UNC: Brandon Walker Has Harsh Words for Bill Belichick

Some college football analysts are out on the Bill Belichick experiment at North Carolina after just one bad season.

Josh Pate thinks UNC will make a coaching change soon, and could come before the end of the year. 

During an episode of "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on Thursday his guest, Brandon Walker, had harsh words for the situation at North Carolina with Belichick, saying the spectacle of the football team more resembles a zoo than a college program.

"Not a whole lot of us are really just shining a light on this thing," Walker said. "We're not scared of him, but we're almost like bemused like you're walking by an animal at the zoo and you know this animal is seeing better days and you're like, let's just come on kids, let's just go over here.

"There's other animals in Norman and Austin and everything. Let's let them, they're clearly not feeding this one.”

Pate thinks North Carolina should have never hired Belichick to begin with, as the program had a chance to bring in quarterback Darian Mensah and Jon Sumrall. (At the time, Sumrall, now the head coach of Florida, had not led Tulane to the College Football Playoff.)

Walker thought UNC was justified in taking a gamble on Belichick, though he called the six-time Super Bowl-winning coach of the New England Patriots a "neutered version of himself" in Chapel Hill.

"As a sports consumer wanted to see how he would react in the world of college football, because college football coaches have to go through so much more BS and so much more crap than NFL coaches, and he couldn't handle the BS of the NFL," Walker said.

"When he would show up to a press conference, mad and angry. Can you imagine when these beat writers that cover for 8,000 people in some college town come up to him, he's going to eat them alive?

"I thought that's what I was looking forward to. I was looking forward, but he is not that. He is a neutered version of himself.”

Belichick and UNC will open their regular season against TCU on Aug. 29 in Dublin, Ireland. The game could be consequential to Belichick turning the narrative around in Year 2.