The chancellor clearly isn't happy with what's gone on.
As noted many times now, it's unfortunate that North Carolina has put itself in the position it is over the past two years with head coach Bill Belichick.
Not to say that hiring Belichick was the wrong idea or that it shouldn't have happened, but the past two seasons obviously haven't gone as planned, and there's really no way to debate that.
As for some of the unfortunate things that we've seen happen, there's now an internal investigation into the football program, perhaps the biggest issue of them all. Speaking to reporters about what's going on, university officials have said some of the right things, and that's a step in the right direction.
North Carolina has obviously tried to get to the bottom of this, firing multiple staff members and doing some other things that needed to be done.
As for how the school feels about things, it's promising to hear higher-ups within the university say the things they have.
“We’re disappointed that we’re talking about this,” North Carolina chancellor Lee Roberts said, according to WRAL, H/T The Athletic.
“But nobody made us do an investigation. Nobody made us hire an external firm. Nobody made us reveal the existence of an investigation, but we did it because we care about the conduct standards of the football program, and we’re continuing to put in place policies and training and monitoring to make sure that the standards we expect of the football program are being adhered to.”
One important word there, “standards,” points to something North Carolina has not met in its football program over the past two years under Belichick. One can make a strong argument that things were much better before Belichick, and it wouldn't be wrong to say that.
Whether we look at how the team has played, the things that have happened with him as the head coach, or everything in between, there's absolutely no debate that Belichick and his coaching staff just haven't done a good enough job of putting these kids in a position to succeed from top to bottom, and that's wrong to do.
