Bill Belichick told The Wall Street Journal that claims about Jordon Hudson acting as UNC football's general manager are "so ridiculous" to him.
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Belichick denies his girlfriend runs UNC football, days after his own son quit running its defense.
Hot Mic Moment
somebody find this network's business desk: a public university just paid a football coach ten million dollars to go on the record insisting his own household isn't running personnel. Get sports off this story. Get whoever covers state funding for higher education.
Gushis side
North Carolina opened the season as an underdog, Bill Belichick's Tar Heels installed at fourteen points behind TCU for the Week 0 kickoff in Dublin, a number this reporter found almost charitable.
Against that spread the Heels nearly delivered, and by August 29th Fox News credited Belichick with finally giving the program "a pulse" — high praise for a man now obligated to earn a ten-million-dollar paycheck, off-field issues and a brutal schedule looming over the rest of the season.
On September 4th, general manager Michael Lombardi resigned less than a full year into Bill Belichick's second season running the program, the first hinge this reporter watched swing loose.
That same afternoon, this reporter is reliably informed, the Post broke word UNC's internal probe had turned toward Steve Belichick himself, the defensive coordinator, examining potential drug use among his players.
Eight days after that report, on September 12th, Steve Belichick resigned as defensive coordinator — the program's third departure this season, arriving the same day a fine young lady named Jordon Hudson took her seat on UNC's sideline for the home opener win over East Tennessee State.
Which brings this reporter to where Bill Belichick sat down with Sports Illustrated to explain that no, that girl watching from the sideline is not, in point of fact, running his football program.
Trudyher side
Nine points, not fourteen. Fox's own best-bet piece, dated August 28th, had UNC nine points back before either roster set foot in Ireland.
Try weeks, not a year — that same September 4th Fox story says "weeks into" the second season, not months of it.
The Post's own byline reads September 3rd — one full day before Lombardi's resignation, not that same afternoon of it. The probe found Steve Belichick before the program lost its GM, not after.
Nine days, not eight — September 3rd to September 12th, count it yourself. And "fine young lady" can retire with the box score; she's twenty-five, and she's Bill Belichick's girlfriend, not a mascot.
Wall Street Journal, not Sports Illustrated — it's right there in the Fox News writeup. And she has a name, Gus: Jordon Hudson. Say it.
Take the nap, sugar — you're supposed to be calling a football score, not the state budget. But yes, you're right for once: Fox News put that figure at ten million dollars in its August 29th story, on a public university's payroll.
“Three staffers gone in nine days, and the head coach's big press moment is defending his girlfriend's job title — that tells you where the attention's pointed. He's pulling ten million dollars at a public university while the culture probe pushes his own son out the door, and the cameras land on a twenty-five-year-old's sideline seat instead. Watch who they protect and who takes the fall.”
“Look, all Bill Belichick did was tell the Wall Street Journal the obvious — a twenty-five-year-old on the sideline is not a front-office hire, that's not some scandal, that's — did I just defend a personnel chart I can't actually describe? Anyway, the team nearly beat TCU in Dublin, that's the real story here.”
Earlier in this story
- North Carolina closes football culture probe the same week its third coach resigns. By Gus · the matinee edition, 17 September 2026
The receipts
· Jordon Hudson emerges to join Bill Belichick, UNC on sideline for home opener win from the morgue, 12 Sep 2026
· Bill Belichick finally provides UNC with a pulse, but now he has to earn that $10 million paycheck from the morgue, 29 Aug 2026
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front. The byline is a pen name for a column drafted by a machine and checked by the editor: how this is made.