{"id":137453,"date":"2024-12-15T22:17:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137453"},"modified":"2024-12-15T22:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T15:17:51","slug":"if-bill-belichick-didnt-come-here-to-leave-why-is-his-buyout-so-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137453","title":{"rendered":"If Bill Belichick &#8220;didn&#8217;t come here to leave,&#8221; why is his buyout so low?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>During his introductory press conference at Chapel Hill, new Tar Heels head coach Bill Belichick was asked whether he\u2019d jump back to the NFL after a year or two in college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/will-bill-belichick-bolt-unc-for-the-nfl-i-didnt-come-here-to-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I didn\u2019t come here to leave<\/a><\/span>,\u201d Belichick said, to applause in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fact that it would have been impossible in that setting to say, \u201cI\u2019d love to,\u201d actions <i>always<\/i> speak louder than words. And the only action that matters in this case is the negotiation of his contract with UNC.<\/p>\n<p>Belichick negotiated a buyout that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/full-bill-belichick-contract-details-emerge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drops from $10 million to $1 million on June 1, 2025<\/a><\/span>. That puts him in play for the 2026 hiring cycle, if anyone from the NFL wants to hire him.<\/p>\n<p>For now, no one does. Right or wrong, it\u2019s crickets for Belichick from pro football.<\/p>\n<p>People in Belichick\u2019s orbit are perplexed. Others in league circles point to the lack of interest in Belichick as proof that, as one source estimated, two thirds of all NFL owners don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. Words like \u201cdysfunctional,\u201d \u201carrogant,\u201d and \u201cclueless\u201d are used. And rightfully so, in more than a few cases.<\/p>\n<p>Two tests must be passed to get a license to drive a car. None must be passed to own an NFL team. The requirements are: (1) have enough money to buy it; or (2) be the one who inherits it when the current owner croaks.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, in a move that was far less <i>Woodward and Bernstein<\/i> than it was <i>Belichick and Lombardi<\/i>, word emerged on Saturday that Belichick reached out to the Jets, after the coaching vacancy there arose. It surely wasn\u2019t about Belichick wanting to coach the Jets. It surely wasn\u2019t simple due diligence; if so, where\u2019s the report that he called the Bears and the Saints? (Then again, maybe he hasn\u2019t decided to leak it yet.) <\/p>\n<p>This was about, in my own assessment, one thing. Making a bet that the Jets will continue to stink, and planting a flag for the world to see that the Jets could have had the greatest coach in football history, and that owner Woody Johnson was too stupid to see it.<\/p>\n<p>It all adds up to Belichick keeping himself in play for an NFL job. While it\u2019s highly unlikely that he\u2019d leave before he coaches his first game for UNC, the June 1, 2025 date on which the buyout drops by an order of magnitude wasn\u2019t the product of a random calendar generator. At that point, he can walk away for a mere million bucks.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, if a coach abruptly retires, resigns, or is fired as of June 1, Belichick could be lured away from UNC for only $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>That term is there not because Carolina wanted it. Belichick wanted it. He could have gotten something else through the contract talks, if for example the buyout had remained at $10 million for two or three or four years.<\/p>\n<p> In the context of billion-dollar football, a million bucks is a mildly sour belch, at worst. Belichick \u2014 who does everything deliberately and strategically \u2014 put that term in there. The message is clear: If\/when an NFL owner smarter than Woody Johnson wants to win games, that owner will call me. <\/p>\n<p>The buyout isn\u2019t a roadblock to such a move. 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