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A Bill Belichick assistant coach at North Carolina has been suspended
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Published October 7, 2025 08:48 PM
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It’s going from worse to clusterfudge in Chapel Hill.
Bruce Feldman of TheAthletic.com reports that one of North Carolina coach Bill Belichick’s assistants has been suspended.
That punishment has been imposed on first-year secondary coach and recruiting analyst Armond Hawkins, who came to UNC with defensive coordinator Steve Belichick from Washington.
Hawkins, per the report, provided extra benefits by giving a player’s family members sideline passes to a game. (Given the way the Tar Heels have been playing, is that really a “benefit”?)
Feldman doesn’t mention whether and to what extent Belichick knew about the extra benefits. It’s an allegation that lands in the general neighborhood of the kind of thing that could potentially lay the foundation for a termination of Belichick’s contract for cause — especially if the basis for the suspension wasn’t an isolated occurrence.
Rating: 5