handling the, the keys over to him, you're still kind of handing the keys over to Bill Belichick because, like, what's a reduced role, Bill Belichick, like, in an NFL, like, if you're bringing them in, you're doing it his way. And so the people that are probably going, I don't know that he's a finalist, may not be thinking about the football piece of it as much as they're thinking about their own future. And the reason we'd even come to this, because as much as I think Belichick's, you know, I don't, I don't really know. I guess we, if we wanted to make an argument, we make anything, an argument. But if he's not the greatest coach of his time, he's the greatest coach of all time. And when it came to a team being prepared or a team adapting, I'll never forget, like when they were rolling, rolling, when I still, like cared about the team and the games and that kind of stuff, when I was still like in my fan mode, it was the most amazing feeling being a fan of a Belichick coach team. Because whatever wasn't working or was whatever was disconnected in the first half, you just knew they were going to figure it out and they would come out in the second half and they'd have solved the problem. Doesn't mean they were going to win every single game. But whatever was a problem in the first half likely would not be a problem in the second half. I can't tell you how much fun that is when it's the head coach of the team that you care about. And that's what happened. But I've talked about the GM part of this. I mean, the gm, Belichick, the GM cost Belichick the head coach his job because it was ugly for years, man. I was going through it again this morning because I remember years and years ago when I was still thinking, working with Van Pelt, like we started to point it out a little bit, being like, this is a bad draft class and this class is bad and we all know, like with the receivers and all that kind of stuff. But I was going through like some of those second and third rounders where you need a couple of those guys to hit, you need those mid rounders in the NFL draft to hit so that you have depth and you're developing your own guys. Because we assume Belichick not just a great coach, but great at developing this stuff, but there's just so many lean, lean years that then you go back a couple years ago in free agency, and then Belichick had to do something that was the antithesis of how he wanted to team build is he had a dip in a free agency, start spending all of this money. And I remember one year they had the highest combined Cap, hit at receiver, tight end combined. And I doubt any of you can even name who those guys were. Certainly not the receivers, maybe a couple of the tight ends. But he had been so bad at drafting, he didn't even want to resign any of the guys he drafted. And if you go through some of those draft records, and I'm talking like the second and third round guys, like a second rounder that's flipped for a seventh three years later, the second rounder that doesn't get a contract anywhere else, the second rounder that's completely out of football, the second rounder they drafted and they're already trading two years later. There's a lot of those guys in the list. So there's certainly with the way it ended in New England, hesitation, because you go, he might be the great coach, but can he run our entire organization? And then of course, there's always the Brady thing. You want to get ahead of Brady. You want to say, I want to get in front of this before it gets a little too ridiculous. Okay, all right, fine. Because again, New England was the only Belichick, that combination, the only franchise probably in NFL history with that dynamic that ever say, no, Brady, that's fine, you can go somewhere else and by the way, win another Super Bowl. If you wanted to do those things, fine. But what was the backup plan? Cam Newton hanging around with nowhere else to sign for 1.75 million and then Mac Jones. So I think the personality, I think the track record of the front office obviously dinging him, but not in college football. Right? Because why should any of that matter? Is it an evaluation thing? And again, we're talking about Bill Belichick here. There are times when he talks about football where I'm like, do I understand anything about this game that I watched like 40 years? And maybe the recruiting part that people are worried about, which I think is totally fair to wonder, like, how is he going to handle recruiting with today's athlete where these guys are verbally committing and then flipping non stop and just all the nonsense that goes along with it, which again, I don't really criticize the kid because who cares? They've been exploited for years. But old school Belichick, is he going to be into that? Is he going to be into the nil part of the transfer portal? I mean, the nil stuff, a lot of that stuff sells, just delegated anyway, so it's not like the head coach is sitting there writing out checks, going like, 20 for you, 20 for you. Right? So I think some of that can be insulated from Bill having to worry about that all the time. But when it comes to recruiting and evaluating a lot of stuff, I can't imagine Bill watching high school football with his staff and not being able to figure out who is good or who is not good for his system. North Carolina has always felt like the sleeping giant in college football. Like, can't they get it right? I know