UNC football didn’t fire Bill Belichick, but don’t think that it won’t | Opinion

There’s one way out of this for Bill Belichick. Keep winning. Win so much that his employer can’t stomach the thought of firing him. Beat Clemson. Beat Pittsburgh. Beat Duke.

Better yet, beat Notre Dame, too, or come darn close to it, anyway.

Do all that, and a sterling record makes a little thing like an internal investigation, the resignations of two top lieutenants, and a “BANniversary” just sort of fade into the background. Nothing trumps winning.

Universities regularly stomach — and even celebrate — drama-inducing winners. (Consider Lane Kiffin’s tenure at Mississippi.) Winning might not cure all, but it cures a lot.

Drama-inducing losers get fired, and the lawyers can sort out the buyout figures.

If UNC wanted Belichick out now, he’d be out now. The university’s statement after concluding its internal investigation into the football program's culture and climate reads like an employer with an open mind to giving Beli Ball one last shot.

Although the university stated “certain individuals demonstrated a disregard for Carolina’s values and standards of conduct,” it connected no dots to the head coach himself. In fact, the statement gave Belichick some cover by including language that the investigation did not uncover “a systemic…

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