The situation is “making people nervous” at North Carolina, per Florio, including the athletic director and ACC president, concerned that Belichick could be biding time to see if an offer to return to the NFL shows up later in the game after there was little interest in the 72-year-old so far, according to Florio.

Belichick famously spurned the New York Jets after he was named Bill Parcells’s successor. His tenure lasted less than 24 hours after he wrote his resignation on a napkin and jumped ship to take over the New England Patriots. This move paid off handsomely.

A month into the Bill Belichick era at North Carolina, the football program's general manager is already having to ease worries about the pace at which