it's not. Maybe this is bum Clemson fans out, but if Clemson can at one point reach national title contender status and win a couple national titles, can't UNC at least win an acc? I don't think that's a stretch. If you look at the recruiting databases and look at stuff by state like North Carolina, if I say top 10, that's a little misleading. I would say they're depending on who you want to look at, who you trust, like in that 10 + range. As far as states with high school talent going into D1 program programs. So that make a lot of sense. I mean, it's an awesome town, it's an awesome history. There's a real selling point. North Carolina is cool in a way. Very few colleges compare as well in the cool part of this. So. And really, what's worse, talking to high school kids and trying to recruit them and deal with all that bullshit that you have an advantage of just knowing it's ahead of time, like, you know how that you're like, this is going to be tough, it's going to be challenging. It might not be a lot of fun, but at least I know these things ahead of time. And I think that actually can be. Maybe it's not an advantage, but it, it desensitizes. Yeah, I think, I think you're just going to have more calluses built up for it ahead of time, knowing how ridiculous all that recruiting stuff can be. But is that worse than talking to NFL owners that are wondering why you did or didn't go for it on fourth down? Because it didn't seem like Bill really loved the ownership part in any of his travels throughout the work on Sunday. I also wonder what he's going to be like with the media. Is there a more affable Bill? Is that what we're going to see? Are we going to see somebody who like, okay, maybe I can't be the way I was in Foxboro all that time. We know that in the beginning, right? In the beginning, he's going to be awesome, friendly, ready to go. And you know, Bill, it wasn't that he was a bully or didn't respect Anybody, I mean, you could accuse him of those things. It didn't bother me as a media person. It wasn't like I was fighting for my media brethren. I just felt like there was kind of like a human decency thing where I was like, does it have to be like this? But at the same time, as I've mentioned numerous times, I respected the fact that he never was going to let noise be a factor with his organization. He was never going to allow any of the stuff that happened with the media, any of the negativity leak in and get in the way of impacting whether or not they could win a football game. And that part, you may not love it, but I kind of respect it. When you look at all of these drama filled organizations where every week it's something else, it's something else stupid. It's, it's a misunderstanding, it's a quote, it's all this. And he's like, I am going to eliminate all of that. That's not going to happen here. I like the fact that he's going to get his son involved because clearly the relationship between Bill and his father is something that meant a lot to him and is celebrated. And maybe he's just trying to recreate that on the fly with his son, who I would tell you a lot of people think is really good as a defensive coach. And I think there's some numbers that would back that up. Going back to last year's unit with a team that wasn't exactly stacked, I don't know if the coach in waiting thing makes any sense anymore. That was all the rage in college football there for years. Will Muschamp, Texas. Joker Phillips, Kentucky. James Franklin, MD. We don't hear about the coach in waiting all that. Here's how coach and waiting works. You have to retire and have everything be awesome and then everybody think that the coach in waiting is an awesome recruiter. So look, does build the college football mean. This is another one too. Just build a college football mean that the college football transition to the NFL means that college football is not dead. Because we had a lot of people claiming that last year when Jeff Halfley left his head coach of Austin College to go to Green Bay, becomes defensive coordinator Liam Cohen, deciding to leave Kentucky after just one year in college as the OC there to become the OC of Tampa Bay. Remember that? So maybe this is with Belichick, the greatest of all time going to college. An argument that college football is not at death's door, but it's a win. This is an all time introductory press conference win. Everybody's smiling. If you're North Carolina, if you're running that athletic department and Bill Belichick is telling you this is how he wants to do it and he wants to do it here with the family history going back to his father in the 50s, then that is a no brainer hire. You could do it a different way. You could worry about his age, you could worry about him being a little outdated, you could even worry about the personality and what that's going to be like with college media. But it's an all time win, an impossible thing, an impossible option to probably say no to. And I am going to be looking forward to seeing how he handles it because if they win, does he become more like Foxboro Bill? Or if he loses they become more like Foxboro Bill because Chapel Hill Bill is going to be fun in the beginning. Sometimes in basketball, 30 points could be worth more than 30 points and now you can get a 30% profit boost from the Ringer with FanDuels 30 on 30 during Friday's NBA action. 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